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This is a recording of a class I taught as an opening class to the winter Foundation Training series of 2024. I talk about why I have decided to start the 2024 winter courses with a class purely on self-regulation tools before getting into any of the physical practices. I share personal stories of self-regulation in some heated moments, all about each practice, and how these practices can really increase our window of tolerance, he...

This is a recording of a class I taught as an opening class to the winter Foundation Training series of 2024. This episode starts with the class settling in and getting all the comfy blankets and supplies out to really sink in together. Then I talk about why I have decided to start the 2024 winter courses with a class purely on self-regulation tools before getting into any of the physical practices. I share personal stories of self...

In this podcast I link our ability to let go with our relationship to uncertainty and our sense of self worth. 

1. Where we are in the cycle of 5 elements
2. Uncertainty
3. The nightmare
4. Bringing consciousness to the unconscious
5. Worry
6. Fear and anxiety
7. Becoming present
8. Opening up to possibility
9. Letting go
10. Past Failures, rejections, abandonment
11. Value
12. Good enough
13. Re-defining failing
14. Re-defining winning
15. Kobayashi Maru
16. Open up to next layer...

TRANSFORMING RESISTANCE TO STABILITY:

In this podcast I talk about the opportunity inside of feeling resistance. How resistance can be a door opening instead of a door closing.

• The role of the nervous system
• The breath
• Creating a bullet-proof nervous system
• The process of training ourselves to allow and to relax into discomfort
• Working with fear. The parts of ourselves... the part that is sort of hysterical and the other part ...

IN THIS PODCAST I TALK ABOUT:

– Our difficulties are our best teachers, but only if we know how to learn from them. 

– Wounding in Childhood, being disliked

– Conscious engagement with our pain

– The heart and the mind

– How to use experience as fodder for the work

– Taking the lessons from our practice out into life

– Resistance, preferences, acceptance, allowance, process & the pillars of practice

– Enduring the long journey

– Op...

DISEASE: IT'S AN INSIDE JOB.

In this podcast I talk about realizing that the locus of control is on the inside and how we can affect our health and life through emotions /  internal conditions. I explore how we can affect things like cancer, disease, and sickness through emotional processes by linking emotions to cellular health. I explore the importance of developing a practice and a process to develop a relationship with our emot...

In this Podcast: 

1. Feelings have a beginning, middle, and an end.
2. Exhaustion can come from a feeling that hasn't been fully felt.
3. Our body is our unconscious, any good practice will reveal what is there. 
4. When the unconscious comes up to the surface it is an opportunity for healing.
5. We often experience resistance to feeling this stuff and develop strategies to avoid it.
6. We can also develop a process of being in engagement with ...

CRISIS AS OPPORTUNITY: 

In this episode I talk about working with resistance in a way that can put us in touch with the feelings that keep us stuck and feeling dead in our lives. These feelings can keep us stuck in suffering or they can be a flood gate into coming alive. Learning to feel things we "don't want to feel" can put us in touch with our truth and living in alignment with ourselves. 

In the Chinese language the word for cr...

In this podcast I talk about developing the kind of strength that makes us consistent, dependable, and gives us integrity as human beings. It is the strength to keep on keeping on. It involves mastery as well as stability. You become like a rock or a mountain. You feel grounded in the world because you are grounded in your own self. A quality that indicates this in your life is the presence of rhythm, daily rhythm. The power that c...

THE PATH OF THE WARRIOR: 

In this podcast I bring the work of Foundation Training for Posture together with Chogyam Trungpa's work on The Sacred Path of the Warrior. Talking: Posture, Breath, Science, Emotions, and Being a Fully Human Being

• Make a transformation or die
• Vipassana 10-Day silent meditation retreat life lesson
• Foundation Training with Eric Goodman
• The impacts of compression on the body
• Connecting posture to physic...

CHANGE AND COMMITMENT: GOING BEYOND GOOD ENOUGH, VALUE, WORTH, RIGHT & WRONG

IN THIS PODCAST:

• GIVING YOURSELF THE SPACE TO GO THROUGH CHANGE
• INTROVERSION & EXTROVERSION
• IT GETS SO BAD WE OPEN UP TO MAKING A CHANGE
• CLINGING TO SAFETY BUT BEING DEAD INSIDE
• VULNERABILITY
• INITIAL STAGES OF MAKING A CHANGE
• COMMITTMENT
• WHY MAKE A COMMITMENT
• THE ISSUES THAT ARISE WHEN WE COMMIT
• EMPOWERMENT VERSES DISEMPOWERMENT
• BELIEFS
• WISDOM
• METAL...

This podcast covers:

• Knee Dislocation
• The ways we get stuck
• Getting clear on intention
• Working with pain
• Trusting yourself more than "experts"
• Working with Despair
• Recovery capacity greatly increases when moving forward with heart
• "Demon Voices"
• Recognizing it in ourself
• Gaining capacity to work with bigger and bigger traumas
• Trauma
• Letting Go
• Attachment / Aversion
• The Leg Chakras
• Taking The Leap
• Opening to Mystery
• Yoga Sutra ...

LIFE TAKES PRACTICE: SUTRA 1.5

THIS PODCAST COVERS: 

• Sutra 1.5: vrtayah pancatayya klistaklishta
• There are 5 states of mind, some create suffering and some are born of insight and they culminate in liberation
• Definitions of each sanskrit word
• Specific feelings that tell us we are either using detrimental or liberating thought patterns
• The Five Klesas, from which all the detrimental mind states come from
• The Five Hinderances ...