Meditations
Heart Healthy
Audio Version Yoga is designed to work all of your muscles rather than a particular group or type of muscle. And this includes your heart. Of course, movement works your heart as it pumps blood through your circulatory system. But that’s not all yoga does for the heart. Yogis, people who practice yoga, are known…
Read MoreActing Consciously
Audio Version Several years ago, I learned an important lesson about change management. Change can be threatening to many people and it evokes strong feelings often including anger. The important lesson I learned was that anger can actually be a grief response. Change, even welcomed change, often means we have to give up something which…
Read MorePaying Attention
Audio Version When I teach a yoga class or lead a workshop in Leadership Yoga, I have a usual way of beginning. Whether we are standing or in a seated position, we start as we began this series with our breath. The second component of the start of a yoga class is letting our breath…
Read MoreLeadership and Breathing
Audio Version This story belongs to Sharon Justice, former AVP and Dean of Students at UT Austin, my supervisor for almost eleven years, and my friend and mentor for many more years than that. She has told me often that one of the primary lessons of her experience as a new Dean came from a…
Read MoreYoga and breathing
Audio Version As we continue to explore the importance of breath this week, today we’ll look at the importance of the breath in yoga. Tomorrow, we’ll finish the week exploring the role of the breath in leadership. In the United States, we tend to focus on the physical aspects of yoga. Most people have seen…
Read MoreExhaling
Audio Version Photo by vincenzo di giorgi on Unsplash Yesterday I mentioned that science has something to teach us about breathing. We’ll explore that idea a bit further. When someone is stressed or anxious, we often suggest they take a deep breath. We instinctively know that this will help them calm down. And we watch…
Read MoreThe poetry of change
I first found this poem in a book called, Leading From Within – Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead. As the editors say it in their opening note, “Our invitation to these leaders was simple: take a moment away from the sharp-elbowed context in which you do your work, step outside the cycle of pressure…
Read MoreFinding Time, Keeping Quiet
Meditation for a Busy Day
Here’s a five minute mediation you can do in your office or any quiet place. Close your office door or put in your earbuds. Find a comfy chair. Hit play and enjoy.
Read More“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. “I don’t much care where—” said Alice. “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat. “—So long as I get somewhere,” Alice added as…
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