I just finished teaching an eight-week series entitled Mindful Health with a group of employees from Watertown Community Hospital. Â It was an amazing group of individuals. Â We talked about stress management, making changes, communications skills, letting go of negative thoughts, building confidence, and identifying strengths. Â The number one thing that people seemed to appreciate was [...]
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The 2010 Milwaukee Gathering Waters Festival is this weekend Saturday June 12th.  There is a ton to do at this festival.  I’ll be doing a gentle yoga demo at 1pm at the Invivo Wellness booth.  Come learn to kayak, take a bike tour, have your kids fitted for a bike helmet, fly a kite, or [...] In the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali it says… “The practice of concentration on a single subject [or the use of one technique] is the best way to prevent the obstacles and their accompaniments.” I was reading a review in the Outpost Exchange this morning about bread making. It was a review of a new cookbook that is supposed to make bread making super easy. Even the review made me tired and cranky. I DON”T BAKE BREAD! I am actually ashamed of this fact. I love the idea of rising dough. [...] I have been noticing lately that my little one can be calmed by any kind of music. I just press the musical toy next to her changing table and she’ll let me change her shirt without screaming and tears. I prefer this a great deal. It makes me think of pressing that “Easy Button” on [...] As fall progresses, we continue to harvest wonderful autumn vegetables and my thoughts have turned to holiday meals and gathering with family. Growing up my family always ate dinner together. We even took turns cooking for each other so my mom wouldn’t have to cook every night. By 11 I had my own night to plan [...] Last night many Milwaukee sports fans were glued to the TV set for the Packers/Vikings game. We were at a game-night party ourselves. I have married into Packers fandom but the truth is I am more interested in the snacks or even the commercials than the games. I was just not raised in a sport-loving [...] I heard a great interview on Speaking of Faith on NPR a few weeks ago. Stuart Brown, MD is the founder and director of the National Institute for Play. This organization is devoted to research and initiatives which promote play as a therapeutic and necessary part of life for both adults and children. Dr. Brown asserted [...] There is a series of commercials on TV these days where one person asks another person a question and they just keep spouting out random information that is loosely related to the words the other person just said. It’s a nice demonstration of the information overload that we experience in our modern world. As Uncle Ben [...] Recently I checked in on a friend’s website to see if he had posted any new articles. He is a tremendously talented and funny writer and for years I (and many others) have been begging him to take his talent more public. I am excited to report that he has done so but this means he doesn’t really have time to update his site. On a whim I clicked on a link to his professional work. I was shocked to read an article which described how he had recently moved after his house was broken into. [...] |
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