Building Compassion
April 23 How do you express your compassion? – Through my voice. Volume and tone can have a powerful effect. – Being calm & centered in yourself. Then you …
When Our Students Say ‘I Can’t’
April 16 What to say (do or feel) when our students believe that they lack the ‘appropriate’ range of motion and say that they’ll never be able to do …
Teaching Poses We Cannot Yet Do?
April 9 Do we need to be able to do every yoga pose that we teach? * One teacher said that she mostly avoids teaching the poses that she …
Does Therapeutic = Feel Good?
April 2 If something is therapeutic, does that mean it feels good? *One teacher said that she followed the ‘no pain no gain’ philosophy. If something is therapeutic, it …
Shine & Refine – Listening
Monday, March 26 Buddha said – (Anguttara Nikaya III 248): There are five advantages of listening to the dharma. What five? One hears things not heard before, clarifies things …
Paradoxes of Teaching
March 12, 2012 Paradoxes of Teaching: While we are all busy teaching, as teachers we seem to be starved for the time to practice ourselves. We teach, yet we …
Shine & Refine – Stay Connected
March 5, 2012 Ah, not be cut off, not through the slightest partition shut out from the law of the stars. The inner – what is it? if not …
Shine & Refine Feb 27, 2012
Do you listen to your inner voice? When? We want our students to listen to their inner selves. The only way to do that is to connect with our …
Shine & Refine Feb 6, 2012
Natalie Levin, who is starting a new course of study – the Jungian Seminar for Advanced Studies at the Jungian Institute of Philadelphia sent me this quote: “An understanding …
Shine & Refine Jan 30, 2012
The week of teachings with Geshe Michael Roach on the Bhagavad Gita has been intense. I have received so much valuable info. In pondering what to bring into my …