Life
The Lesson You Choose
The other day one of my students had a rather scary moment after class, we’ll call him Bill. While performing a demonstration Bill nearly injured another student by going faster and harder than he...
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Life
Transformation Comes Through Rhythm
If you want to make a big transformation in your life. The most important thing you can do is to create a rhythm around that change. Success in transformation does not come through revolutionary...
Life
Connecting Across Generations
I have a friend that I frequently have lunch with. She's a live wire, thoughtful, artistic, and always challenges me. She is wise and creative and 30 years older than me. When we go out I am not...
Life
How to Build Rapport but Not Connection
Open the door for others to share but keep your door closed. Being a good listener is a profound skill and so many are hungry to share and be heard. You can easily be the one with whom everyone...
Life
Hating What You Love
In the pursuit of a passion it’s inevitable that you might have some time where you hate what you love. There are times in both fencing and dancing that I have truly struggled to stay in a place of...
LifeRelationships
Seeing and Being Seen
How special a thing it is to be truly seen and in that seeing to be taken and accepted as you are. I feel this is one of the truest ways we can express love for another. Much of our time as modern...
DanceLife
Why Get Better? – Reasons for Mastery
What is your motivation for excelling and improving? Note this is not the question of “why you do this”. There are tons of good reason for that (fun, connection, fitness, etc) but why get better at...
LifeProductivity
Be Emotional, Don't be Dramatic
Almost every project I have worked on needs more emotion. We're a culture deprived of healthy emotional expression and connection. Much of what we produce is flat and devoid of true passion and...
Life
Sharing Your Need
“I don’t want to admit this — because I don’t like to need things — but this is exactly what I need.” said a private student of mine after a recent session of learning to use a longsword. There are...
Life
Trying on Ideas
Sometimes when we hear an idea to truly understand we have to try it on. We want to see if that idea fits, if it's comfortable with our world view. How it matches the other ideas we wear. It feels...