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The Storytime Yoga Children’s Mission at the Montserrat Public Library

August 19, 2010

When traveling, one never knows what to expect! I have learned that on my first leg of the Storytime Yoga Children’s Mission here in Montserrat. The public library is very tiny and has some books, a decent kids section, and a large Bible section. Turns out my contact I had for the library had quit! [...]

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The Storytime Yoga Road School of Experiential Learning

August 8, 2010

After eight months of planning, the Storytime Yoga Road School of Experiential Learning has begun. It has several goals: 1)    That my children, ages 10 and 12, learn experientially while traveling to get a global education, learn foreign language, learn about local customs, food supply, geography and history as well as other aspects of the [...]

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Mythic Yoga: The Story in the Body

July 23, 2010

Yoga and story have the power to transform, and as parents, teachers and caregivers, our transformation in turn affects others around us, especially children. For four days, participants spent time in Boulder and Rollinsville, Colorado listening to the Story in the Body. Using ancient Hindu myth, we explored the somatic realms to listen deeply and [...]

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Puppets for Education, Yoga and Delight!

June 13, 2010

El Museo Argentina del Titere in San Telmo in Buenos Aires is a sweet little place. The Bohemian building and intimate theatre packs families into this simple venue. There is an incredible museum of antique puppets from around the world there, exemplifying the forms of shadow, marionette, stick and hand. My inner child delighted in [...]

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Steamed Artichoke Hearts and Raven

January 5, 2010

I find every day a little way to incorporate yoga in my family’s life. Although my children aren’t into doing asana with me anymore except for a few ones here and there at the spur of the moment, I do find ways to slip in yoga philosophy and ayurveda into their lives. I taught my [...]

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The Power of stories and a mythic life

September 14, 2009

Children’s yoga, ki

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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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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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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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The Death of Opal

June 6, 2009

Opal the hamster has died. It was my daughter’s miniature, Chinese hamster. This thing was cute. Little kid book cute. Tiny and adorable. My daughter loved that hamster. Cleaned its cage dutifully, played with it and begged for elaborate, plastic living quarters for her. Recently, she had escaped her cage somehow. My son discovered her [...]

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Ayurveda for Children with ADD

April 16, 2009

I sent my 8-year-old daughter to my ayurvedic physican yesterday. Instead of drugging her up, I decided to try aryuveda. She is vata pitta, and her vata way out of control, that quintessential ADD symptom. And it’s about proper nutrition that she’s not getting. She’s always been a minimal eater Feeding her brain will help [...]

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