Listening Now Blog

This week’s post is written by the delightful Larisa Koehn.  Larisa does the impossible – she provides us with simple tools that help us do something profound – listen to our body.  Larisa knows what she’s talking about – two decades of living with migraines has taught her the importance of self-care ….. and of magical listening.   [...]

Jedi listeners are exceptional at listening.  Thankfully, they also leave clues.  If you pay attention you can decipher the things that Jedi listeners do, and who they are being, that make them so great.  If you’re really serious, you can emulate them and become more of a Jedi listener yourself.  So what are these hidden keys that [...]

I love autobiographies, memoirs, slice of life stories – anything to do with other people is fascinating to me. I was reading Alan Alda’s first autobiography and he said something very interesting about when he really learned what the craft of acting was about.  He’d been acting for a while and thought he knew what it [...]

Conversation is one of the things that makes this thing called being human fulfilling.  We are the only beings on the planet capable of conversation using words (although I have had some very intriguing conversations with my cat, she never uses words to get her viewpoint across).  Part of what makes a conversation great is [...]