Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Mythic Yoga: The Story in The Body
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Resurrection Artist Opening Reception & Poetry Reading February 23, Tavares, Florida
A 44-piece collection of visual beauty! I will also be reading the poem, "Strangers," as part of the collection.
Exhibited until May 29, 2018
Stroll by to meet the artists, listen to live music, and enjoy light, tasty hors d'oeuvres.
Resurrection
Friday, February 23, 2018
5:30 p – 7:30 p
Tavares City Hall located at 201 E. Main Street
February 2018
Sydney Solis Artist Statement
All of the pieces in this show contain something that has been pulled from the trash. I have given them new life as works of art. Out of death comes life. A resurrection. For all my life I have collected ephemera, paper, the old or worn, thrown away holding history until images and textures could be salvaged and recast into something else as expressive art telling its own story.
The Rusty Warren album in “Sinsational” and frame was pulled from the trash back of Smitty’s Thrift store in DeLand, Florida, as were the frames for “Wonderful Florida” and “Voice of a Star.” They live on!
“Stetson Girls” is made from original antique silver gelatin prints from a Stetson University scrapbook that the West Volusia Historical Society was throwing away, but was passed on to a neighbor, who passed it on to me. An anonymous young woman’s college life story is immortalized.
“De la Longevite et de la Brievite de la vie” is made from a discarded book as well.
Dozens of antique cards that a beloved teacher named Miss Olive Gardener of DeLand had received were, too, saved from the trash by my neighbor. Love and happy feelings never die in “Miss Olive Gardener’s Cards.”
“Paper Doll VI” and “Paper Doll V” contain items my late mother bought at flea markets or pulled from the trash herself, and I gleaned from her packed home upon her passing away. There we find the source of all my irresistible artistic itches to create. Out of death comes life.
Sydney Solis
Orlando, Florida
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Mythic Yoga Journey™ to Japan: Haiku #3 Video Poem
Meditate upon the clear light of being shining through all of reality.
Imagine yourself as a Buddha and let the city wake you up! Subscribe!
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Nazis stole the Swastika: Now We're Taking it Back for Luck, Peace and Well-Being
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| Swastikas on lanterns at a Buddhist Shrine in the Dontonburi district, Osaka, Japan |
“The soul speaks in an image,” Aristotle said. The voiceless language of symbols speak to our psyches and awaken powers, like good luck, good health and well being.
That’s the meaning of the swastika, which for thousands of years before Nazis and Eurocentric World War II history stole the symbol from Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. Native American tribes, like the Navajo, used the swastika in healing rituals. In European history, the symbol was associated with Norse gods like Thor and Odin. The swastika is also the pattern made from the revolution of the stars of Ursa Major around Polaris.
In Japan the swastika is called the manji (卍) and it was on maps in Japan to denote Shinto and Buddhist shrines and temples. I remember seeing it on Google maps the first time I visited Japan in November, 2016, and marveled at the impression this symbol made on my psyche. And it had nothing to do with Nazis, but the power of activating the powerful seeds of healing and auspiciousness within me.
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| Swastika at a Shinto shrine near Nishikujo Station, Osaka, Japan |
Japan, however, decided to change the swastika to pagodas or torii gates in preparation for the for the 2019 Rugby World Cup and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The changes will not apply to Japanese-language maps, and there is no suggestion that the temples themselves should remove manji from their premises. But it just doesn’t have the same effect, and we are all losing something within ourselves as a result, such as access to our inner lives via the mythic dimension that our psyches (psyche means soul in Greek) need and crave in these troubled times.
Around Japan I have seen dozens of temples and shrines with the swastika. Nazi versions face right and usually sit in a diamond shape at a slant, while the manji version is a square. Japanese Buddhism has both a right-facing and left-facing manji. So think left swastika L for luck and love and R for Reich on its side for Nazi differentiation.
But the Nazi symbolism of the West has usurped the power of the symbol in the East in the last 70 plus years, especially in the United States, making this symbol inaccessible to many. It’s time to take it back and educate people about this symbol’s origins and true meaning, because humanity depends on it. As human beings, our psyches need something beyond just shopping and working. It needs ritual, myth and participation in the cosmos, otherwise, as Mythologist Joseph Campbell says, society disintegrates. And it is! Just read the headlines!
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| Swastika on a chozubachi, water-filled basin, used for purification at a Shinto Shrine near Nishikujo Station, Osaka, Japan. |
“Mircea Eliade was motivated at all times by a deep concern for the future of Western civilization, which he saw as threatened by possible extinction,” writes Robert Temple.
