This is one of my favourite teachings. It comes from Pema Chödrön’s compilation book, Comfortable with Uncertainty. It is a teaching that I like to read at the beginning of a class, prior to teaching ujayyi and beginning asana. I am posting it here that all may benefit.
Entries from February 2009
February 19, 2009
Mithya – the Dependant Reality: Thread 3
Another thread of the complex adaptive system that is my life is anthropology. I have been a paid anthropologist for twelve years. I have invested many years of study and effort in my career, and as I have written before, have an incredibly deep attachment to being an anthropologist.
I have had some really bad years [...]
February 18, 2009
Mithya – the Dependant Reality: Thread 2
I view my life as a complex adaptive system (CAS), a series of nested feedback loops. Some appear complete in themselves, but all are interrelated: anthropology, family, gym, yoga, plus those other parts of my life I don’t write much about here such as Advaita, camping, bushwalking, geocaching, and birdwatching. What happens in one part [...]
February 15, 2009
Mithya, the Dependant Reality: Thread 1
Regular readers of this blog will know that late last year, I undertook a Level 1 Teacher Training. I was far from comfortable or happy with the course.
In fact, I came away reeling. This course challenged everything I felt, experienced and understood about yoga: it was inauthentic, more about pumping out asana teachers than anything [...]
February 11, 2009
Why am I Blogging About Yoga?
I’m feeling more than a little disillusioned with blogging. Especially blogging about yoga and related subjects.
There’s some angsty-antsy stuff out there in the blogging world at the moment.
Reading and replying opens one up for hurt or invites the uninvited in many forms.
I am thinking about taking the blog down and returning to nothing.
I don’t [...]
February 4, 2009
Tips for Applying for Positions in Applied Anthropology
I am currently wading through a number of applications and CVs for a vacancy in the agency where I work. I’ve done this a number of times now, and there are a few things that apparently intelligent and highly qualified applicants often do that never cease to amaze me. I’m talking about mistakes [...]
