Saturday, November 10, 2007
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Baseball and Yoga
I'm collecting articles to convince the Red Sox organization that they need to hire a yoga teacher to keep their boys off the disabled list... let me know if you come across any...
Devils Rays Do Yoga
Devils Rays Do Yoga
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
75 HOURS??? Seriously?
I spent all day yesterday trying to figure out what to do about the Shack's teacher training program. Well -- it wasn't ALL day. I spent the hour of General Hospital finishing a scarf and an hour in the evening watching a Wakefield game from April. (I hate knuckleballers -- i fell asleep and missed Dr. Quinn getting kicked off Dancing. I'm out $5. Stupid knuckleballers...). But I digress... my point was that I thought and researched and stressed ALL day and my conclusion is that it can't be done or more precisely is that I cannot, in good conscience, do it. The Yoga Shack Teacher Training Program registered with the Yoga Alliance will end.
The Yoga Alliance is a wonderful idea. The first election of the second Bush created much panic for the alternative health community. No one knew that a war would soon happen and engulf the focus of the government for many years to come. Massage, yoga, herbs, etc, were just starting to grow in popularity and there was a lot of talk about insurance companies potentially covering alternative or preventative medicine. If that were to come to fruition, we all need the government (or insurance companies) would need to regulate these specialties. Not willing to have the government tell them what they could and couldn't do, some teachers grouped together and started the Yoga Alliance. The idea was to set up their own standards, so should the government later decide that needed standards, they would already be in place. The idea was to let yoga teachers decide what qualifications made a good yoga teacher. So they set up a registry of yoga teachers who had a certain amount of experience or training. The idea is not to license or control who teaches and who doesn't but simply to list teachers who met a certain minimum standards.
So it has become the standard. While it is still not necessary to be "registered", it is becoming the norm and some studios won't hire you if you aren't registered. Some of the best and most experienced teachers that I ever worked with aren't registered. It has become almost a necessity of a teacher training program. Graduates want to be able to register with the Yoga Alliance. So I set up my teacher training program to meet the standards and my graduates registered. Sure I had some complaints about the standards. Like they only require 5 hours of practicuum. FIVE hours of teaching DOES NOT MAKE YOU A TEACHER in any way, shape, or form. They require WAY too much Philosophy and Ethics. Seriously, who can teach someone to be ethical. Some of the most unethical people I've met in my life are Registered Yoga Teachers. But I did what I had to and everyone was relatively happy.
But then they changed their standards. They were subtle changes for the most part, but one stood out and has ruined all the fun. They require 100 hours of yoga techniques. That's not surprising, although it sounds like a lot. The catch is that 75 of these hours can longer be from classes that are open to the general public. They have to be from classes that are ONLY OPEN TO TEACHER TRAINEES. Now I require students to get through the entire primary series in Mysore sessions in order to even qualify for teacher training. This is a tremendous number of hours, much of which is one on one. Students have to memorize the order of the postures, the form and alignment, and the breath. And then, according the Yoga Alliance, I'm supposed to spend 75 hours teaching them (and there will only be a couple) what they already know. And the time would mean 36 5-hour sessions. Seriously???
I get why they made the change. I totally get it. Most yoga students are in the back of a room of 100 people and their teacher never gets off their mat. But that's not how it is here. I'm on my hands and knees teaching each person individually. Their one size fits all set of standards just doesn't fit us.
more rant coming soon....
The Yoga Alliance is a wonderful idea. The first election of the second Bush created much panic for the alternative health community. No one knew that a war would soon happen and engulf the focus of the government for many years to come. Massage, yoga, herbs, etc, were just starting to grow in popularity and there was a lot of talk about insurance companies potentially covering alternative or preventative medicine. If that were to come to fruition, we all need the government (or insurance companies) would need to regulate these specialties. Not willing to have the government tell them what they could and couldn't do, some teachers grouped together and started the Yoga Alliance. The idea was to set up their own standards, so should the government later decide that needed standards, they would already be in place. The idea was to let yoga teachers decide what qualifications made a good yoga teacher. So they set up a registry of yoga teachers who had a certain amount of experience or training. The idea is not to license or control who teaches and who doesn't but simply to list teachers who met a certain minimum standards.
So it has become the standard. While it is still not necessary to be "registered", it is becoming the norm and some studios won't hire you if you aren't registered. Some of the best and most experienced teachers that I ever worked with aren't registered. It has become almost a necessity of a teacher training program. Graduates want to be able to register with the Yoga Alliance. So I set up my teacher training program to meet the standards and my graduates registered. Sure I had some complaints about the standards. Like they only require 5 hours of practicuum. FIVE hours of teaching DOES NOT MAKE YOU A TEACHER in any way, shape, or form. They require WAY too much Philosophy and Ethics. Seriously, who can teach someone to be ethical. Some of the most unethical people I've met in my life are Registered Yoga Teachers. But I did what I had to and everyone was relatively happy.
