Yoga is a total mind-body workout that combines strengthening and stretching poses with deep breathing and meditation or relaxation. Creativity Yoga will increase your capacity for ideas by moving your thoughts and learning in ways that incorporate all your senses. You achieve a meditative state when you find yourself in the creative flow. In the last blog post I shared a story about jumping off a waterfall and how this helped me realize I learn in many ways.   When you are learning something new, you engage all your senses, and you have your own personal learning super-power. Do you read all the [...]

The sun was rising above the crest of the waterfall. It had been a difficult climb to reach the top of the waterfall, but an even more difficult time to climb back down. I had made the climb up and down four times now over the past two days. This time I would take the fast way down. I stood on the edge of the rock and felt the roar of the water crashing down 40 feet below. I felt the cool morning breeze becoming warm from the rising sun. I acknowledged the fear in my gut, but I honored the desire to fly. I took a deep breath in, moved past the fear and jumped. Time stood [...]

My grandfather grew up in the Great Depression and the innovations he used to survive stayed with him and influenced me. He was an entrepreneur and an artist but he grew up in a vastly different world. He came to the US from Mexico as a child and had to drop out of school in the 4th grade to work for the family. He began by selling tamales and eventually the family opened their own restaurant. He was highly intelligent even without traditional schooling. We didn’t always get along and there were many attitudes of his that I did not agree [...]