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The Golden Princess: Create Original Fairy Tales to Combine with Yoga and Help Kids Cope with Stress

November 4, 2011

Early one morning my daughter came into my room complaining of a serious stomachache and “nervousness.” She said she felt like throwing up. After talking with her for a while, she revealed the feeling of pressure. Having a learning disability in addition to dyslexia, she is frequently behind in school and gets confused. She complained [...]

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A New Beginning

December 7, 2009

It has been a challenging few months. The effects of my husband’s death nearly seven years ago continues to rear its head. As my young children have grown older, I see the effects in their learning disabilities, anger and upset, as well as in myself, realizing the full effect of post traumatic stress disorder. Indeed, [...]

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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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Svadyaya and Narrative Therapy

June 16, 2009

I went to the season finale of Boulder’s Playback Theatre West last Saturday with some old high school friends. It was an outrageous evening in which four actors improv your life’s stories. The audience will tell something simple, such as how a garage sale went, to something deeper, such as nervousness about going into high [...]

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