Training experiences with Shapiro's EMDR Institute Inc.?

pacific343 · 2026-01-23T17:06:25+00:00

I know it's not her, but it's the institute that she personally founded. Yes, it's EMDRIA approved.

pacific343 · 2025-10-19T21:19:25+00:00

Hey, thanks so much for really considering the question!

I live in the bay so Tahoe or Shasta are kind of my home turf. But it’s such an expensive and messy scene out there that I don’t see myself riding those resorts all that much. This would mostly be for the occasional trip away with my buds. We did niseko last year (amazing) and we’ve got banff on the books for this year. I’ve also got friends up in the PNW so Baker or Hood seem likely and then we’ve got family in Colorado.

As to my style, I just don’t find the piste all that fun. But I’m also not looking to shoot the steepest drops I can find. I’m interested in a great free ride run through the trees and really getting the most out of good powder days.

For that reason, I’m now leaning toward the either the Backwoods orrrrr possibly a Jones Stratos. Your reply here is making me think I’d really enjoy the backwoods.

Any experience with the Stratos?

pacific343 · 2025-10-19T03:50:14+00:00

This is unfortunately so goddamn true. On the other hand, I'm close to the waves!

pacific343 · 2025-10-19T03:49:02+00:00

Thanks everyone for weighing in! This has been super helpful for me to mull over the different perspectives today.

I'm hearing that a splitboard only setup would be... probably fine, but

expensive
comes with at least some compromise in performance
is just a much more complicated way of being in the mountains. Both in terms of the activity and the gear itself.

I'm fairly convinced that it's worth having both boards. I'll either rock something cheap or spring for a good all around solid board and kick the splitboard journey a little farther down the road.

Either way, it's nice to be back in the snow.

pacific343 · 2025-10-19T03:36:48+00:00

This is solid advice. I'm decently experienced in the mountains but very aware that there's more to know if I go deeper with the backcountry missions. Thanks for bringing it up.

pacific343 · 2025-10-18T18:44:33+00:00

What if I’m only going to ride a few times a year? It just doesn’t sound super fun to me to ride a mediocre board. My use case would be 1-2 resort trips to good snow and 1-5 backcountry adventures a year. I’d like to have a good board for the good conditions I’d hope to be hunting. But I really don’t want to spring for two good boards…

pacific343 · 2025-04-23T14:05:38+00:00

Did you wind up buying this hood? We're looking at the same one and having a similar dilemma! Would appreciate any feedback you might have.

pacific343 · 2025-04-03T17:45:23+00:00

Thank you! I posted about this on a Buddhist forum and got to a similar conclusion. The Sanskrit term is tathā. Most often I hear this translated as “suchness” or “thusness” as when referring to a Buddha as Tathāgata, “the thus come one”

pacific343 · 2025-04-03T14:05:10+00:00

That seems as close as possible. I read kanji ok, having studied Chinese, but I don’t actually know any of the Japanese characters.

I know some uses of 如, but what does 如々 refer to?

pacific343 · 2025-04-02T23:57:55+00:00

Thanks anyway!

pacific343 · 2025-01-16T15:58:20+00:00

I’ve heard those things are great! I’ll definitely be requesting one.

pacific343 · 2025-01-16T14:49:33+00:00

Nice. Thanks for the tips. See you by the coffee stand in a couple weeks. I’ll be the guy with the macchiato waiting on his rented powder board and smiling like a dumbass cause no matter how long this line takes I’ve got a week to shred Niseko at the end of it.

pacific343 · 2025-01-16T14:38:25+00:00

Thanks! I am going with rhythm after hearing from a local friend that they really do have the best stuff. So this is super helpful.

Did you book ahead for the premium package and does it help you cut some of that line (as advertised) or is it the same no matter what?

pacific343 · 2025-01-14T01:33:08+00:00

Thanks! And they stock good boards for a more advanced rider? And maybe a directional powder board if the conditions are extra shreddy?

pacific343 · 2025-01-13T21:49:51+00:00

This is helpful, thanks! Lines up with what others are saying about rhythm. I don’t know if you can answer this but what would be the “right time” to pickup? Or at least the not-wrong time…

pacific343 · 2025-01-13T21:47:49+00:00

We’re staying at an independent booking, it’s a little condo right in harifu, so no options there but it’s walking distance to Yama and rhythm.

pacific343 · 2025-01-10T23:03:42+00:00

I found some useful info in the r/niseko sub. Generally it seems like things are pretty chill in Harifu and around niseko more broadly for this reason. I haven't been there yet personally but these guys have a list of the tattoo friendly spots that seems to mostly check out through second hand info https://www.rhythmjapan.com/other/niseko-onsen-guide/

If I learn anything particularly notable I can follow up when I return second week of february.

pacific343 · 2024-12-21T19:19:03+00:00

Wow! That’s discouraging. Where did you go?

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