From the monthly archives:

August 2008

Self-Love is the Key

August 29, 2008

So to sum up my musings about how yoga helped me. I wrote about mantra and it’s power to protect the mind from negativity. When you grow up in a traumatic world, you view the world as broken, problematic, inferior. Because that’s how you view yourself. With meditation, mantra, asana and story, we can start [...]

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Mythic Yoga Photos

August 29, 2008

See more photos of the Mythic Yoga Retreat 2008, making masks at the art cabin of Wendy Rochman in Rollinsville, Colorado!http://gallery.me.com/sydsol#100041  Like this post? Pass it on: Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it

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Dealing with Negativity

August 28, 2008

As I become aware of my story, I am aware more of my thoughts. I’m aware of just how much negativity still kicks around there, and I have to be super mindful to catch those thoughts.  We get programmed as children about what’s right and wrong. And if you had a particilarly traumatic upbringing, those [...]

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Attached to Our Stories

August 27, 2008

Mulling over yesterday’s post, I realize how long I’ve been telling that story about my childhood.  I used to tell it and tell it and tell it and that’s because I was so attached to it. I identified with it and it was part of me. My energy and emotions used to be wrapped up [...]

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Yoga and Your Personal Story

August 26, 2008

I have been asked to write a story about how yoga has influenced my life. Personal story is so important to me. It is the yoga. We are able to self reflect and see our “story” our history, that we have created and are identifying with, rather than the true Self.My older sister, Nancy, who [...]

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The Yoga Rocks Fest in Lyons

August 25, 2008

Namaste!Well, what a gorgeous place to hold a yoga festival! Lyons, Colorado, just north of Boulder, has this incredible park that used to be an old farm. It’s right next to the river and these stunning out croppings of rocks. I swear I’ve had several past lives as a Native American, so these special natural [...]

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The Mythic Yoga Retreat

August 21, 2008

Earlier this month four amazing women came from around the United States to train with me in Mythic Yoga and Storytime Yoga.We spent three and a half days together, beginning with a Mythic Yoga process. I taught Mythic Yoga classes, using the Hindu Myth of Narayana’s Dream, in which Vishnu dreams the world into existence [...]

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Using Story Card Art with Children’s Yoga

August 5, 2008

This morning I taught again at the commerce child care center in Boulder. I used some traditional Japanese storytelling cards, called Kamishibai, to tell stories this time. With a frame, I used a series of illustrated cards telling the story. There is the art and visual element, important for these very young 3 year olds, and [...]

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