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Poster seen near SE Marine drive (right behind Lee Valley Tools actually). Great marketing!

I’ve just completed a 2-year meditation teachers’ training program and I’m offering a Level 1 meditation class.

Learn simple powerful meditation tools that work. This meditation style is practical, easy to learn and extremely effective. Designed for anyone interested in establishing a regular meditation practice; creating more peace, ease and clarity in one’s life. If you have had trouble establishing a regular meditation practice or if this is your introduction to meditation this class series will set you on course. We will not be sitting cross-legged on the floor, rather sitting in chairs, to create more ease as you learn the meditation techniques.

Learn how to center, ground your body, and own your personal space, along with many other energy management tools.

When:
May 23rd - July 11th (8 Wednesday Evenings)
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Where:
3161 3rd Ave W at Trutch, Vancouver.
Taking the class over the phone or via podcast is also possible.

Cost: $240 (plus GST)

Click here for more details

If you or someone you know might be interested, please contact me.

Lately I’ve really been enjoying two Flickr feeds - photos from my friends and photos from around Vancouver (where I live).

Following someone’s photos is a cool way to see what they are up to. It’s often more intimate then following their blog.

Also following a photo pool dedicated to a your hometown is a great way to see the area you live in through often hundreds of different eyes. I am regularly impressed by the high quality of photos.

An aside: I’m constantly surprised how many of my non-technical or semi-technical friends do not use a news aggregator (aka feed reader aka RSS reader). If you have interests, and use the Web, you can benefit from a news aggregator. If you are a knowledge worker of any kind, you’ll benefit immensely. I use Bloglines. I’ve heard good things about Google Reader and Netvibes too. These are web-based readers, and are free. There are also some great desktop-based readers out there, but I like the web-based ones better. They will increase the productivity and richness of your Web experience by a factor of 10. Guaranteed! Go get one! :)

The Globe and Mail reports:

Friends Ben Besler and Caleb Weitzel, both 29, have declared May “mullet month” in Vancouver. They’ve teamed up with 26-year-old hairstylist Vanessa Greenidge of Knotty Boy salon in East Vancouver. She is offering a $25 special on mullet haircuts all month and challenging other hairstylists to do the same.

I went to elementary and high school with these guys, once upon a time in the place to be. Good to see some local boys making good.

Versatile and low-maintenance, the mullet channels the vigour of the biblical Samson and his full-bodied hair.

Sounds pretty good. On the other hand, sporting a mullet might make people hate you, according to Wesley Willis:

The mullet is the reason why people hate you

They are sick of looking at your nappy weed-sack

We now know who Wesley was talking about: Iranian police.