Posts by Selfseeds
Selfseeds in Jaipur, India
What a privilege to share and experience Selfseeds with a group of enthusiastic, holistic lifestyle seekers in Jaipur, India. Â Presenting Selfseeds and hearing the feedback reminds me of just how much we share globally as individuals trying to implement a healthy, personally relevant lifestyle. Â Many of the participants practice yoga and meditation regularly, (it…
Read MoreIs It Juggling Or Balancing?
A well, respected woman CEO of a high profile business who had several children and a husband felt that life was a juggling act rather than a balancing act. Â She claimed that it was an elusive ideology to think that one would ever find balance and was therefor setting one’s self up for failure/fatigue…
Read MoreEmotions Got A Good Shaking Out
There is nothing better than moving to a foreign country to generate emotional overload and let’s make it a country that is very different than your own. Â In some ways, it felt like my emotions got a good shaking out, so that the extremes could emerge: Â children begging for money and giving magic shows with…
Read MoreHow Quiet Does It Need To Be To Meditate?
My ego use to think that I actually needed silent-quiet to meditate. Â Nice try ego, silent-quiet is more difficult to obtain than meditation for most of us. Â Meditation and stillness are found inside, so the work is to find your inward awareness in spite of the outer world. Â The ego loves to find any excuse…
Read MoreOld School Communication
Two or three times a week, I walk 4o minutes to the grocery store, so I see a lot of the same people sitting in front of their store fronts. Â We wave and greet each other even though I don’t speak the language and don’t often have a reason to do business with most of…
Read MorePathway For Selfseeds
A lot of personal transformation is an understatement right now from my spiritual seeking in India. Â Blogging for Waltzing Horses and Selfseeds has been lovely. Â One for the spiritual depth and the other for the physical reality. Â My motivation for moving to India and diving into a 6-8 hour meditation process at the feet of…
Read MoreInspirational or Overwhelmed?
A 100-year-old runner became the oldest person to complete a full-distance marathon when he finished the race in Toronto on Sunday. Indian-born Fauja Singh earned a spot in the Guinness World Book of Records for his accomplishment. It took Singh more than eight hours to cross the finish line – more than six hours after…
Read MoreLooking At Your Personal Building Blocks
How we move our weight through space is often overlooked. Â We are a body and we want to move from point A to point B. Â First on the list is we get there, but how often do we notice how we got there? Â When we don’t have impediments to our movement it is even easier…
Read MoreJust Keep Moving It
An interesting duality: Â the comfort/familiarity of a known workout routine so one can map personal changes and count on a schedule vs. the potential for boredom and the body challenge losing an optimum training opportunity. Â Where is the balance both mentally and physically? Â One of my first sports trainer’s was intense and he felt if…
Read More12 Styles of Yoga
I had no idea that there were so many styles of yoga. Â Constant learning and awareness for what options we have on the path. Â Yoga might not be your interest at all, but if it is, you might check out other styles to see if they inspire and aline more comprehensibly with your life process.…
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