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bicycle meditation ride through Cascade Bicycle Club
Please join me on this ride:
http://www.cascade.org/EandR/Activit...m?eventID=1544 Warm Regards, Claire Petersky ) Home of the meditative cyclist: http://home.earthlink.net/~cpetersky/Welcome.htm Books just wanna be FREE! See what I mean at: http://bookcrossing.com/friend/Cpetersky |
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bicycle meditation ride through Cascade Bicycle Club
Claire Petersky wrote:
Please join me on this ride: http://www.cascade.org/EandR/Activit...m?eventID=1544 Warm Regards, Claire Petersky ) Home of the meditative cyclist: http://home.earthlink.net/~cpetersky/Welcome.htm Hi Claire. Is this a typo? (from the site - Ride Detail): "Distance: +/- 10 mi." Sounds like a *very* ethereal ride. Ø¡Ø -- ***************************** Chuck Anderson • Boulder, CO http://www.CycleTourist.com Integrity is obvious. The lack of it is common. ***************************** |
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bicycle meditation ride through Cascade Bicycle Club
Chuck Anderson wrote in message news:6Y56b.369246$uu5.71028@sccrnsc04...
Claire Petersky wrote: Please join me on this ride: http://www.cascade.org/EandR/Activit...m?eventID=1544 Hi Claire. Is this a typo? (from the site - Ride Detail): "Distance: +/- 10 mi." Sounds like a *very* ethereal ride. I put down really low miles so that people get the idea, if you come, this is more of a class than a ride. The point is to learn how to coordinate your mind and body while riding in perhaps an unfamiliar way. At the same time, this is not a class in the sense that I lecture and everyone else listens. I personally am an experiential learner, and that's how this is going to be taught, too. My feeling is that you need to have your bike with you, and you need to be working out the techniques as soon as they were talked about and demonstrated. There have been times when I am particularly focused on mind/breathing/pedaling in such a way that I am going literally at half the pace that is my usual. The point in these cases, obviously, is not to cover ground, build up a sweat, or get to some place in a particularly speedy fashion. Sometimes you just have to go slow and build a skill before you can pick it up. It's really like doing a walking meditation. I have done walking meditations where the idea is to get the chi flowing and you are really hauling butt. But more typically, especially for beginners, the point is to slow everything down so that you really feel your body balancing as you shift your weight from one leg to the other, really feel the pressure on your foot as it presses against the ground, and so on. I hope this makes sense. This the first time I'm trying to teach this stuff IRL, so I do really appreciate suggestions and comments before I trot it out to the masses. Warm Regards, Claire Petersky ) Home of the meditative cyclist: http://home.earthlink.net/~cpetersky/Welcome.htm Books just wanna be FREE! See what I mean at: http://bookcrossing.com/friend/Cpetersky |
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bicycle meditation ride through Cascade Bicycle Club
In rec.bicycles.misc Luigi de Guzman wrote:
: by the way, I'm curious--If I'm supposed to be concentrating on the : breathing, how do I prevent from crashing into the guy in front? Hmm the normal way perhaps? :-) Also don't hug the wheel too closely. Yup I'd definitely join if I lived anywhere near Redmond. Too little have I devoted time to cycling meditation... maybes I'll some day go on a nice night ride, when I get new lights going... Is meditation different on a recumbent? I'd think a trike can give a different feeling to a ride, you can go very slowly or just stop and sit there. At least for sunbathing it would be great! -- Risto Varanka | http://www.helsinki.fi/~rvaranka/hpv/hpv.html varis at no spam please iki fi |
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bicycle meditation ride through Cascade Bicycle Club
"bgaudet0801" wrote in message . cable.rogers.com...
