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New alternative for sedentary desk work: the FitDesk
Since I’ve posted before on how prolonged sitting is unhealthy and how to counteract it, and I’ve promoted standing desks, I want to bring this to your attention (and thanks, Shelley Seale, for...
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12 ways to improve your health by sitting less (written while pedaling on a...
If you commute (usually sitting) to a desk job (mostly sitting) and then go home and watch television (sitting) and/or spend a lot of time on your computer (sitting), even if you manage to work in an...
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NPR covers the homemade treadmill desk
Just spotted this story on the NPR website: Can You Move It and Work It on a Treadmill Desk? The author cites an expert who says not to try to walk on the treadmill all day long. Instead, walk for a...
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Leaning into 2013: how to make meditation a near-daily pleasure.
I’ve been thinking a lot this December about what changes I’d like to make in 2013. In the past, I usually didn’t think much about it at all, and when I did, my thoughts on the matter all took place in...
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Note to self: remember this next time I get sick of myself
I will forget again how powerful this is. I will resist doing it, caught up in the whirl of thoughts. And I will get sick of myself again, and find my way back to this practice. Continue reading →
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Orienting to stillness, orienting to motion
I started this blog to document meditating every day in 2010. My blog posts got kind of boring and I ended up broadening the topic, but before the year ended, I had made some big decisions, changing my...
View ArticleWhat to bring to a vipassana course
Just got back home yesterday after taking my second 10-day vipassana course at Dhamma Siri, Kaufman, Texas. I reached new abilities to sense subtle sensations and found deeper stillness and inner...
View ArticleMorning download, 2.15.19
This business of being human requires courage and boundaries and discernment and trust, and a whole lot more...and that's what's coming up today. Continue reading →
View ArticleBoundary, no boundary
This morning’s Biodynamic Meditation went like this: 5 Bhastrika breaths. Settling into sitting posture, propped up in bed with a pillow at my back, legs crossed in sukhasana (sweet pose). Monkey mind....
View ArticleChanges over time from daily Biodynamic Meditation
Today’s Biodynamic Meditation was different. Radiance at my face from the start, after 5 physiological sighs. Tide moving up and down in my central energy channel. No stillpoint unless it was brief,...
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