By the way, one of the most profound things said to me in recent years was by this artist we had the chance of meeting a few years back when picking up a painting. He was finishing his degree and going back to school in his forties. He was reflecting on the students in the…
Category: Process
martial arts rant
I love exploring martial arts. Love doing it, seeing it, learning about it, reading about it, etc. and then every so often I read comments that make my blood boil. About the utility of Move X or Style Y, etc. I hate it. It takes all the fun out of it for me. I realize…
Modifications to the Kung Fu Boot Camp Workout
Okay, so something totally amazing happened… Someone actually tried my workout out and gave me feedback!! WHAT. So, obviously, I’m excited about that because she gave really great feedback too. Here’s the revised Kung Fu Boot Camp Workout with these modifications in mind. Warm-Up Stretch — hold with micro extensions where possible for 3 breaths…
Maybe I Said Too Much!
So, in my last post, I was just having some fun and thinking, “oh hey, you could do a little 10 minute tiger-inspired internal practice too”, so I made one up. It’s towards the bottom of the post. Then, I was musing that I feel like you could practice this after a hard workout, now…
My “draft” Kung Fu Bootcamp workout
I’ve been my own Guinea pig lately with some of the martial arts based classes I’ve been constructing. So far it’s been going well and I have a rough template for each one I want to present to beginner audiences with broad experience with fitness and perhaps limited exposure to martial arts. The program I…
teaching moment pt 2
So using my martial arts background, I’ve come up with 4 classes I can teach to absolute beginners in a corporate/one-off “let’s just have fun, do something new and healthy” kind of setting. I tested out 2 of the 4 classes on myself this week —breathing/meditation/qi gong and stretching/yoga— and feel confident about my ability…
teaching moments
Reflecting on teaching by thinking of my most recent tai chi class.
DIY
Attempting to make body products using natural ingredients
Poetic License
So the challenges do far… Well, due to life circumstances, I scrapped the screenwriting challenge. I gotta do it one year though. I just have more poetry than narrative story in my head right now. But the poetry challenge?! If you have been reading, I’m sure you can see the result. The prompts are a…
challenge
I started a couple challenges. One is a 30 day poetry challenge with the Escapery. Myself and other writers get a prompt a day to spark some inspiration for a raw, unedited, unfiltered poem. Ooh! My favorite kind to write! I don’t know why or how, but a couple years ago, I started this thing…
The Dynamics of Groove 