tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449952380128375575.post3172538355490821754..comments2024-03-21T00:30:14.738-07:00Comments on Yoga in the Dragon's Den: Lifting the Fog of BlahnessNobelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00655577410721103577noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449952380128375575.post-40285560826771223102011-01-12T16:17:44.402-08:002011-01-12T16:17:44.402-08:00Cathrine, yes, I think you are right that teaching...Cathrine, yes, I think you are right that teaching is very much a performance art. One of my colleagues voiced the same sentiment recently. <br /><br />Yyogini, I had (and still have) a lot of nervous energy related to public speaking, especially before a class. But I like to think it gets better; at least, one learns how to deal with it more productively.Nobelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00655577410721103577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449952380128375575.post-24846465633551957912011-01-12T15:42:34.676-08:002011-01-12T15:42:34.676-08:00I really love this post! I agree with the communic...I really love this post! I agree with the communicating part. However I intensely dislike speaking in front of an audience. It only gives me nervous energy that I want to sweep off of me afterwards.Yoginihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09483919150641771008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1449952380128375575.post-37221647183145659262011-01-11T02:48:43.099-08:002011-01-11T02:48:43.099-08:00Hi Nobel,
I liken being a professor, in front of ...Hi Nobel,<br /><br />I liken being a professor, in front of a group of students, to being a performer. Yes, indeed, we are homo logos. I feel the same way. As a teacher of teachers, I often teach in the evenings (after public school hours) from 7 to 9:30 p.m. <br /><br />All day I work in my office prepping classes, editing journal-article-hopefuls, and some days I spend all day in faculty meetings; then at a time I used to consider the end of my day, I teach.<br /><br />So I grab my clip-on smile from my desk, draw from my acting experience in my younger days, and I get ready to perform! Once I get to class, I go into "ham bone" mode no matter how tired I thought I was(I love an audience). Lecturing/professing is a wonderful profession for Homo logos!<br /><br />And now for the snow. . . what a shock I got returning to New Jersey with 4 feet of snow piled up on every street corner! All I can say is "wow" and "wow" and wonder how we went from what I neglected to appreciate as the cushy life of graduate students living in sunny, hot & humid Gainesville to professors in the snowy Northeast. What the heck?Cathrinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11152498049699614729noreply@blogger.com