So tonight I was watching Survivor and the character called “Shambo” from the purple team started dissing her teammates from the yellow team for practicing yoga. Her gripe? They should have been spending their time collecting firewood, hauling water and looking for food. But instead, they were practicing yoga. (I highly doubt they practiced yoga … Continue reading Yoga Gets Dissed on “Survivor.”
Author: Kath Thompson
Writer, yoga teacher, lover of sunny days, long walks, good coffee, and stimulating conversations.
A Little Nibble of Silence
Official “Kath-led Morning Yoga” has now ended for the year and will return with the rains and the robins in April. But some of us still get up at the butt-crack of dawn on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings to practice Ashtanga. Nobody teaches it, we just DO IT. Christine is the expert, so we … Continue reading A Little Nibble of Silence
Commit to Something
“If you are really interested in finding out…” --Toni Packer When I was sitting meditation retreats regularly at Springwater Center back in the 80s and early 90s, I used to have the same discussion, over and over again, with Toni Packer (the resident wise woman there) about how hard it was to sustain my meditation … Continue reading Commit to Something
Prime Time
Everyone has their “prime time.” Mine is before lunch. It’s my best (really my only) truly creative time. After lunch? I am toast, done, finished. And after dinner? Really bad. Catatonic almost. But it’s often after dinner that I write these posts. Today I had a rockin’ day with my journal and my pen, a … Continue reading Prime Time
Nothing Runs Like A Deer(e)
Except maybe me, through the woods. Today I did the Ives Run Trail Challenge (4 miles) which, after last weekend’s Dam Half Marathon (13 miles) should have felt like a cakewalk, but didn’t. It’s weird. This is how my mind works: If I know it’s a 13 mile run, I get tired at mile 11. … Continue reading Nothing Runs Like A Deer(e)
100 New Recipes, #2
I took out the slow cooker today. (Must be fall, huh?) Tonight I needed to rush home from yoga and be finished eating by 7 PM because tomorrow I am having the Community Diagnostic Blood Analysis done. For a mere $49 I will allow a fledgling phlebotomist to poke me about 17 times in the … Continue reading 100 New Recipes, #2
The Real Story
So here is the real story . I’ve been taking the advice of Chris Brogan in his great book Trust Agents and stepping out of the safety of “Lurker-ville “ What this means is that I am blogging more myself, and I'm starting to comment on blogs I enjoy, telling the authors what I like, … Continue reading The Real Story
Yeah, I’m a Fan Girl
Today I got an email from Steven Pressfield’s publicist. Seems I’ve been foisting The War of Art on all my friends so relentlessly and with such vigor and over-the-top-ness, that news of all this foisting has finally reached Steven’s “people,” and they wrote, begging, in the name of all my friends, and all that’s decent, … Continue reading Yeah, I’m a Fan Girl
Water Resistant
I have made the “Drink More Water” resolution every New Year’s Eve for at least the past 20 years. No lie. I go on week-long streaks of water-drinking, then revert back to “camel” mode where I don’t drink much of anything (except my morning coffee) for months on end. Even though Tim wrote it explicitly … Continue reading Water Resistant
On The Rocks
I am currently drinking an electrolyte replenishment drink called “Zenergize.” I have a blood blister on the bottom of my left big toe. I am walking down the steps one at time, verrry slooowly whispering, “Ouch, ouch, shit, ouch.” I got home from the Dam Half Trail Challenge yesterday afternoon, dropped my bag of smelly … Continue reading On The Rocks
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