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Learned in Yoga Class

How yoga influences how I work with clients. I don’t expect you to do yoga. You don’t even have to attempt the pose I’m going to talk about. Ever. In your whole life. The point of this series is that yoga has taught me some interesting things about how to approach other things.

Transitions in your work day

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

Occasionally my yoga teacher focuses on transitions. While the poses themselves are important, how we move from one pose to another is also worthy of attention. Academic work is complex. You do a lot of different things in a day. In addition to thinking about how you do the specific tasks — email, teaching, writing, […]

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How to make it easy for YOU

Posted on March 12, 2015 by Jo VanEvery 1 Comment

This post complements others about establishing a writing practice. I’ve been using my yoga practice as an analogy. One of the key questions I asked myself when establishing a home yoga practice was “How do I make this easy?”. Some of the elements of my answer: The smallest possible amount (10 minutes to start) No extra […]

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Developing a new practice: An update on my yoga practice

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Jo VanEvery 2 Comments

In my Planning classes I talk about how you learn to juggle by tossing one beanbag from one hand to the other. Your goal is form and consistency. Once you have that, you can add more beanbags, change from beanbags to something else, and do something that looks much more like juggling. You can’t juggle flaming […]

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Using the supports you need

Posted on January 22, 2015 by Jo VanEvery 1 Comment

One of the things my yoga teachers are constantly reminding us about is that using supports is not a sign of weakness. Sometimes, in order to get the benefit of a pose, you need to use a block or a strap or modify the pose in some way. People vary. We are not all the […]

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What that 15 minute practice looks like

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

You are probably worried about being able to write high quality academic prose, to get it published, to write and publish enough of it, and so on. You may look at my advice to write for 15 minutes a day and think that is never going to help you with that. What useful writing can […]

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Practicing what I preach

Posted on January 6, 2015 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

Do you want to be an academic who writes regularly? In December, 2014, I decided that I wanted to be someone who practices yoga regularly. I’ve done enough yoga to know that it is good for me to do it regularly. I have a teacher locally that I really like. But I had fallen out […]

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Boundaries, balance and the whole you

Posted on December 12, 2013 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

The term “work-life balance” is out of favour. I’m not sure why. Perhaps because everyone is working so hard it seems like an impossible dream. I came across a recent piece in Harvard Business Review arguing for the importance of boundaries. They are not talking about academics but this definition of the problem definitely resonates: Success is […]

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People vary

Posted on September 3, 2012 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

This post is part of an occasional series about how yoga influences how I work with clients. I don’t expect you to do yoga. Ever. In your whole life. The point of this series is that yoga has taught me some interesting things about how to approach other things. Differences are not necessarily things we […]

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If it hurts …

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

This post is part of an occasional series about how yoga influences how I work with clients. I don’t expect you to do yoga. You don’t even have to attempt the pose I’m going to talk about. Ever. In your whole life. The point of this series is that yoga has taught me some interesting […]

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The goal & what you can do

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Jo VanEvery 2 Comments

This post is part of an occasional series about how yoga influences how I work with clients. I don’t expect you to do yoga. You don’t even have to attempt the pose I’m going to talk about. Ever. In your whole life. The point of this series is that yoga has taught me some interesting […]

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What yoga has taught me about life, writing, and work

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Jo VanEvery 1 Comment

  I practice yoga. And it occurred to me recently that yoga really influences how I work with clients. Your post-Enlightenment self has probably put yoga in a box with running, weight training, pilates, and aerobics. And I suspect some yoga classes are like that. I’ve been fortunate to have taken yoga classes with folks who […]

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