Several years ago I went to a “posture, movement and breathing” workshop by Simon Borg-Olivier when he was in Melbourne. It was a chance event. I found out about the workshop about a week prior, and jumped in. When I arrived 10 minutes early, the room was already filled with about 20 yoga teachers and...

Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior’s indulgence. – Don Juan The question is what could help us on our journey at a particular time? In an...

Odds are, we all need to write once in a while. A message, an email, a blog post… Maybe you need to craft the perfect comment on your cousin Barry’s facebook post about his latest exercise regime. Or, maybe you’re in small biz, in which case you definitely need to write (you’re creating content, right?)...

If we have a new problem, we need to innovate. If we want a better solution, we need to innovate. If we’re faced with a changing environment, we need to innovate. Innovation is really just recognising the living, evolving and changing nature of the people, culture and universe around us, then being willing to throw...

And, there was a lot of information out there ten years ago. It’s been a decade or two since the amount of “information” available crossed the threshold that any of us could actually handle. There’s been “too much” for a while now. So what’s happening? The difference is now, a lot of us are trying...

In our first couple years, a lot of our learning isn’t really a conscious “choice.” We crash our way through a bunch of lessons and “content” just to make life easier – we need to walk, eat, listen and speak to make our way around. Later though, we’ve covered the basic stuff, so we get...

The “arrow of time” is a phrase coined in 1927, by Sir Arthur Eddington. Basically, in the word “arrow,” he was making a claim that time only flows in one direction (which most of us can agree on.) So time “passes,” or “goes by” in a forward direction. And so, it creates a feeling of...

There’s another café 8 minutes car ride away. Not the quick take-away place. Eat-in meals, single origin coffee and a bunch of classy teas.And they have an “iced coffee…” When you order this one, it comes out on a wooden chopping-board, laid out in a special way:In one glass is cold brew coffee with ice.⠀In...