A few good things (including at least one VERY good thing)

1. I made a book! (Wait, did I already tell you about this?)

The first (VERY) good thing this week is that my book is available for sneaky-sneaky pre-launch preview. It won’t actually be official launched until the end of February. But if you are in the know (which you obviously are, since you are here), you can buy it now through this online store. If you have any trouble with that link, try copying and pasting this into a new browser window:

http://tinyurl.com/ZenUnderFire

If you are in New Zealand you can wait and buy it in your local bookstore in late February/March. But if you are elsewhere, buying through this site will be your best bet. This edition (by Penguin NZ) won’t be available on Amazon.

Next week I’m going to be offering a special sneak-preview package (including a brand new, never been offered before online course) to anyone who buys Zen Under Fire online. So if you go ahead and buy it this week, keep your email receipt from Fishpond and you’ll be eligible.

2. How to do yoga and not die (well, not immediately at least)

This response from Sarah Miller to the New York Times ‘How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body‘ article made me laugh out loud. She argues that the New York Times has to write articles like this because “about the only thing that will get upper-middle-class coast dwellers into a frenzy is the idea … that Some Day They Are Going To Fucking Die.” She also suggests that ”if you think of yoga as a great way to breathe more, well, you’re not going to get hurt,” which convinced me I never wanted to miss another of Sarah’s articles.

(The Observer put together a list of the 10 best responses to that New York Times article. I vote for Sarah’s but some of the others are worth a read too. But only if you’re not to going sit and read articles about yoga instead of doing yoga. Yes, I may be speaking from experience.)

3. Chakras in the combat zone?

One of the questions I ask myself about my plan to take my yoga workshops to Afghanistan is just how ready people working in a combat zone are to talk about their energy bodies or the effect savasana pose can have on their parasympathetic nervous system.

Turns out I’m not alone in pondering this question, as Mette Muller proves in ‘Don’t tell them you’re a healer – spirituality in the development discourse.’

Given that I have friends who have taught yoga on oil rigs, and in prisons and army bases, I’m pretty confident it can be taught anywhere. But I might want to leave some of my more flowery yoga language at home. Note to self, when teaching on an army base: that is not his third chakra, those are his rock hard abs.

4. Choice things in the Big Apple

If you live in or near New York and have any interest at all in New Zealand culture (and if you’ve ever seen the Flight of the Conchords, heard Liam Finn play or watched the film Boy then my guess is you do) then you’ll want to get on The Choice List. Presented with the support of the famous Kiwi coffee and pie shop Dub Pies (bringing handmade, authentic Australian/New Zealand-style gourmet meat pies to New York City), The Choice List is selected by Gemma Gracewood who once worked for New Zealand’s Minister for Culture, now plays in one of New Zealand’s best loved bands and knows everything you need to know about the best of New Zealand in New York.

5. Time to teach

Do you have something you would love to teach, but wonder whether you are really ready? Or when you get to be ‘qualified enough’? Teach Now is the course that helped me grow in confidence as a teacher, and Jen Louden and Michelle Lisenbury, are now two of my favorite people and most admired teachers on the planet. Registration for Teach Now with a bonus year of free integration calls closes today. For teachers who are soulful, connected, wise, and inspiring. Or those who ready to be.

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