Learning Conversation

8 min

Today's word is:  Embodiment

Today's Learning Practice is with Jen Bleier, a somatic educator.  She offers up the perfect word!  Embodiment.  

Join us in this exercise of practicing conversatio…

38 min.  

Interview:  Jen Bleier, Somatic Educator

Maureen and Pierre interview Jen Bleier, friend and somatic educator.  Trained in Gyrotonic, Gyrokinesis, Pilates, Somatic Experience practitioner, …

Response-ability training is an online educational program to provide people with knowledge and skills to respond to their experiences, as opposed to merely reactiving and over-reacting chronically a…

5 min

Today's word is:  Happy

Maureen references a documentry on Happy - 2012 movie. Is happy a good goal?

Join the conversation.  

Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single w…

Maureen begins the pod energized having just taught a yoga class. 

With over 175 published podcasts on resources, practices, discussions, interviews, reflections, we…

5 min

Today's word is:  Suffering

Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learnin…

24 min

Maureen and Pierre discuss spiritual traditions of solitude versus the disaffectation of anxiety and isolation. 

Spiritual practices include: Jesus in the desert for 40 days.  Thoreau “On Wald…

5 min

Today's word is:  Orange

Color or fruit. Double espresso's and Pierre's got hop at the buzzer + one.

Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, withou…

15 min

What does it mean to be fit?

How do you stay fit?  If you want to be fitter, how do you do that?What motivates you? 

Maureen found a gym that has been motivating her towards building strength …

21 min

Jon Kabat- Zinn is today’s resource.  

Kabat-Zinn is a professor emeritus of the University of Massachusetts Medical School.  He received a Ph.D. in molecular biology for MIT in 1971. He is on…

5 min

Today's word is:  message.

Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learning…

15 min

Today's Learning Conversation is about the death of conversation.

Maureen and Pierre share thoughts on the value and importance of conversation for health and wellness in a democracy . 

The De…

5 min

Today's word is:  opportunity

Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learn…

17 min

Listen to Maureen and Pierre podcasting from their less than professional sound studios!

Pierre introduces a resource that Maureen has not heard of, read about, or taught.  Wow!  Score one for…

30 min

Pierre is retired and working.  Wait, what? Why? What does retirment mean? What does work mean?

Work and retirement are the subjects of today’s podcast.  

The action of leaving one’s job: reti…

15 min

Health and fitness questions from Pierre.  Answers from Maureen. Or is it questions that answer from Maureen? 

This is a pretty hilarious account of Pierre’s inquiry into how to use a gym.  Ma…

5 min

Today's word is:  Radical

Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learning …

18 min

Pierre and Maureen introduce a resource:  Yuval Noah Harari.  

Listen to the end of the podcast and find out why Pierre is so happy.  :-) 

This podcast veers from Learning Conversation’s usual…

5 min.

Today's word from Maureen is:  Pushing.

Maureen wants to move away from nouns. Her word pushing, pushes Pierre right into Forumla 1.  Push, push, push. Hilarious practice where Pierre speaks s…

25 min

Maureen and Pierre wander a bit off the road of spiritual mind body health by discussing “narratives.”  

Pierre’s been wondering about the term “narrative.” He is a little hesitant to expres…