Mindful Running: A Journey Not A Destination
2 Comments by Ozzie Gontang / November 1, 2011 / Posted in Breathe, Mindful RunningThis was shared by Roger Wright Running For My Existence
Roger, thanks for sharing and reminding us that like marathon running: Life is a journey not a destination.
Thanks also to Doug Freese and his continued contributions to Google Group: rec.running.
Mindful Running: An Interview with Ozzie
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / October 5, 2011 / Posted in Breathe, Mindful Running, The Running MindHere is the link to Jackie Linehan’s web page:The Peaceful Runner where she did an interview with me.
The Full Interview: Mindful Running Interview with Ozzie Gontang
The first of Jackie’s ten questions:
Q. Thank you Ozzie for joining us today. I have to say I really enjoy reading the articles on your website. They contain so many [...]
Playing with Walking Mindfully
1 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / October 4, 2011 / Posted in Injury Prevention, Mindful Running, Mindful Walking, Mindfulness, Running Form & StyleIf you watch the way most people walk you will notice that the lower leg snaps forward and the person (and probably you) land on the back of the heel of the shoe first. If you look at the heels of your regular shoes, you will most likely notice that the outer edge of the [...]
Mindful Running: A Practice & A Journey
1 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / March 8, 2011 / Posted in Mindful Running, The Running MindThese were some of my reflections back in 1998 first titled: Thoughts on Running Observing Thoughts It was a poem I wrote after a run on St. Valentine’s Day.
From those thoughts flowed: On the road to Mindful Running
Life is the childhood of our immortality
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ChiRunning: A Practice of Mindful Movement
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / February 20, 2011 / Posted in Meditation, Mindful Running, Mindfulness, Running Form & StyleI have had the pleasure of knowing Danny and Katherine Dreyer since the mid-90’s when we first communicated by phone and in the news group:rec.running.
Danny was beginning to share his practice that combined his love of running and his practice of tai chi. The union by Danny of running and the principles of Tai [...]
Mindful Running: Running on Thin Ice
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / October 5, 2010 / Posted in Mindful Running, Running Injury PreventionIn an earlier piece I wrote about Running form and attached a picture of Nicholas Romanov, founder of Pose Method, running across the ice at an ice rink.
I came across another video of him at the blog site of a friend with whom I’ve corresponded off and on for the past two years. [...]
Playing with Mindful Running and some Mindful Programs
0 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / September 11, 2010 / Posted in Meditation, Mindful Running, Mindfulness, The Running MindIn replying to Proper Running: Mindful Movement in the Moment, Israel Manas share that he and his colleagues have been practicing Mindfulness during their runs.
I look forward to what they are doing, experiencing and learning.
You may want to read Israel’s article MINDFULNESS (ATENCIÓN PLENA): LA MEDITACIÓN EN PSICOLOGÍA CLÍNICA or visit his website: Psicologia y [...]
Proper Running: Mindful Movement in the Moment
3 Comments by Ozzie Gontang / April 26, 2010 / Posted in Mindful Running, Running Form & Style, Running Injury Prevention, The Running Mindhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/asvolcans/ / CC BY-NC 2.0
Mindlessness is made of those habits and behaviors that that we do automatically and habitually with little or no awareness. Mindfulness focuses attention and awareness on the present moment. As there is only “Hic et Nunc” - Here and Now.
Last month the San Diego Marathon Clinic celebrated 35 years of service [...]
Response to an article on the Running Shoe Debate
1 Comment by Ozzie Gontang / December 13, 2009 / Posted in Mindful RunningThe Running Shoe Debate: How Barefoot Runners are Shaping the Shoe Industry
By Tyghe Trimble in April 22, 2009 edition of Popular Mechanics
http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/4314401.html
Debate is taking a stance that one’s ideas are correct and the other side’s are wrong. Discussion comes from the same derivation at concussion and percussion: A hitting up against. In [...]
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 [...]
