Learning Conversation

8 min Today's word is: Embodiment Today's Learning Practice is with Jen Bleier, a somatic educator. She offers up the perfect word! Embodiment. Join us in this exercise of practicing conversation on Learning Conversation. :-) Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word. Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of

38 min. Interview: Jen Bleier, Somatic Educator Maureen and Pierre interview Jen Bleier, friend and somatic educator. Trained in Gyrotonic, Gyrokinesis, Pilates, Somatic Experience practitioner, and small "d" dancer. Jen’s work spans different modalities, hence her self-description as a somatic educator. Jen said: “when you work with bodies, you can’t not work with emo

Response-ability training is an online educational program to provide people with knowledge and skills to respond to their experiences, as opposed to merely reactiving and over-reacting chronically and unconscoiously. When you can respond to what life presents you with regulation and mindfulness, you save yourself from chronic stress which makes you better and your relationships wi

5 min Today's word is: Happy Maureen references a documentry on Happy - 2012 movie. Is happy a good goal? Join the conversation. Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word. Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learning Conversation. If you want to practice with us by supplying a word and joining us: conta

Resource: Dr. Jordan B. Peterson Maureen begins the pod energized having just taught a yoga class. With over 175 published podcasts on resources, practices, discussions, interviews, reflections, we've somehow not talked about Dr. Jordan B. Peterson. Peterson is a pivotal figure in 'Learning Conversation,' not just for this podcast but for so many who have followed his lead in exa

5 min Today's word is: Suffering Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word. Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learning Conversation. If you want to practice with us by supplying a word and joining us: contact us through our websites. Landscapes for Learning YogaHEALS

24 min Maureen and Pierre discuss spiritual traditions of solitude versus the disaffectation of anxiety and isolation. Spiritual practices include: Jesus in the desert for 40 days. Thoreau “On Walden Pond.” Meditative practices. John Francis - not talking for 17 years. Modern disaffection include recent school shootings, which is on Maureen's mind as a former school teache

5 min Today's word is: Orange Color or fruit. Double espresso's and Pierre's got hop at the buzzer + one. Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word. Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learning Conversation. If you want to practice with us by supplying a word and joining us: contact us through our websit

15 min What does it mean to be fit? How do you stay fit? If you want to be fitter, how do you do that?What motivates you? Maureen found a gym that has been motivating her towards building strength and getting fitter. There are many elements in it and Pierre is curious. Maureen begins to explain Crossfit to Pierre, who starts to see the attraction of Crossfit in mind, body, and spi

21 min Jon Kabat- Zinn is today’s resource. Kabat-Zinn is a professor emeritus of the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He received a Ph.D. in molecular biology for MIT in 1971. He is one of the earlier people in the health field to recognize the adverse effects of stress on health. His book Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face St