From the monthly archives:

July 2009

Storytime Yoga and Mythic Yoga for Youth at the Pine Ridge Reservation

July 26, 2009

I am very excited to go to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota with Yoga World Reach. We leave Tuesday and teach Wednesday. We will also be doing a radio show about yoga and trauma. My whole life I have wanted to visit a reservation and get up close with Native Americans. And now [...]

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Mythic Yoga: Vishnu’s Dream

July 25, 2009

I spent three hours suspending time and space this afternoon at Samadhi Yoga where I taught teacher trainees about Hindu myths, psychology and yoga. I spoke in images and found what kinds of responses the trainees had from experiencing those images, carried through the symbol of sound and words. It’s the conveyance of and the [...]

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Hindu Deities and Mythology

July 24, 2009

Well, the kids and I had a nice vacation in Telluride this week. Despite all the natural elements around them they prefer to hang out by the pool and just relax. Can’t blame them and I don’t push them into anything anymore. No projections! But I drove 90 mph back home, stopping only twice in [...]

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Householder Yogini Cleans Her Own House

July 11, 2009

I realize that my practice is all about being a householder yogini. As a single, widowed mother life for me is my two children, my home, and my work. It’s  a day-to-day cacophony of love and joy fused with chaos and insanity made cohesively possible thanks to a regular practice of yoga, meditation and storytelling. [...]

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Hindu Deities and Mythology

July 8, 2009

In my Children’s Yoga Teacher trainings, my mission and philosophy is that the teacher goes through their own transformation using yoga and storytelling, and that is passed down to the child one teaches. A mythic life begins with connecting to metaphors of the eternal. These clues to the transcendent help us break out of the [...]

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The Mythic Yoga Retreat and Training

July 1, 2009

Namaste! We have come to an end of the second annual Mythic Yoga Retreat and Training held here in Boulder as people made the journey toward a mythic life.  Whether it was practicing yoga, listening to or telling stories, creating art work, walking and spending time in nature, eating together and singing together and being [...]

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