From the monthly archives:

June 2008

The Garden Divine

June 26, 2008

Nowhere do I find more peace and find a direct link to the divine than when I am in the garden. To witness the beauty of a bumble bee sucking from a purple borage flower in my vegetable garden gives me a glimpse into something deeper. This depth touches my psyche, my soul, down to [...]

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Awake Children

June 26, 2008

Yesterday I taught three classes of children between theages of 5 and 12 at the Augustana Early Learning Center in Denver. I am like a traveling shaman, with my bag of mystery.Gathering the children around is definitely a ritual. I’m this special visitorwith this big bag in which puppets, musical instruments, maps and otherinteresting objects [...]

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Of Bikes, Mopeds and the Telluride Children’s Yoga Festival

June 20, 2008

This afternoon I rode my new, little pink Buddy 50 moped down Broadway and to the Boulder Public Library where I write you now! Riding my bike to the studio and everywhere from home just didn’t cut it for my 41-year-old body. I can’t believe that at 22 I used to commute from Denver to [...]

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Peace for the World’s Children begins with you!

June 19, 2008

Books not Bombs Love not Hatred Hope Not Despair   These are the words on some stationary I received in a letter from a man in Kosovo. The words are written inside a picture of a man in a garden, watering a plant that is yearning for the sun as it grows out of a [...]

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The Second Renaissance: Cross Curriculum Teaching Children Through Yoga and Story

June 10, 2008

Well! Another children’s yoga class! What I am delighting in is how we can blend so many elements into one little class! I certainly love the physical energy and movement of hatha yoga asana, but yoga for children is so much more!   It is to integrate the whole child with the world and align [...]

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Maybe, Maybe Not

June 9, 2008

Gas prices a problem? Maybe, maybe not. These were the wise words from a neighbor in a famous Chinese story. A farmer loses his horse, and tells his neighbor that it’s the worst thing that can happen to him. The neighbor simply says, “Maybe, maybe not.” The horse comes back with another horse and the farmer [...]

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A New Kind of Children’s Yoga Class

June 5, 2008

Well, my first children’s yoga class at the Storytime Yoga studio in Boulder went well! We have elementary kids of all ages. I was happy to have them in my space created just for children and families. I used the Shipwrecked Sailor from Egypt about courage and seeing the good that comes out of the [...]

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