Today I wanted to share one of the ways I work out that brings me the greatest pleasure. I usually do this a couple of times per week. The movement is simple and challenging all at once. It’s crawling. I’ve been crawling for some time, but it has especially become important as I have had… Continue reading Crawling for a Stronger Body and Healthier Brain
Author: Carlos Gonzalez
Carlos Gonzalez teaches English at Miami Dade College and yoga and wellness in the community through Miami Firm Body, the company he co-founded with his wife, Maribel. He works with words, movement, and the body. His calling is to invite others to join him in the joy of searching within and finding the strength and courage to walk toward wholeness. Carlos is a spell caster, an educational trickster whose core mission is to transform grief into a source of possible beauty, vulnerability into strength, and fear into wonder.
Diabetes and Amputations
Yesterday I taught a yoga class with three other people. We usually have about eight or ten, but summer travel often has people out and about, enjoying time off. The class felt intimate and delightful. No one in the class, including myself, was under 50. I can safely say we were all seniors moving about,… Continue reading Diabetes and Amputations
And I Want to Return
These are notes from the first lecture from a course titled “Returning to Wholeness.”
Poverty and Race
Both my mom and dad grew up in extreme poverty. Neither one of them went beyond a 6th grade formal education. Their childhoods and youth were one of intense struggle and suffering. Their trauma was compounded with the loss of family and social support as they immigrated first to Spain and then to the United… Continue reading Poverty and Race
What’s Your Relationship to Your Mind?
I was asked this question this week and was surprised. I had not asked myself before. The short answer is that it’s complicated. The longer answer invites the larger question of What’s my relationship to my body? Putting these two questions side by side, the mind and body can’t really be divided, put into a… Continue reading What’s Your Relationship to Your Mind?
Let Delight Be the Bridge
Shooting Our Arrows
This week I watched Paris is Burning, a 1990 documentary film about people who find themselves in the margins of society and create a world where they can belong. The film drags at time, pun intended, but overall, it’s a remarkable storytelling piece that humanizes and poses (another pun) lots of questions. The film ends… Continue reading Shooting Our Arrows
Chernobyl smolders and so do I. How about you?
Earlier this week I learned that there are parts of the Chernobyl reactor that are still smoldering. The partial meltdown of the nuclear power plant took place April 26, 1986 with a fire that raged for eight days, bathing the surrounding area and a good portion of Western Europe in a radioactive cloud. Scientist are… Continue reading Chernobyl smolders and so do I. How about you?
10 Permissions
God speaks to each of us as he makes us,then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall,go to the limits of your longing. Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours, I 59 Most times before we start our yoga sessions we go… Continue reading 10 Permissions