“He believed it essential that we recognize and acknowledge the archaic and the Eastern contributions to man's spiritual history while there is still time to do so with good grace. Otherwise, by maintaining an attitude of contempt or superiority towards the rest of the world — past and present — we would bring disaster on ourselves and the world as a whole.”
So contemplate the swastika. Notice the tension of opposites from the Nazi symbolism that has embedded itself today and with the rise of hatred and chaos in the United States and Charlottesville, Virginia as the West declines and the East rises with its ancient connotations of health, well-being and peace in the East. See where those two meet. One thing passes away, the other arises. What has been suppressed, comes into consciousness once again.
Experience the symbol in your body, your art, your meditation, your dreams and see what happens.
And may peace, luck and good health be with you!
More pictures of Swastikas in Japan on my blog, Sydney in Osaka! Subscribe!
More pictures of Swastikas in Japan on my blog, Sydney in Osaka! Subscribe!
Sunday, July 9, 2017
Mythic Yoga 4-Week Online Class Starts July 16/ 17
This has been my experience, as I remarkably find myself living in Osaka, Japan with my new husband. It's a rebirth for sure, as my 84-year-old father died June 24, the day I moved to Japan. I went back a week later for bereavement. To clean out the old and rebirth the new.
My father, my past life in Colorado and childhood home in Boulder, Colorado - so much was left behind, but all was brought with me too. I pulled the choice memories and good from the ashes of the past.
I have been asked to put on an online Mythic Yoga training. Join me next week Starting Monday July 17 for 4-weeks exploring your personal mythology via yoga philosophy, mythology, art, writing, yoga asana and more.
Know Thy Self! Use dreams, myth, the body and personal storytelling for self-discovery and transformation!
Each class features movement, yoga, contemplation and a different ancient Hindu and myth that leads you through life's stages Bring a dream you’ve had and would like to work with, a notebook, your body and your listening ears to journey within and discover your personal myth. Includes all materials.
Five Sunday/Mondays July 16/17-August 13/14. Classes run one hour and start Sunday, July 16 7:30 pm. Eastern Standard Time. Starts Monday July 17 at 8:30 a.m. Japan Standard Time and 5:00 a.m. India Standard Time.
Register by purchasing the downloadable Mythic Yoga materials online. Cost is $199. Enroll by July 13 and receive 25 percent discount with this code MythicYoga at checkout.
Saturday, May 27, 2017
Mythic Yoga: The Story in the Body - Personal Mythology & Transformation via Body and Story
Pictures are images that bubble up from the soul. Putting together images for this movie guides you to begin to listen to the story in the body as you take a Mythic Yoga Journey™ into your own story. Use svadyaya, self-reflection, to contemplate the images while you practice yoga. The classic method of Mythic Yoga by Sydney Solis. Subscribe!
Friday, May 26, 2017
The Mythic Yoga Studio Orlando House Perfect for Your Yoga Story Writing and Travel Retreat!
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| Is it a magical cottage in the woods? No! It's the Mythic Yoga Studio Orlando location! Stay here 2BR and 2BA house smack in the middle of charming and walkable Thornton Park, downtown Orlando, Florida and get inspired to write, make art, practice yoga, meditate, travel on your Mythic Yoga Journey™ or just down to Universal Studios! |
That's because you surrendered and finally got clear of that old story that was churning around in the back of your head like a Greek chorus, shouting, LOOK! LISTEN! What are you creating?
You turned around, got a good look at that story and learned to take a risk, follow your bliss, re-story it and get your old mind and body out of the way! Rebirth!
That's what happened to me on my long 14-year Mythic Yoga Journey,™ a journey of mythic proportions that keeps getting more amazing by the day.
Yoga and stories are powerful tools to transform your life! Suffering, thank you! What great gifts as a result! Especially to have faith and take time off to heal! I never guessed I'd be moving to Osaka! So you can't judge what happens to you! And that makes living in these uncertain times a lot easier!
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| Practice yoga among art and books! Discover your own Story in the Body! |
Remember, the Mythic Yoga Studio IS wherever YOU are! Be it Orlando, Boulder, or Osaka, myth and yoga are always there to wake you up to the NOW!
