More please - very cool way to lighten the morning :)
about 11 months ago in Bern, CH
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www.myyogaonline.com
Vancouver, CA
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My Occupation is
CEO and Co-Founder of My Yoga Online
My hobbies/interests are
family, playing hockey (not watching), golf, boxing, running, tennis
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My 2012 Resolution is...
December 31, 2011 at 2:35am
My Resolution is to not work so hard, although working hard is addictive. Family time, family time, family time.
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June 16, 2011 at 10:27pm
Had our first office yoga class today at My Yoga offices. Great to see everyone out there. Especially our programmers. Great work vibe afterward.
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April 30, 2011 at 2:19am
Sleep program. Need this to help wind down at the end of the day.
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MYO Staff Make Short Film
March 31, 2011 at 5:30pm
A few weeks ago we enlisted my two year old son, Lincoln, to make a short film. With Thom Stitt, our head editor as the co-star, we spent a Saturday afternoon shooting this. It was fun and invigorating to work on something creative with my boy.
If people like this video, we are thinking of shooting some funny yoga pieces with Lincoln.
Please check the video out and share with with your friends if it makes you laugh...
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/521dc257b5/ford-gt-ten-bucks
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Show More Comments (2)I'm glad people are enjoying this video. We have another one with Lincoln teaching a yoga class coming soon.
about 11 months ago in Vancouver, CA
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Great Teachers Change Lives
March 15, 2011 at 5:16pm
I am going to start this with saying that my mother-in-law, Juanita Trantina, is an avid Sunday Times reader and fan of the writer Nicholas Kristof. She reads his column religiously and has told us that he was a student of hers back when he was a boy. This weekend he wrote a story about teacher pay and part way through the story he sites Juanita (she actually prefers to go by her maiden name, Nita Wardlow) as being a great teacher and an influence on him as a child. Imagine sitting down to read your favourite paper and writer on a Sunday morning and seeing your name mentioned in print as being a great teacher and influence on that writer.
Juanita has a two year old grandson and she’s great with him. It’s amazing how he lights up when he sees her. What I wouldn’t give to have my child have a great teacher like her when he goes to school. I've had two great teachers, or at least two teachers that stood out as making a difference in my life. They were Mr. Held in grade five and Mr. Hicks in grade 10. Mr. Held was new to the school and he started an enrichment program of which I became a part of. It opened my eyes to so many possibilities, and especially my creativity, outside the rigors of daily classroom work. Mr. Hicks was also new to my school, and also a new teacher. He taught Economics but really pushed me to use my creative side. That certainly seemed to be a running theme, at least on my end. Creativity. Use it. Embrace it.
My wife and I have been talking about pre-school and kindergarten and so on. Where we live, there is one public pre-school and elementary school. Both have waiting lists. My boy has been on the pre-school waiting list since six months before he was born. I think he's around number 50 now. It doesn't look like he's going to get in. For Kindergarten, it used to be parents lined up in the winter cold for registration, camped-out over a long weekend. But now it’s a lottery system, which is even worse. Either way, it doesn't look good. Instead, we have decided to pay for Montessori pre-school beginning in September. I like their concepts and the classroom size. But not everyone is able to make these choices for their child.
My wife and I watched the documentary “Waiting for Superman” on the weekend, which pretty much laid out how bad the education system is in America. And then on Sunday, 60 Minutes ran a piece about a charter school in NY that pays its teacher’s $125,000 a year. They are able to do this becomes they are outside the Teacher’s Union and don’t offer the teacher’s tenure. Both stories emphasized the fact that under the current education system, a teacher becomes tenured for just breathing and showing up and can’t be fired. Something like out of 50,000 teachers that had grievances filed against them, only 7 were fired. In essence, great teachers are not rewarded and bad teachers are not punished and as a result, our kids lose. To get into these charter schools, it’s another lottery system. So your future in America is based on luck. Luck whether you get into a good school and luck whether you get a great teacher.
It’s sad that when there are great teachers out there like Nita and Mr. Held and Mr. Hicks, children can’t access them because of Teacher Union bureaucracies and lottery systems. If you are lucky, you get one or two great teachers that inspire and change your life. But imagine, just imagine, a world where every teacher you have is great. Is that a possibility?
Please feel free to share your great teacher stories with me and others at MyYogaOnline.com. Let’s give our great teachers the credit they deserve.
