Tag: empathy

• In Praise of Yawning

  

  (Based on the lecture portion of my sleep workshop “Snoozefest: How to Practice Yoga for a Good Night’s Sleep”) Yawns are the best. Virtually all vertebrates do it, with humans yawning as early as 12 weeks in gestation. A unstifled yawn is literally a breath of fresh air. It feels fantastic. Humankind doesn’t fully understand […]

  Richard Gartner | Frameworks Yoga

  03/14/2019

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• Empathy on World Kindness Day

  

  Today is World Kindness Day, which for 19 years has been suggesting we explore the question “What does kindness mean to us?” It comes in many forms. For me, the most intriguing is empathy. It started with a conversation my wife and I had over the defintion. We realized we had different notions of what […]

  Richard Gartner | Frameworks Yoga

  11/13/2017

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