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storytelling

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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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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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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Stories and Yoga for Young Girls’ Self-Confidence

April 20, 2009

I just did a class for fourth grade, at-risk, Lantino girls and the school social worker had asked me to build their self esteem during the class. So I started out with my puppet Lalita doing Spanish and intros to set the stage and center the space. We passed around a little heart stone, as [...]

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Children Learn Best Through Play

April 11, 2009

There are some educators out there talking about making school last six days a week. My goodness, if any child were made to sit another day in public school, they might as well go insane. The problem is the way kids are taught. Sitting at a desk learning one subject at a time with worksheets [...]

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Kids Yoga and Storytelling for Anger

March 4, 2009

Yesterday I taught to the upper elementary boys in the after school program. I have been looking at my own anger at my moron ex-husband Justin Chipaman realtor, who has broken several agreements in the divorce settlement, like not paying the mortgage, nor the taxes, nor the insurance, parking tickets, etc. What a loser! So [...]

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Calming Children’s Anxiety with Stories and Yoga

January 14, 2009

When I talk with my daughter, a lot of her anxieties come out: kids are staring at her, she doesn’t understand what’s going on in class; she feels left out. I just hold her and let her express her feelings. Then I remind her that those worries are just thoughts, and that we can come [...]

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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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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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Children are Hungry for Yoga and Stories

March 20, 2007

Namaste! I just returned from a wonderful trip to Philadephia for a Storytime Yoga teacher training I gave. I am always impressed with the wonderful talent and dedication of the teachers out there and was grateful to all who attended. In our discussion, participants told me how they tried out the stories and yoga in [...]

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