Tantek Çelik

Inventor, writer, teacher, runner, indieweb coder, and more.

  1. a jpg. a jpg. a jpg. a jpg. a jpg. a jpg. a jpg. a jpg. a jpg. a jpg. #100DoPP d58: Calm sea, thus calm air. Tennessee Valley to the beach, steps up to lookout point. No wind, so I ventured up a steep single-track ridge trail with views for the patient, persistent, and adventurous. #neverstopexploring #nofear #nofilter

    Then a rapid descent back down from Coyote Ridge trail to Tennessee Valley, passing through the fern & eucalyptus forests of Rhubarb trail before returning to SFRC.

    #seenonmyrun #tennesseevalley #beach #sea #calmsea #overcast #calmair #singletrack #ridge #trail #views #run #trailrun #runner #hike #climb #marin #ca #fern #ferns #eucalyptus #heysweatdaily

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  2. #100DoPP d57: 50/200h i.e. 25% of YTT done!
    Practiced assists on each other tonight; more practice class leading too!

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  3. There are two kinds of people: those ok with depending on surplus & generosity from others, and those ok with providing surplus & generosity to others. Those may be orthogonal: you may be neither or both. You may sometimes be one, and at other times another.

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  4. Started to study and learn anatomy in YTT tonight. Challenging but satisfying.
    #100DoPP d56

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  5. went to Matter San Francisco Happy Hour tonight @MatterVC.
    Nice catching up with @BenWerd @ErinJO @eliservescent!
    #100DoPP d55

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  6. DST late track: abs, increasing faster 3x(400m, 90s stretch)
    Midday Pi day 5k + 203m up.
    Prev: tantek.com/2017/066/t1/back-tuesday-track

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  7. a jpg. 🌼 Happy Gregorian pi day! #spring #flowers #sf #ca #seenonmyrun #nofilter #100DoPP d54

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  8. #100DoPP d53:
    2016 taxes done & reviewed. e-file authorizations signed & mailed. Expecting auto-deposit refunds soon.

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  9. What is the story being told?
    What is the story you are hearing?
    What are the stories not being told?
    What are the stories you are not hearing?

    Is it truth masquerading as art?
    Or is it art masquerading as truth?

    Do you seek understanding for itself?
    Or are you afraid of ambiguity?
    Are you seeking to know?
    Or are you running from the unknown?

    What are the questions being asked?
    What are the questions you are hearing?
    What are the questions not being asked?
    What are the questions you are not hearing?

    Are you questioning what you fear?
    Are you questioning what you accept?

    (Thoughts and reactions during the sixth of seven 10 minute guided meditations in yoga teacher training 2017-03-12 (tantek.com/2017/072/t1/ytt-pranayama-bhandas-philosophy), written down in the five minutes immediately after the meditation.)

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  10. #100DoPP d52: 43/200h (21%+) YTT done!

    Learned & practiced Pranayama, Bhandas, more leading, meditations (specifically meditations from chakras).

    The chakras meditations in particular were the last thing we did today (Sunday), during which I had a bit of a “Doctor Strange” skeptic moment …

     “I don’t believe in fairy tales about chakras, or energy, or the power of belief.” https://youtu.be/Lt-U_t2pUHI?t=55s (time index 55s)

    … both when we started learning about chakras, and during the seven 10 minute guided meditations on each in particular.

    As a scientist, I treat all such systems as mysticism, more stories and art than reality.

    I tried to keep an open mind in two ways:
    1. The benefits of meditation (as have been scientifically studied)
    2. To learn and appreciate such mystic systems/beliefs as aspects of a culture (anthropology), rather than reality or models of the natural world to be subjected to critical inquiry (science)

    After each 10 minute guided meditation, we took five minutes to journal our notes on each experience. I had a different reaction to each one.

    But by the fifth in particular I had a feeling of having had enough, of such mysticism, mythology, that they were unnecessary, that I could not relate to them, and just wanted to reject it all.

    During the sixth meditation, I was able to turn that emotional reaction of rejection into a more directed confrontation of questions and challenges.

    Our teacher had been asking us to share our thoughts and reactions, and I said this one meditation in particular had made me think of many questions. I asked if I should share them. He invited me to do so. So I read them out loud: tantek.com/2017/072/t2/stories-truth-art-questions.

    Previous YTT posts:
    * tantek.com/2017/071/t1/surprise-ytt-class-pizza-rose-friends
    * tantek.com/2017/064/t3/ytt-led-sun-salutations
    * tantek.com/2017/064/t1/enjoying-yoga-vinyasa-flow-learning
    * tantek.com/2017/063/t1/ytt-inspiring-teachers-students
    * tantek.com/2017/061/t1/yoga-asked-demonstrate-headstand
    * tantek.com/2017/059/t2/ytt-sf-challenges
    * tantek.com/2017/058/t1/yoga-teacher-training-anticipating

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  11. Happy US DST!
    Remember: adjust your microwave, oven clocks etc.
    Be grateful they’re not networked.
    #iot #AdamaWasRight

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  12. #100DoPP d51:
    From a surprise signed card (& song) by YTT class, to pizza+rosé & friends, it was a good bday. #grateful

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  13. a jpg. a jpg. a jpg. a jpg. 🌆🌄 6y ago: ran ~0.5km.
    Today: ran 0.5km UP in 72min & 7.2km.
    #100DoPP d50: Grateful for #NPSF, #predawn #rungang, so much support & inspiration from so many dedicated individuals who #justshowup week after week and #crush it. #nofear #nofilter.

    And the totally unexpected incredible birthday week surprise from our fearless leader & bosslady Laura Green.

    #earlygang 📷 @_tod_
    #champagne 📷 @CourtPancakes

    #seenonmyrun #iwokeuplikethis #whileyouweresleeping #wakeupthesun #fromwhereirun #hillsforbreakfast #run #novemberproject #runner #heysweatdaily #runners #sf #coronaheights #coronaheightspark #coronaheightspeak #coronaheightssummit

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  14. a jpg. ☕️ Almond latte, window sign shadows. #thursdayvibes #nofilter
    #100DoPP d49.

    #latte #almondlatte #heart #latteart #sunshine #shadows #coffee

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  15. a jpg. #100DoPP d48:
    📷 by Katy Kunkle. Even #UCBerkeley fan @mitchwestwood wore #red @nov_project_sf in honor of #internationalwomensday. #nofilter

    #runner #runners #npsf #novemberproject #fromwhereirun #heysweatdaily #gostanford

    👤 Mitch Westwood(f,t), Tantek Çelik(f,t,••)
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  16. a jpg. Chasing Lizzy & friends to a 0:43 200m PR & 1:35 400m PR! 📷 Bill Wheeler #tracktuesday #latergram

    Inner dialog: tantek.com/2017/066/t2/runner-tantek
    200m PR: https://strava.com/activities/891049966/segments/21700440693
    400m PR: https://strava.com/activities/891049966/segments/21700440706

    #run #kezar #runner #track #runners #sunrise #pr #kezarstadium

    👤 Tantek Çelik(f,t,••), Lizzy Gregory(f)
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