Learning Conversation

8 min Today's word is:  Embodiment Today's Learning Practice is with Jen Bleier, a somatic educator.  She offers up the perfect word!  Embodiment.   Join us in this exercise of practicing conversation on Learning Conversation.  :-) Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learning C...

38 min.   Interview:   Jen Bleier, Somatic Educator Maureen and Pierre interview Jen Bleier, friend and somatic educator.   Trained in Gyrotonic, Gyrokinesis, Pilates, Somatic Experience practitioner, and small "d" dancer.    Jen's work spans different modalities, hence her self-description as a somatic educator.   Jen said: "when you work with bodies, you can't not work with emotions." Maureen an...

Response-ability training is an online educational program to provide people with knowledge and skills to respond to their experiences, as opposed to merely reactiving and over-reacting chronically and unconscoiously. When you can respond to what life presents you with regulation and mindfulness, you save yourself from chronic stress which makes you better and your relationships with others better...

5 min Today's word is:  Happy Maureen references a documentry on Happy - 2012 movie. Is happy a good goal? Join the conversation.   Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learning Conversation.   If you want to practice with us by supplying a word and joining us:   contact us thro...

Resource:   Dr. Jordan B. Peterson Maureen begins the pod energized having just taught a yoga class.  With over 175 published podcasts on resources, practices, discussions, interviews, reflections, we've somehow not talked about Dr. Jordan B. Peterson. Peterson is a pivotal figure in 'Learning Conversation,' not just for this podcast but for so many who have followed his lead in examining what wor...

5 min Today's word is:  Suffering Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learning Conversation.   If you want to practice with us by supplying a word and joining us:   contact us through our websites. Landscapes for Learning YogaHEALS

24 min Maureen and Pierre discuss spiritual traditions of solitude versus the disaffectation of anxiety and isolation.   Spiritual practices include: Jesus in the desert for 40 days.   Thoreau "On Walden Pond."   Meditative practices.   John Francis - not talking for 17 years.  Modern disaffection include recent school shootings, which is on Maureen's mind as a former school teacher, mother, perso...

5 min Today's word is:  Orange Color or fruit. Double espresso's and Pierre's got hop at the buzzer + one. Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learning Conversation.   If you want to practice with us by supplying a word and joining us:   contact us through our websites. Landsca...

15 min What does it mean to be fit? How do you stay fit?  If you want to be fitter, how do you do that? What motivates you?  Maureen found a gym that has been motivating her towards building strength and getting fitter.  There are many elements in it and Pierre is curious. Maureen begins to explain Crossfit to Pierre, who starts to see the attraction of Crossfit in mind, body, and spirit training,...

21 min Jon Kabat- Zinn is today's resource.   Kabat-Zinn is a professor emeritus of the University of Massachusetts Medical School.   He received a Ph. D. in molecular biology for MIT in 1971. He is one of the earlier people in the health field to recognize the adverse effects of stress on health.   His book Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and I...

5 min Today's word is:  message. Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learning Conversation.   If you want to practice with us by supplying a word and joining us:   contact us through our websites. Landscapes for Learning YogaHEALS

15 min Today's Learning Conversation is about the death of conversation. Maureen and Pierre share thoughts on the value and importance of conversation for health and wellness in a democracy .  The Death of Conversation is also the title of a podcast between Coleman Hughes and Jonathan Haidt which is resourced in this episode.   Coleman Hughes is a black, African-American, intellectual with a podca...

5 min Today's word is:  opportunity Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learning Conversation.   If you want to practice with us by supplying a word and joining us:   contact us through our websites. Landscapes for Learning YogaHEALS

17 min Listen to Maureen and Pierre podcasting from their less than professional sound studios! Pierre introduces a resource that Maureen has not heard of, read about, or taught.   Wow!   Score one for Pierre. Pierre brings forward a resource:   Vivekananda. Called the 'Messenger of Indian Wisdom to the Western World,'   Vivekananda was the first person to come to America and teach yoga and Indian...

30 min Pierre is retired and working.  Wait, what? Why? What does retirment mean? What does work mean? Work and retirement are the subjects of today's podcast.    The action of leaving one's job: retirement. Is this a good thing?   Work life balance. What does that look like in different stages of life.   What does work look like in a capitalist society? Is it a good thing?   Is it a bad thing? Th...

15 min Health and fitness questions from Pierre.  Answers from Maureen. Or is it questions that answer from Maureen?   This is a pretty hilarious account of Pierre's inquiry into how to use a gym.   Maureen knows gyms inside and out. Pierre's set up to this podcast is classic Pierre mumbo jumbo, until Maureen sends the strike missile!   Yup - laser guided question:   why do you think you want to d...

5 min Today's word is:  Radical Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learning Conversation.   If you want to practice with us by supplying a word and joining us:   contact us through our websites. Landscapes for Learning YogaHEALS

18 min Pierre and Maureen introduce a resource:   Yuval Noah Harari.   Listen to the end of the podcast and find out why Pierre is so happy.   :-)   This podcast veers from Learning Conversation's usual resources in physical, mental and spiritual health to consider human behavior from the beginning of time.   Yup - big subject!   Yuval Harari takes on the history of humans masterfully. A professor...

5 min. Today's word from Maureen is:  Pushing. Maureen wants to move away from nouns. Her word pushing, pushes Pierre right into Forumla 1.  Push, push, push. Hilarious practice where Pierre speaks so fast to get in all he wants to say about F1, that he leaves Maureen with 9 seconds!   Enjoy. Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought...

25 min   Maureen and Pierre wander a bit off the road of spiritual mind body health by discussing "narratives."   Pierre's been wondering about the term "narrative." He is a little hesitant to express himself, lest Learning Conversation lands in the quagmire of politics.   His insight to the word   narrative - stories with a moral, a teaching moment - considers moral stories previously emanating f...

5 min Today's word is:  creative Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learning Conversation.   If you want to practice with us by supplying a word and joining us:   contact us through our websites. Landscapes for Learning YogaHEALS See ya around the corner. :-) 

24 min Attia's newsletter and podcast is:   The Drive. Dr. Peter Attia is a physician with degrees in engineering and mathematics. An authority on longevity and healthy lifestyles. Lifespan vs. Health span Maureen & Pierre discuss Attia's book, Outlive: the Science and Art of Longevity. In addition to the main themes in the book, Attia self-reveals his own drive and inability to self-care, which l...

8 min Rich Roll has an iconic intro sound to his podcast: a bicycle wheel freely spinning and clicking.  An early podcaster, Roll's open question style where he lets guests freely spin their stories can be a beautiful thing to listen to.  It's beautiful because his research is thorough, but he doesn't answer questions for guests, but leads with genuine curiosity and lets guests speak.  Refreshing....

10 min Maureen shares a very personal story about yoga teacher training. With 2 children in high school and twins in college, Maureen travels to Thailand for 9 weeks to become a yoga teacher.   Pierre asks Maureen about leaving kids 'alone.'  Maureen responds  that her four children were raised as responsible children (response - able). In pursuing yoga teacher training in Thailand, Maureen also w...

5 min Today's word:  history Humans as storytellers and the long arc of history: his-story.  Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learning Conversation.   If you want to practice with us by supplying a word and joining us:   contact us through our websites. Landscapes for Learni...