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Meditation and Yoga
Ikaria, Greece: Lessons, and a Couple Caveats, from a ‘Blue Zone’ / Nov 20
The small Greek island of Ikaria shot to fame a decade ago, when it was named one of the world’s five Blue Zones — places where people live longer than anywhere else. In Ikaria, a third of the population lives into their 90s, compared with 5 percent in the U.S. People in these places, the […]
Erie, Pa: You Fulfill Me / Mar 19
I never would have predicted that Erie, Pennsylvania would become my contemplative home away from home. I mean, Erie’s kind of a smaller version of Cleveland, where I live. It’s perched on the shore of Lake Erie. It’s got Victorian-era neighborhoods full of grit and beauty. It’s got hulking factories, many of which appear to […]
Thich Nhat Hanh, facilitator of pure experience / Nov 17
Beloved mindfulness teacher and Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh is slowly recovering in a French hospital after suffering a major brain hemorrhage last week. I’ve been lucky enough to attend a few retreats with him and/or his monastics at Blue Cliff Monastery in upstate New York! Below are my humble thoughts on the uniqueness of […]
The best urban parks are more immersive than pretty / Oct 07
The other day, after a work meeting, I walked through Washington Park in Cincinnati, on the edge of the city’s Over the Rhine district. A couple of work colleagues joined me. The six-acre park has just been redone, so it has sleek new benches and green green lawns and glass-and-hardwood bathroom huts. The weather’s beautiful: […]
Becoming Unscared of Meditation / Sep 19
In the West, meditation’s an awfully tough sell. I used to substitute-teach meditation classes at my yoga studio, and I’d get at most five or six people. Not many were repeat customers. People are intrigued by meditation. With life being so fast and crazy, there’s something intuitive about sitting in stillness being beneficial. They want […]