Re: Alex's project - and questions about relaxing

2009-10-30 Thread Koos de Heer
Hi Bernd, Thanks, it's good to hear that. I am now off to a weekend training workshop where we will be working with all these themes (breathing, stretching, meditation, even bliss) a lot. Looking forward to it! See you all again next week. Koos At 04:57 29-10-2009, Bernd Weber wrote: Dear

Re: Alex's project - and questions about relaxing

2009-10-29 Thread Bernd Weber
Dear Koos, what you wrote helped me very much to become clearer on this topic, which has been interesting and important for me since a long while What you offer is: pragmatic knowledge about relaxing and you are not "nebulous" when doing so. Very often when I want to talk about such questio

Re: Alex's project - and questions about relaxing

2009-10-17 Thread Koos de Heer
Hi Alex, Interesting questions. I will give you my thoughts on this. I will relate my thoughts to stretching, breathing and visualization, because I understand those are the topics you are interested in. Of course, there are many more ways to relax (e.g. take a walk, get a massage, take a nap

Re: Alex's project - and questions about relaxing

2009-10-17 Thread Denise Tennen
A comment on Koos' comment about visualizing: If visualizing is something important to you, I would suggest visualizing yourself, as facilitator, being as relaxed , open and flowing about the event you are about to lead as possible. I agree with Koos that visualizing anything about how the

Re: Alex's project - and questions about relaxing

2009-10-16 Thread Denise Tennen
Hi Alex Relaxing is ALWAYS appropriate - even if a lion is about to attack you... (and I've never encountered a lion during OST) Denise On Oct 16, 2009, at 7:20 PM, Alex Iglecia wrote: My questions to you as facilitators are: 1. How does relaxing affect performance, and when it is innappr

Alex's project - and questions about relaxing

2009-10-16 Thread Alex Iglecia
My questions to you as facilitators are: 1. How does relaxing affect performance, and when it is innappropriate? 2. Does "bliss" actually exist, and would you call anything in group process bliss? 3. Please say something about OST and reducing tension - something surprising... Thank you! I've pos