But then they changed their standards. They were subtle changes for the most part, but one stood out and has ruined all the fun. They require 100 hours of yoga techniques. That's not surprising, although it sounds like a lot. The catch is that 75 of these hours can longer be from classes that are open to the general public. They have to be from classes that are ONLY OPEN TO TEACHER TRAINEES. Now I require students to get through the entire primary series in Mysore sessions in order to even qualify for teacher training. This is a tremendous number of hours, much of which is one on one. Students have to memorize the order of the postures, the form and alignment, and the breath. And then, according the Yoga Alliance, I'm supposed to spend 75 hours teaching them (and there will only be a couple) what they already know. And the time would mean 36 5-hour sessions. Seriously???
I get why they made the change. I totally get it. Most yoga students are in the back of a room of 100 people and their teacher never gets off their mat. But that's not how it is here. I'm on my hands and knees teaching each person individually. Their one size fits all set of standards just doesn't fit us.
more rant coming soon....
Curt's Deal
$8 million in guaranteed base salary
$2 million in bonuses for 6 seperate weigh ins.
$3 million in IP incentives based on IP totals.
$1 million for receiving a Cy Young vote, any vote.
That's not a joke. OMG, the weigh in bonus makes me laugh so hard. But seriously, this is a beautiful thing. I'm having trouble coming to terms with it, to be quite honest. I'm a Sox fan from the 80s and 90s, when every off season my heroes were let go. I've come to expect the worst. In fact, it never occurred to me that the Sox would even try to sign Schill. It's a whole new Red Sox organization -- one that can win World Series Championships, and one that keeps the men who help win ballgames around. THANKS, THEO.. ..
$2 million in bonuses for 6 seperate weigh ins.
$3 million in IP incentives based on IP totals.
$1 million for receiving a Cy Young vote, any vote.
That's not a joke. OMG, the weigh in bonus makes me laugh so hard. But seriously, this is a beautiful thing. I'm having trouble coming to terms with it, to be quite honest. I'm a Sox fan from the 80s and 90s, when every off season my heroes were let go. I've come to expect the worst. In fact, it never occurred to me that the Sox would even try to sign Schill. It's a whole new Red Sox organization -- one that can win World Series Championships, and one that keeps the men who help win ballgames around. THANKS, THEO.. ..
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Check this out..
I caught the first 1/2 hour of Silence of the Lambs this weekend and I was struck by the familiarity of the put the lotion on the skin girl. Sure enough.....
Yup! It-puts-the-lotion-on-the-skin girl is Dr. Hahn on Grey's AND the Peter's ex-wife on Weeds!
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Yup! It-puts-the-lotion-on-the-skin girl is Dr. Hahn on Grey's AND the Peter's ex-wife on Weeds!
YOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUKKKKKKKKKKK!
Not only does he have the hottest goatee in baseball ;) but now he has a GOLD GLOVE!! 135 consecutive errorless games! rock on, Youk....
i think i'm gonna hurl...
Can you identify the thing in the picture that's not a dime??
It's Terry Francona's discarded chewing tobacco/gum and it's up for auction on ebay. No joke. It's bid up to $100 so you'd better get on over and bid!
Curt Confirms
From Curt Shilling's blog over at 38 Pitches:
Warms my heart...
Talks with the Red Sox are moving. Theo and I have spoken multiple times daily over the past week and given the current situation I am feeling very confident that we will be able to finalize a 1 year contract to allow us a chance to finish our career as members of the Red Sox organization.
There are some things to iron out and details that must be finalized for both sides but barring something unforseen or outrageously odd happening I feel very comfortable that I will finish my career here.
Warms my heart...
Monday, November 5, 2007
Schilling deal lookin' good...
Rumors are starting to circulate that Theo and Curt are getting close to a deal. Supposedly Curt is willing to take less to stay with the Sox which warms my little heart. I would really like to see Curt retire with the Sox rather than get a little more money for one year and play his last year who knows where... I love it when LOYALTY trumps EGO! Go Curt! (and in case you are wondering I found out that my man Theo is a newlywed =( )
Rumors also abound for Coco Crisp. Seems like everyone wants our boy... which makes me want to keep him more than ever, but love love love me that jacoby ellsbury and i hear that little jacoby only makes like 400,000/yr. What a bargain!!
Rumors also abound for Coco Crisp. Seems like everyone wants our boy... which makes me want to keep him more than ever, but love love love me that jacoby ellsbury and i hear that little jacoby only makes like 400,000/yr. What a bargain!!
Quiet Day in Baseball
The world series buzz seems to be settling. I did come across this quote from the great Theo Epstein (anyone know if he's single?)...
I found that quite reassuring...
"I haven't talked to Scott (Boras) for a while," said Epstein concerning A-Rod's agent. "I'm sure we'll touch base with him here, just general, touching base with him. Right now we're focussed on our own guys. We're trying to survey the landscape. We're trying to see if you we can sign our own guys. See if anything makes sense and move on from there."
I found that quite reassuring...
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