Nurturing and Nourishing Food For Mindfulness
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / January 27, 2010 / Posted in Meditation, MindfulnessAlthough I twitter infrequently I am delighted by the people I meet and the amazing work they do in their contributions to Mindfulness. One of those paths I recently followed was started by Karin R. Lawson, Psy. D. who is on the team at Institute for Girls’ Development located in Pasadena, CA. Karin works with [...]
Mindful Running & Lessons to be learned from Evolutionary Biology
5 Comments by Ozzie Gontang / December 8, 2009 / Posted in Mindful Running, Oz On Marathoning, Oz on Injuries, Running Form & Style, Running Injury Prevention, The Running Mind Had a lengthy, informative, and enlightening phone conversation with Dan Lieberman, from Harvard’s Department of Evolutionary Biology. We weren’t able to link schedules for a run. For both of us family and friends came first during this Thanksgiving holiday in Boston. So the phone had to do.
After speaking with Dan I am excited [...]
Mindfulness & Breathing
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / November 20, 2009 / Posted in Breathe, Meditation, Mindful Running, MindfulnessIn an explanation of the breathing techniques of Russian scientist, Dr Konstatin Buteyko, an interesting observation was made. A dog breathing at 40 breathes/minute lives 20 years; a man breathing at 17 breathes/minute lives 70 years and a turtle breathing at 1 to 3 breathes a minute lives several hundred years. Maybe this is another [...]
Mindfulness: MBSR In West Virginia & the World
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / July 12, 2009 / Posted in Meditation, MindfulnessHere’s a short clip to watch on a research study using Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program in West Virginia.
Embedded video from CNN Video
You can read the accompanying article: Mindfulness Training Busts Stress
If you want to see where there are MBSR program in your area or worldwide check out U. Mass.’s Center for Mindfulness locator.
Better Running Through Walking & My Biased Reflections
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / June 2, 2009 / Posted in Injury Prevention, Mindful Running, Oz On Marathoning, Psyching Series, Running Form & Style, Running Injury Prevention, The Running MindMarathoning is about mindful movement. The article Better Running Through Walking in the New York Times gives some helpful hints and testimonials to the run/walk approach championed by Jeff Galloway for many a year.
Over the next 5 months as Tara Parker-Pope prepares for the New York City Marathon on November 1st, there will be [...]
Mindfulness and the Four-Fold Way
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / May 27, 2009 / Posted in Meditation, Mindful Leadership, MindfulnessAngeles Arrien brings to life and into one’s practice of mindfulness the wisdom lost through mindless living. Her work is a mindful and experiential way of learning to “walk the mystical path with practical feet.” The Four-Fold Way uses four main principles that emphasize and are based upon ancient cultural wisdoms that we can apply [...]
First and Foremost; Be A Good Animal
1 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / March 13, 2009 / Posted in Mindful Running, MindfulnessGeorge Sheehan in his writings said we are called to be Saints, Poets, Philosophers, Artists, and Athletes. His would add emphatically at the end: But first and foremost; Be a good animal.
To that end and that beginning Frank Forencich created Exuberant Animal to promote health, positive physicality and physical happiness. Click here to get [...]