"Kevan Smith" /\/\ wrote in message ... On 5 Sep 2003 08:11:48 -0700, (Claire Petersky) from http://groups.google.com/ wrote: Please join me on this ride: http://www.cascade.org/EandR/Activit...m?eventID=1544 I'll conduct a simultaneous ride here to send good vibes. Do the Buddhist thing. Call Richard Gere and everyone can ride and project positive vibes. Do you have to bring your own gerbil? |
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bicycle meditation ride through Cascade Bicycle Club
"blech" wrote in message om... "bgaudet0801" wrote in message . cable.rogers.com... "Kevan Smith" /\/\ wrote in message ... On 5 Sep 2003 08:11:48 -0700, (Claire Petersky) from http://groups.google.com/ wrote: Please join me on this ride: http://www.cascade.org/EandR/Activit...m?eventID=1544 I'll conduct a simultaneous ride here to send good vibes. Do the Buddhist thing. Call Richard Gere and everyone can ride and project positive vibes. Do you have to bring your own gerbil? Gerbils are stricly optional. -- 'Sell your sin Just cash in' -Jewell |
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bicycle meditation ride through Cascade Bicycle Club
In article ,
(Claire Petersky) wrote: Please join me on this ride: http://www.cascade.org/EandR/Activit...m?eventID=1544 *packs his bike and moves to Redmond* Alas, that's not realistic. Congratulations on doing this IRL!!! That's so awesome! I'm interested, but if we can somehow do it in Chicago. I would imagine a fair number of people would be interested. Are you planning to roll out, maybe a "training program" so others can participate? Maybe something to think about as you develop this first ride. Cheers and good luck! |
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bicycle meditation ride through Cascade Bicycle Club
"Donny Harder Jr." wrote in message .. .
I would imagine a fair number of people would be interested. We'll see. I have no sense of it. Cascade was at least willing to put it up on their daily rides sheet, but I haven't heard anyone say they're coming. Are you planning to roll out, maybe a "training program" so others can participate? Maybe something to think about as you develop this first ride. If I have sufficient interest, I'd do this as a monthly ride. I'm already beginning to regret the location, although the trail has the advantage of being easy to ride and everyone knows it. Here's the plan: Get a sense of people's bicycling and meditation experience. Do some coordinated stretching/breathing exercises, maybe as structured as sun salutations, maybe not. Talk about intentions and how to set them. Introduce the idea of using pedalling or breathing as a focus for the mind. Ride a little. Get everyone's feedback, and ride a little more. If people have this down, then the next step is to talk a little about the music in your brain when you ride. We'd then do a little very basic chanting. I realize using your voice in this culture is scary as all hell, so I'll have to do some to establish trust among the group and also do this sufficiently off of the trail such that people are willing to do it with sufficient kavanah. After that, we all get on our bikes and ride a little. Get feedback, answer questions, ride a little more. Final segment, if we have time, talk about making blessings, only on the very basic level. Ride a little, talk a little about the experience, answer questions, and get on the bike, and ride a little more. Anyone who is speedy can do breathing/stretching/meditation work while waiting for the others to catch up to each rendezvous point. We may not get through all of this -- I'm not planning to spend more than two hours on it. If all we do is part one, and the other sections happen another day, that's fine with me. The next question is -- hot lunch afterwards where? It's pouring rain right now, so the idea of Pho sounds appealing. Warm Regards, Claire Petersky ) Home of the meditative cyclist: http://home.earthlink.net/~cpetersky/Welcome.htm Books just wanna be FREE! See what I mean at: http://bookcrossing.com/friend/Cpetersky |
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bicycle meditation ride through Cascade Bicycle Club
In rec.bicycles.misc Claire Petersky wrote:
: "Donny Harder Jr." wrote in message .. . : I would imagine a fair number of people would be interested. : We'll see. I have no sense of it. Cascade was at least willing to put : it up on their daily rides sheet, but I haven't heard anyone say : they're coming. Maybe it could be a limited interest, people doing meditation and people doing cycling both are small minorities. You'd need to come from at least one of the angles and explain what's the point (or the benefit) of combining them both. Are you trying to draw cyclists to meditation or meditating people to cycling? Cycling is a sort of moving meditation. Maybe it would fit people who can't just sit. Then again your movement is somewhat restricted on a bike, and cycling is more directed towards exploring the environment than towards self-expression. How does meditation fit into cycling? Can it be a form of training? (Interesting question as I haven't actively meditated for years but I have a strong training programme for cycling.) I've seen some discussion of breathing technique or keeping mental focus, but that's about all... it seems these arts never got advanced so far here as in the orient. Maybes I should study your site more carefully :-) Cascade is probably a better marketing channel for reaching cyclists... -- Risto Varanka | http://www.helsinki.fi/~rvaranka/hpv/hpv.html varis at no spam please iki fi |
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