by Carmen Champion | Jan 1, 2024 | Carmen Champion, Lifestyle, Weekly Letter, Yogic Journey
Me to Levi: I want to write something about new years resolutions, but how they don’t work. Levi: there’s a podcast you should listen to… Link to the transcript and recording: The Problem with setting goals with NFL linebacker Emmanuel Acho You...
by Carmen Champion | Dec 26, 2023 | Carmen Champion, Teacher Article, Weekly Letter, Yogic Journey
Part 5: Applying it to practice The practice asks you to monitor pain on different levels: mental and physical. And sometimes they blur or get confused. I once had a student who would say ‘ow’ every time they felt sensation. We would be doing postures and they would...
by Carmen Champion | Dec 19, 2023 | Carmen Champion, Lifestyle, Weekly Letter, Yogic Journey
Part 4: Pain Messaging Somewhere, during our cycle of life, early on and now, we are given strong messaging to stuff our pain down. To mute it. Some people stuff it so completely they create an entirely new sensitivity to what it all means. They can change the shape...
by Carmen Champion | Dec 12, 2023 | Carmen Champion, Lifestyle, Weekly Letter, Yogic Journey
Pain Origins -Part 3: Mental/Emotional If only small children had the language to express the nuance of mental and emotional pain. We may have had the word ‘gaslighting’ far earlier. Unfortunately, the child experience of mental or emotional pain is a quiet one. This...
by Carmen Champion | Dec 5, 2023 | Carmen Champion, Lifestyle, Weekly Letter, Yogic Journey
Pain Origins: Physical Pain I grew up in the 80s-90s when ‘stranger danger’ was strong. I used to think the phrase came from The Cure’s Just Like Heaven, but later realized the phrase was ‘strange as angels,’ and not Robert Smith’s wonderful voice saying ‘stranger...
by Carmen Champion | Nov 14, 2023 | Carmen Champion, Lifestyle, Weekly Letter, Yogic Journey
A Series on Pain: Part 1 I went to the doctor for a pain I’ve been having in my wrist. It turns out to be a ganglion cyst and not that big of a deal, but as a precaution, he took an X-ray to check for arthritis. After, we sat down and he told me about my options and...
