Tag Archives: holding

I have started a training in Yin Yoga, after one in Vinyasa. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, let me give a brief and simplistic explanation that will anger the advocates of complexity (including myself): Vinyasa is centered around a “flowy”, dynamic practice, while Yin is based on holding poses for longer. LookingContinue reading “Hold that thought”

Let’s be honest: how silly and irrational are horoscopes? Imagine believing star signs have any meaning other than the one we arbitrarily attach to them, and now imagine me really saying this and meaning it. Boom, did I trick you into keep reading? Maybe, but only for less than a paragraph. Now that you’re here,Continue reading “Meeting in which middle?”

I’ve had some muscle tension lately. There’s this spot on my back that loyally starts hurting when my mind’s too heavy. Sometimes I just get pain out of being ruthless, others by stretching too hard, but this is really the signature pain of worries. Then there has been rumination about taxes and things to do.Continue reading “Healing to make space”

I’m sure you can picture this scene with uncanny precision: you’re entering a room, someone is leaving it, and at the door you engage in the dance of left-right-left to let each other pass, but it becomes increasingly harder the more you try to predict the other person’s movement, because they are also predicting yours,Continue reading “Eyes on you”

No matter how many times we’ve heard (or maybe you’re hearing it now for the first time?) that our cells renew on average every decade, making us for the most part a different person multiple times in a lifetime, we are still very attached to the idea of a stable, firm self. It’s partly comforting,Continue reading “A glimpse of a maze”

There’s something paradoxical about telling someone to “have fun!”, the same way it’s ironic to invite them to “relax!” (exclamation mark included). It might replace, at times, creating the conditions necessary to do those things, and delegate that to an encouragement. I might be on the sofa snacking chips, with no interest in entertaining you,Continue reading ““Have fun!””

One of my favorite activities is dancing. I interpret that in the broadest way possible, from tapping with my foot on the table while music is playing, to mimicking the moves of over-the-top entertainers. In between, there is going to places with live music or DJ sets (preferably during the day, outside, in the sun)Continue reading “You are your audience”

“Can you fill up a glass that has holes?” We have all invested energies in something, hoping for a specific result while getting a different one over and over. The human mind has an impeccable way to optimize its energies to attain certain results. This might be hard to imagine if you constantly end upContinue reading “Is there snow at the beach?”

People change for two reasons: Both are not enough to change, but at least one is necessary. Deep, self-sustaining, genuine change is not (just) about developing new habits — this is helpful to live a better life, but doesn’t have a long-lasting impact if it’s not supported by valid reasons.Authentic change requires making a betContinue reading “May you exasperate yourself”