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Physical Education « Sara K. Schneider's Skin in the Game
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Sara K. Schneider's Skin in the Game. Reflections on body, culture, and spiritual practice. Moving to learn is not just for kindergartners: it’s for everyone who has a body. Using their own bodies in their professional roles, teachers help students build both passion for the learning they face together and trust for where the teacher is trying to take them; it also inspires them to higher levels of achievement. What follows are suggestions for integrating movement into the general education classroom exp...
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2010 October 13 « Sara K. Schneider's Skin in the Game
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Sara K. Schneider's Skin in the Game. Reflections on body, culture, and spiritual practice. Who’s the Who of the Body? Adventures in Bodily Misrecognition. You’re in a conference room, wondering why all these seemingly intelligent people around the table can’t seem to remember what this “follow-up” meeting is a follow-up. Many of the world’s mystical traditions tell us that the apparent separateness of bodies covers over a deeper reality: that there is a seamless continuity between you and all thos...
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2010 October 15 « Sara K. Schneider's Skin in the Game
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Sara K. Schneider's Skin in the Game. Reflections on body, culture, and spiritual practice. Nati Baratz ‘s film Unmistaken Child. Documentary of 28-year-old Nepalese monk Tenzin Zopa’s four-year, and eventually successful, search throughout Nepal, Tibet, and India for the child calculated to be of the proper age — only one to one-and-a half years old — to be the reincarnation of his beloved master, the widely revered Geshe Lama Konchong. Is available at Netflix. October 15, 2010. The wheel greatly expand...
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Jill Bolte Taylor’s My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey « Sara K. Schneider's Skin in the Game
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Sara K. Schneider's Skin in the Game. Reflections on body, culture, and spiritual practice. Jill Bolte Taylor’s My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey. Likewise remarked the similarity of her mother’s state of mind, once Alzheimer’s disease had set in, to the state aspired to by Eastern and Western yogis alike and celebrated in Patanjali’s first yoga sutra, often translated as, “Yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind.”. Gradually, through years of rehabilitation and ten...
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School-Ready Resources for Kinesthetic, or Body-Based, Learning « Sara K. Schneider's Skin in the Game
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Sara K. Schneider's Skin in the Game. Reflections on body, culture, and spiritual practice. School-Ready Resources for Kinesthetic, or Body-Based, Learning. Armstrong, T. (2000). Multiple intelligences in the classroom. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Bryner, Andy, and Dawna Markova. 1996. An unused intelligence: A handbook for implementing the five disciplines of learning organizations. Berkeley, CA: Conari Press. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon. Griss, S. (1998).
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thinkingdr « Sara K. Schneider's Skin in the Game
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Sara K. Schneider's Skin in the Game. Reflections on body, culture, and spiritual practice. Nati Baratz ‘s film Unmistaken Child. Documentary of 28-year-old Nepalese monk Tenzin Zopa’s four-year, and eventually successful, search throughout Nepal, Tibet, and India for the child calculated to be of the proper age — only one to one-and-a half years old — to be the reincarnation of his beloved master, the widely revered Geshe Lama Konchong. Is available at Netflix. October 15, 2010. The wheel greatly expand...
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Blending in, Busting Out: Choices in Social Costuming « Sara K. Schneider's Skin in the Game
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Sara K. Schneider's Skin in the Game. Reflections on body, culture, and spiritual practice. Blending in, Busting Out: Choices in Social Costuming. Paparrazzi sculpture in Bratislava, Slovakia. As many a miserable celebrity has wondered, is there any escaping your body in public life? How unintelligible or indecipherable can you really make it? You — the way of dressing, the body shape, the hair style and color. These things can be changed within a day. Classroom, or an unobtrusive street stride where you...
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The Body’s Measure « Sara K. Schneider's Skin in the Game
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Sara K. Schneider's Skin in the Game. Reflections on body, culture, and spiritual practice. The Body’s Measure. 3,000 miles in 3 years. Not strictly by foot — by foot would take a lot less time. Let’s do the math (very, very roughly):. 3,000 miles: 3 years. That’s 1,000 miles per year: really, only 3 miles per day. That’s a pretty leisurely pace. But: taking 12 hours of travel-time to do those 3 miles. The prostrations of a pilgrim — for three years straight. The prostrations performed in pilgrimages of ...
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A Practice in Engaging the Ritual Dimension « Sara K. Schneider's Skin in the Game
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Sara K. Schneider's Skin in the Game. Reflections on body, culture, and spiritual practice. A Practice in Engaging the Ritual Dimension. Consider a ritual in which you are a central character–not the kind you have to wait a lifetime for, but one in which you participate virtually every day–saying goodbye. The act has both a ceremonial (a more outward) dimension and a ritual function. We come and leave as attendees to a lecture. Instead, perhaps even a lecture is an experience through which we might recog...