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| This box I use for storing yoga mats has a story to tell! It was used by the famous Life Magazine Photographer Fritz Henle to send back photographs of Pablo Casals he took while in Spain. His daughter Tina Henle is one of my best friends from my Mythic Yoga Journey™ time on St. Croix in the USVI and she gave this to me. |
I will be traveling back and forth since my soon to be 17-year-old daughter doesn't want to go.
But the house serves as my office for writing and upcoming trainings, as well as a yoga studio/gallery, featuring my collage artwork of my Personal Mythology series that I hope will inspire you in your Mythic Yoga Journey™ and creative work or travels.
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| Artwork for sale from the Personal Mythology series by Sydney Solis at the Mythic Yoga Studio Orlando house and rental property. |
Yoga and story and art heal! I'm living proof! This place is to be a hub of international yoga and mythology exchange - Orlando to Osaka for yoga and Buddhist meditation, not to mention the amazing mindful culture of Japan you will fall in love with!
And what a story I have connected with that! And of course I will always drop into my hometown of Boulder, Colorado and visit my 84-year-old papa and gazillion family and friends.
You must visit the Dove Inn Bed and Breakfast in Golden, Colorado that one of my best-friends Elizabeth runs. Trainings have been held there in the past and more will be held there too! So get on the email list now!
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| Eclectic, artistic, funky charm describes this house owned by two artists! Get inspired by hanging out here! |
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| Built in 1938, the house was in the Orlando Historic Homes calendar! |
Book a private yoga session with our manager, Reider, who also teaches at Orlando Power Yoga Orlando.
If you are writer, poet or artist, get inspired by my plethora of books on psychology, yoga, mythology, folklore, fairytales, poetry, fiction and more! Trainings and more will be coming soon!
And if you are a healthy food and gardener freak like Florida Master Gardener that I; my husband, Steve, and Reider are; you will get excited about the coming hydroponic system and all the juicing, vegan and vegetarian cookbooks we have!
So Know Thy Self! It's a mythic return! I followed my bliss and my mind is literally blown! Join us! Contact us today for rates, dates and more information!
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Mythic Yoga - Two Birds - A Story from the Rig Veda by Sydney Solis
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| Two birds at Kasuga-taisha Shinto Shrine, Nara, Japan |
This story from the Rig Veda, from my E-book Mythic Yoga: Vishnu's Dream - Ancient Hindu Myth and Personal Story.
Telling stories is an art. Let the story and images wash over you as you practice yoga and begin your own Mythic Yoga Journey™ and listen to the Story in the Body.
OM SHANTI
Sunday, April 2, 2017
Your Mythic Yoga Journey™ - Stories of Faith, Healing and Transformation
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| Sydney Solis among the plum blossoms at Osaka Castle Park, Osaka, Japan |
The Sufi story of Fatima the Spinner and the Tent tells the story of a young woman who three times is frustrated by life, but in the end she sees that everything brings her to the happiness she has found.
In the Chinese story I call Maybe, Maybe Not, a farmer is distraught over problems that arise, such a his son breaking his leg. But because the son broke his leg, an invading army does not impress him into their army and he is spared.
A story in the Song of Solomon, a King is given a ring with the inscription This Too Shall Pass, to aid him in his suffering over material conditions that are either good or bad in his life.
In the end, all of these stories are stories I have collected for my storytelling performances of Mythic Yoga called Stories of Faith Healing and Transformation. They are about material conditions, whether good or bad, and how they are transient. This has been the story of my life, and I call it Mythic Yoga. They are healing stories and yoga. We use myths, stories and symbols to guide us in uniting us with our true self. It is our Mythic Yoga Journey™ to continue on the path, despite all that appears as obstacles.
For you cannot judge what happens to you. All is as it should be, or it's how things hang together. The good or the bad is just a value judgment. Things just ARE. It is only our lens of mind that brings judgment and suffering. We try to cast out demons, but demons, as Mythologist Joseph Campbell says, are just doing their part in duality. We need story, and somebody has to play each part!
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| Cherry blossoms, Sakura, at the Himuro Jinja Shrine, Nara, Japan Cherry blossoms symbolize the fleeting of life. Cherish each moment! |
My life has been that way. So many traumas - childhood trauma in my childhood home of Boulder, Colorado, the trauma of my husband's suicide, a hasty second marriage three years after that ended in divorce and losing all my money, dealing with foreclosure, intense stress, losing my youngest sister to suicide, being abandoned on a Caribbean island, traveling, being brutalized by police in Florida.
