Learning Conversation

5 min Today's word is: smashed! An onamatopoeia!!  Pierre and tennis (of course) come up.  Maureen muses on the difference of whacked and smashed, and a discussion of words in different languages winds up the pod.  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...

33 min. Reflection:   Making Good and Bad Podcasts Maureen and Pierre discuss their podcast journey.   No editing.   Cleaning up speech patterns.   Sharing resources.   Sharing dialogue with a friend.   How did this adventure start? Pierre revisits the early beginnings when Maureen met Pierre at Bikram Teacher Training 2015, Khao Lak, Thailand at the 10 min mark.   Yoga training was 9 weeks of tra...

18 min Maureen does a Tough Mudder.  Don't you just love that name? The way it sounds?  Tough Mudder.   Ok, so what is a Tough Mudder?  It's a national phenomenon now for some time where people challenge themselves with an obstacle course.  And yes, the obstacles are "tough" and some involve mud.  Maureen hits the podcast after teaching a 6:30 AM Bikram hot yoga class and munching on breakfast tel...

14 min Yes, you read that right.  Today's resource podcast is "anonymous."  Not just any anonymous, but a famous anonymous. Well as famous as an anonymous person can be. That is because, he - fairly certain of that gender - wrote a book of some fame.  The book is titled:  The Cloud of Unknowing.   A resource podcast is where we pick a person, a podcast, a book and bring it forward for consideratio...

5 min Today's word is:  Labor Labor is life, says Maureen. 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

5 min. Today's word is:  alert. 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

20 min Existential Humanist Psychology - well that's a mouthful.  Maureen is as geeky and deeply interested in psychology as anyone, says Pierre. The two of them go down a rabbit hole of discussion kicked off by Dr. David Puder's podcast.   A bit of a banter fest here. What was going to be a Resource pod on Dr. Puder's podcast crumbles into a discussion. Dr. Puder's podcast with Dr. Kirk Schneider...

5 min Today's word is:  water. Pierre immediately goes to Jesus.  Ut oh.  Maureen sees Shirley Winters floating by in her nightmares.   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...

5 min Today's word is:  slowly. Maureen says:  no more nouns, kids!  Let's get action oriented! Ok, so the word is slowly??????  Yup, the word is slowly.  Check out Maureen and Pierre practicing how to speak to one another. Check out "Learning Conversation." Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we pra...

15 min.  James Clear, Atomic Habits,  ducks Wikipedia. What? Maureen wants to talk about James Clear, Atomic Habits: Small  Changes Make Big  Differences .  Pierre explains that there is no Wiki entry for James Clear. Has he somehow taken control of the Internet?   Good for him! His book sold 10+ million copies.   3 key points in Atomic Habits, according to Maureen: Small changes make a big differ...

5 min Today's word is:  woke 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

5 min Today's word is:  virture 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

33 min. Maureen wants to talk about Jonathan Haidt. He is a resource teaching about regulating nervous systems in the midst of social fragility and political brittleness. He's a guy who is in the forefront of calling out aspects of popular culture which he believes are well intentioned but misguided. Jonathan Haidt's article in Atlantic Magazine, "The Coddling of the American Mind," more or less w...

33 min Fitting for a "Learning Conversation," this discussion covers a lot of ground. Maybe it's like your conversations? Those conversations when you are learning, listening, sharing, discovering?    This podcast covers:   Whoop (fitness bit) > 90-min hot yoga > strength training >   spirit training > Hubbell telescope >   science > out space > inner space > a cloud of unknowing > tolerance for a...

20 min Hold the presses!   Pierre knows what he's talking about? Wait! What?    Well, let's qualify that.   Pierre knows what he wants to talk about.   We're not saying Pierre actually knows what he is talking about. Let's be clear about that!   Pierre wants to talk about a book:   Radical Love, by Omid Safi.   The book was given to Pierre by his good friend Manish. Hat tip to  Manish with a riff...

5 min 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

25 min Eckhart Tolle's video:   Excess baggage.   How we think of life's struggles causes unnecessary suffering.   The second arrow analogy in Buddhist tradition. Tolle says life is one's response to circumstances, not the collection of circumstances.   Maureen and Pierre resource an outstanding light in the modern field of spiritual awakening: Eckhart Tolle. The assumption that people shouldn't f...

40 min Maureen and Pierre revisit Eckhart Tolle to explore his life's story.  Follow-on conversation from the first podcast on Eckhart Tolle. Before revisiting Tolle, Maureen mentions   people are actually listening to these podcasts.   Wait, what?!  They are???  WOW!  Cool!   Maureen says someone mentioned liking 'Pierre's voice and playfulness.'   Pierre loves the playfulness comment, and riffs...

10 min. Maureen wants to talk about Deb Dana. Pierre and Maureen begin by laughing and laughing some more about their efforts to explain polyvagal theory. A mind-body resource, Deb Dana, a psychologist teaches people how to recognize their physiological states.   If you understand the ladder of stress and relaxation, high regulation or low, she says there are 3 distinct states. Prior paradigms of...

20 min Maureen and Pierre reflect on a year of podcasting trying to learn conversation.   Yes, ironically t hat's the title of our podcast:   Learning Conversation. Join us as we consider "the shit that comes out of our mouths."   We skip over the structure of our podcasts, listed below, and dive into the speaking / listening duality. We consider Socratic dialogue.   We explore having a 6th form o...

15 min After a weather report comparing morning temps in MA and CA, both 58 degrees, Maureen introduces Professor John Vervaeke as a Learning Conversation resource. He is an award winning lecturer at the University of Toronto in psychology, cognitive science and Buddhist psychology.   Vervaeke's academic interests include wisdom, mindfulness, meditation....   Wait, what?   Pierre comments those su...

15 min Maureen and Pierre share their daily weather report, and then pod their way into the subject of atttention.  Then, Maureen tells Pierre about the workshop she is giving on attention and love at Yoga Studio Y in Danvers, MA, where Maureen has opened a Wellness Resource Center.  The Wellness Center at Studio Y is designed to create community by expanding offerings of the yoga studio.   Think...

13 min   Maureen talks about a course she took from a resource called:   Embodied Philosophy.   Pierre, who knows nothing about polyvagal theory, plays the part of the ventriloquist dummy trying to understand what polyvagal theory is all about.   Maureen explains.   Put on your safety belt for a zoom down the steep part of the roller coaster.   Maureen recaps: Polyvagal Theory Neural Exercises for...

5 min Today's word is:  resourceful. 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

13 minutes Lately, Pierre's been obsessed with the title of our podcast,  Learning Conversation - see prior Reflection podcasts. He is enjoying learning about learning through conversation, and improving conversational skills.  Wait, what? Listening is involved? Who knew? On that note, Maureen tells Pierre about a book she used with her students to teach the skill and importance of listening. The...