Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how “power posing” –standing in a posture of confidence, […]
Archives for November 2012
5 Poses for Extra Energy
Thanksgiving has come and gone. I’m still recovering from a wonderful weekend celebration with family and a little (OK, a lot!) too much to eat. Yoga teachers across the country […]
What If Money Was No Object?
We teach the next generation to do as we do: to do things we don’t like doing in order to go on doing what we don’t like doing. This […]
The Case for a 21-Hour Work Week
To save the world–or really to even just make our personal lives better–we will need to work less. Time, like work, has become commodified, a recent legacy of industrial capitalism, […]
The Subtle Power of Networks
The late David Bohm pointed out the lost potential of quantum physics as he saw it being assimilated by a traditional and very mechanical mindset that wanted to make it another instrument […]
So, What Now? Five Racial Justice Thinkers Make Sense of the Election
There was less swagger, but arguably more urgency as millions of people headed to the polls this week to re-elect President Barack Obama. It wasn’t so much a test of […]
If Willard Had Won: on safety, wellness and love
It’s been two weeks since the election, and all is right in the world. Okay, so that isn’t remotely true with Israel once again bombing Gaza in a stunning display […]
Hope: The Key to Using the Brain Well for Poverty Reduction & Universal Welfare
The things that keep people caught in a cycle of poverty are not solely monetary. And getting out of that cycle is not necessarily about money either. Dr. Joseph LeDoux […]
Occupy the Dam | Brazil’s Indigenous Uprising
Wellness and being well extends beyond us to the earth. And, of course, what we do to the earth affects all of us. Dams are noted for their destruction of […]
newDharma Talk | The Gift of Fearlessness
Practice is about changing what we do in order to become who we are. Often, we start with boundless enthusiasm and optimism for our unfolding self, but as we run […]
november 2012
WEST COAST fearlessMeditation I | Practice of the Body CXC | Center for Transformative Change | Berkeley, CA Friday | December 7, 2012 | 7:00-9:30pm Register fearlessMeditation II | […]
Ancestral Pride at the BC Legislature | Warrior Up Or Get The Hell Out of the Way!
In this video Gaaiwna Crow and Queen Sacheen speak bluntly about the problems facing Native American and non-Native American folks. They call special attention to the neglect of the environment […]