Articles & Podcasts
Explore Better Ways To Get Where You're Going
Ways To Wisdom
Winter solitude / in a world of one color / the sound of wind. – Basho
| Past Sightings |
|---|
The Water Element |
Dojo Experiences
Conscious Connections
Centering Solutions
Centering Is A Solution
“Meetings” happen all the time: most of the time with other people—all of the time with yourself. How you prepare for these meetings has a major effect on their outcomes. And knowing how to center yourself is the decisive factor in getting your needs met—while developing and maintaining good relationships with those you meet along the way.
Being Centered
To be centered is to feel balanced—your breath flowing smoothly, your mind and body calmly alert—adapting to the situation at hand. Centering breeds clarity, clarity summons courage, and courage leads you down the path of the right action.
Centering happens when you re-member: when you allow the various aspects of yourself—your body, mind, and intention—to naturally realign, enabling you to focus all of your capabilities on what you need, or want to achieve.
When you’re centered, what you’ve trained yourself to do—mentally and physically—will emerge spontaneously. And if you’ve remembered to train yourself well, centering provides you with the solution you need at any given moment.
BalancePoint Coaching
The BalancePoint Coaching process draws on the power of the meditative martial arts by showing you how to get back in touch with your physical sense of balance—and use it to explore, discover, and examine the events and experiences you’re encountering, and distill out solutions from the understandings that bubble-up when you know how to think and act from your balance point.
BalancePoint Coaching begins by identifying the inner resources you already have, and that are available to guide you in your discovery and decision-making process. Together, we work to discover new ways to draw on these resources and focus them on the goals and experiences you want to achieve.
Coaching at BIOM helps you make sure that “the road less traveled” doesn’t turn out to be “the road not traveled.”
Aikido—A Step on the Way
Aikido is “a way of being - in harmony - with yourself - and your environment.” This unique and effective meditative martial art shows you how to manage sudden, and often brutal, challenges and setbacks, by blending with and redirecting them in the direction of health and well-being.
Applying aikido principles and techniques - like centering, blending, redirecting, and others - enable you to deal with verbal, psychological, and physical attacks.