Structure
During classes you will be told to relax your shoulders, keep your spine straight, have your weight on your toes, bend your knees, keep your
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Practicality
Every technique we teach must be the best option in a given situation. If a technique is beautiful but doesn’t work that well, teach it
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Fluidity
The one thing in life that always seems to get its way is water. It will always find a way to the sea. Put a
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Inertia
It is so often the case that the most useful lessons (and, it appears, the hardest) are the simplest. In Yorkshire they say “If things
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Momentum
There are laws of motion in every area of life. Inertia and momentum are fundamental. It takes a lot of effort to get something started
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Live Now
One root of both depression and anxiety is where you live… Anything that requires your total focus on the present will distract you from other
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Unconscious Messages
Over the last few weeks I’ve had several similar conversations and when that happens the ideas involved invariably cause me to consider if a blog
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Feel the Fear and See the Beauty
I grew up at a time of international anxiety. When I left school in 79 the principal topic of conversation among my peers was, what
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Stress
What actually is STRESS? And how to reduce it. We hear so much talk about stress that you’d think we all knew what it was.
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Balance and Freedom
It is typical to understand many Zen masters as teaching that we should aim to be above such things as emotions. Taking everything in one’s
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