But all along I had an inner guide - yoga and meditation, and of course stories and dreams. It was my Mythic Yoga Journey, that entailed me leaving Boulder in 2010 and living in Argentina, St. Croix in the US. Virgin Islands and arriving back on the mainland in Florida.
It has brought me incredible faith, healing and transformation. And now after all that, I find myself in the incredible moment of my life with all I could possibly ever imagine. At 50, I am married to my soul mate. We are perfect match for each other in every way. And remarkably, as life has it, I find myself moving to Japan!
I hope you follow your bliss. It takes risk. I did, and I'm happy to be your guide. Since 2003 I have been writing and conducting Mythic Yoga and Storytime Yoga® workshops online and more. I had my two children to raise on my own, and I really valued the home arts and motherhood as they needed me and the business world is way too stressful to do both well. I sacrificed with bliss for them, and now, as fate has it, I am back on my Mythic Yoga Journey™ to Japan.
For the calm abiding to see clearly is with me from meditation and yoga. I have listened to my story in the body, reclaimed my intuitive, sensing and feeling self by occupying the body and feeling safe in the moment. I have peeled away the curtains of the theatre of my mind, and gained enormous joy and peace in the process. And all my dreams have come true.
That's the goal of yoga - the sage, unaffected by loss or gain. I'm not perfect, but everything is practice. I know more lay ahead. But I am ever rooted in the transcendent as I participate in duality.
You, too, can take a personal Mythic Yoga Journey™. Read my ebook, Mythic Yoga: Ancient Hindu Myth and Personal Story, which I first performed at the Winter Festival of Stories at the Boulder Public Library in 2005. Nobody could understand Mythic Yoga back then. They looked at me and said, "Mythic?" I know now, all has a purpose! All is as it should be!!
Join me! Subscribe to my YouTube Channel for my Mythic Yoga Journey™ to Japan videos of haiku poetry and more. Follow me on Instagram for my photography and haiku and tankas and more! Follow my blog on my new website, an umbrella for Mythic Yoga and Storytime Yoga, my poetry and art, SydneySolis.com.
We found an amazing apartment in Osaka, and once I get settled I will return to teaching. It's a journey! Join me! Have faith! Healing and transformation await!
OM SHANTI
Osaka, Japan
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Poetry in Motion - Yoga, Myth and the Body
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Wisdom, digital photograph of original silver gelatin print
photo collage by Sydney Solis. Part of the Personal
Mythology Series.
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Our bodies are poetry in motion. Poet Sandra Cisneros writes that a dream is a poem of the body. Mythologist Joseph Campbell says that the organs of the body are what emit energies in conflict with each other as images arise to the surface in our dreams and visions.
What happens when we listen deeply to what songs, sounds, images and invisible words our body is saying to us?
That's part of the Mythic Yoga journey undertaken at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver this January 14, 2017 as part of a new beginning series that I will be teaching there. I'm excited to bring yoga and movement to literature workshops and share the intuitive, sensing and feeling functions that have been overlooked in favor of the intellect - true yoga.
Using spoken word, yoga, dance and other movement, we will explore embodied storytelling in a disembodied age of internet, social media and virtual reality to bring us down to earth, reality and listen deeply enough to tell our Myth Poem of the Body.
OM SHANTI
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Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Mythic Imagery and Embodied Storytelling for Psycho-Spiritual Development
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| Gustav Klimt The Tree of Life 1905 |
It's part of my personal Mythic Yoga repertoire of stories that have a significant spiritual value for me personally as well as collectively that have themes of reconciliation and renewal.
The imagery in this story pertains to many psycho-spiritual elements contained in yoga and yoga philosophy. When we listen to this story, we connect via the metaphors and archetypical images that re-link us to ourselves via the mythic dimension of our beings, largely forgotten in favor of the intellect.
Listening and creating these images internally within with our imagination activates the neglected feeling and intuitive functions of our psyche that is found and felt in the body. Healing and answers are thus provided to our questions and ailments. "...myths are also profound dramatic descriptions of our interior emotional and spiritual experience as human beings, says Jeremy Taylor, and these myths also show up in our sleeping and waking dream life.
We become the characters, images and elements of the story, as we progress in the narrative structure and through the ritual of listening have a conscious participation in the story. We live the myth. We are the foolish king, who sends his young queen away. We are the queen abandoned and sent to the forest to live with an old man. We are the old man, those feminine qualities in masculine psychology that are expelled from our patriarchal culture. We are the tree of gold, which is constantly flowing liquid gold but always holding its shape of a tree.