You can read the full NY Times article on Pay Teacher's More here.. Read the full article here… http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/opinion/13kristof.html
For Teachers in teaching wanting to be great teachers: http://www.geocities.ws/greatteachersari/
about 10 months ago
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Winter Wonderland
November 25, 2010 at 2:15pm
Outside our office windows, it's a blanket of snow. A sharp contrast from the spring weather during the Olympics last year. I've been told this will be the coldest Vancouver winter on record in the last 25 years. Oh boy. Tonight, we are filming two of Bernie's live classes for the site. Let's hope people can brave the weather. I'm going to take one of his classes. Haven't decided yet whether it will be the Yin or the Yang. I am certainly due for some deep stretching.
Nice dusting of snow... of course not like we get in Montreal. But you can't have everything, right! But that's the great thing about Vancouver ~ snow on demand in the Mountains in Winter... (and maybe in the Summer too??).
I've done both Bernie's classes that you recorded just before Christmas. Judging from the video it looks like there was a good turnout. And no wonder... Bernie is a great teacher, snow or no snow.about a year ago in Saint-Camille, QC, CA
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October 24, 2010 at 3:56pm
I eat a pretty healthy diet. All organic or local. An even mix of protein, greens, carbs. I try to limit the sugar. Using agave syrup instead of sugar in my morning coffee. Trying for only one coffee a day. Fiber for breakfast. Probably my two biggest weaknesses are forgetting to eat lunch and eating late at night. The late at night thing is the biggy. It's tough. When you work late. But we have been trying to sit down no later than seven. Especially with the kid. But after the kid is in bed, you want to chill with a glass of wine or a tea and a snack and zone out in front of the tv for an hour or so. So have made a decision to cut out all late night snacking during the week and limit it to only Friday and Saturday nights. So far have been on this kick for a few weeks now and i already feel a difference. Amazing how something as simple as cutting out a late night snack can have such a profound affect on your body. Now I just need to remember to eat lunch once and a while.
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Desire: Working-Out vs. Sex
September 22, 2010 at 10:42pm
There's a certain bliss that takes over after a workout, whether it is an hour and half long hatha class or a twenty minute run or a fifteen minute swim. Why with such an amazing feeling afterward is it still so hard to motivate oneself to actually begin the workout?
Once I start, I'm there, I am in the zone, but that initial decision and the follow-through to actually start is sorely lacking. Whereas, with sex, same feeling of bliss afterward, well not exactly the same feeling, but a feeling of bliss nonetheless, but if someone says, Hey, do you want to go have sex right now? I'd be like, Yeah sure, let's do it. Of course, it would have to be the wife that is doing the asking. With working out though, if someone goes, Hey, you want to work out right now, I'd be like, Yeah, sure, sounds like a great idea, but I'm kinda busy at the moment. Let me finish this first, and then I'll be right there. And then right there passes me by and the workout happens without me. But sex, no way I am going to let that happen without me.
How do I make the desire to work out the same as the desire to have sex? Is that why single guys are more likely to be in shape then married men? Because working out, and being in shape, leads to more sex? They combine the desires. The desire to workout is related to the desire to have sex. More working out, more sex. Hmm, so if I work out more, I will look and feel better, and then the wife will want to have more sex with me. Okay, that’s it, I’m going to go work out.
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September 14, 2010 at 2:26pm
I feel like I am catching up on things. For the moment. It\'s a good feeling. Have had four straight days of working out which obviously gives me more energy and places me in a better mood. Hurt my wrist yesterday playing hockey so that\'s no fun. Was going to do yoga this week but may have to hold off which is too bad. Watched Mad Men last night. This show just gets better and better. Don Draper took up swimming and made me want to get back in the pool. The great thing about swimming. Bad wrists, bad knees, none of that matters. And it\'s great for your heart.
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September 2, 2010 at 5:24pm
Where do the days go? Falling behind on the workout schedule. Had a few good weeks there. Have to get back on track. have to make priorities to fit exercise into my work day.
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August 28, 2010 at 4:50pm
Question? Why is it so hard to hit a golf ball? Playe gold yesterday and although I wan't that bad, man, sometimes that ball just doesn't go in the right direction. A lot of fat guys zooming around on carts. Here's a suggestion... WALK.
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August 23, 2010 at 12:32pm
Three great days of working out. Vinyasa Power Class on Friday with Cameron, a new teacher that will have live classes on the site starting this week. Hockey on Saturday and tennis yesterday. All about Variety. Makes working out so much more fun to change it up. And better for your body. Don't want to get too conditioned to the same exercise over and over again.
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