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| The Cottonwood trees of my youth growing up in Boulder, County Colorado have strong meaning for me. Native Americans saw the tree as sacred and was at the heart of the Sun Dance Ritual |
When we act the story out with out body or take a position of a tree, I can feel immediately the Shakti, the kundalini, the chakras, the tree of life. I am at the center point, the axis mundi. I am the whole world. Tat Tvam Asi. Thou Art That. I am at one with the cosmos, the divine. My body is the container, just as the tree is, for cosmic intelligence and consciousness. The body's intelligence knows the way, we just have to realize it by hearing the stories and participating in the myth via the ritual of yoga.
For that is the purpose of myth, to help us live in accord with nature. We become Solis, the Latin word for sun. I am the sun. That is my personal mythology. And I am always amazed at the images and opportunities that present themselves in my life all because I dared to take a risk and follow my bliss. Dared to extract myself of the commodified trap American yoga has become.
I feel the image resonate within me and it grounds me when I think of it or move with it. The Cosmic Tree is a powerful archetype of cosmic renovation. The Asvattha is the chief of trees and typifies that tree of life which is rooted in God. Great reminders during our secular life to handle all that arises and be rooted in myth and yoga in a world flattened out with just economic and political concerns rather than ecstasy and spirit.
Yama while instructing Naciketa describes the eternal Asvattha tree with its root upwards and branches downwards, which is the pure immortal Brahman, in which all these world are situated, and beyond which there is nothing else (Katha Upanishad Verse II.vi.1). But Krishna tells us that the Asvattha tree having neither end nor beginning nor stationariness whatsoever has its roots upwards and branches downwards whose branches are nourished by the Gunas and whose infinite roots spread in the form of action in the human world which, though strong, are to be cut off by the forceful weapon of detachment to seek the celestial abode from which there is no return (Bhagavad Gita Chapter XV Verses 1-4).
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| This tree my father bought at an end of season sale at K-Mart in Boulder in 1981 for .25. It now grows and has an uncanny look of a woman! Folklore says that when you cut down a tree, you cut down a woman. |
Forget expensive trainings and workshops by flying all over the world. America, always trying to make a buck. Simply sit down and mediate every day and get to know thy self! For yogic wisdom for thousand of years has been passed down in such a manner, for the transmission is a psycho-spiritual knowing via the energy of the image that guides us to knowledge and liberation. It's perfect for modern times. Just to re-acquaint yourself with this silent aspect of your being.
For this is our yoga. Mythic Yoga, using images and symbols to find union. "To transcend profane time and re-enter into mythical Great Time is equivalent to a Revelation of Ultimate Reality. Reality that is strictly metaphysical and can be approached in no other way than through myths and symbols," Mircea Eliade says in his book Images and Symbols studies in religious symbolism.
Join me May 14 at Yoga Circle and Dance in Ormond Beach for a Mythic Yoga Workshop to discover your personal mythology. Or join me online starting September 12 for the Mythic Yoga Online Training and discover your myth through dreams and journaling, yoga and the global community. Amazingly we start dreaming together, experiencing the synchronicity that arises when we connect to our depths and share our hearts. We are all one!
OM SHANTI
Friday, April 15, 2016
Joseph Campbell Foundation Roundtable Meetings in DeLand, Florida Third Monday of Each Month
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| Durga and Kali have been guiding me with myth for decades, helping me cut through tragedy, trauma and ego and leading me to divine truth Live your Myth! It's magic! |
I decided that needed to take time off for my kids and personal mythic journey, so I took a risk and followed my bliss. I left Colorado, my home state of 38 years, in 2010 to travel and live abroad with my kids, homeschooling them with yoga and story. I landed in DeLand, Florida and the wonderful storytellers there were excited to hear about myth and Joseph Campbell, which is really all yoga!
I pointed them in the direction to start a Mythological Roundtable here. We have been meeting steadily at the home of a psychotherapist and includes my neighbors, Tony Foresta and Kaye Armstrong, who were the audio and video team that worked on Bill Moyer's PBS Series with Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth
The next meeting is this Monday April 18 at 7 pm in DeLand, Florida. Contact Bill at wbrennan8(at)cfl.rr.com.
As my kids are now older teens and the Storytime Yoga for Kids work coming to its fullness and all my creative projects completed, the Mythic Yoga realm I put off (took town my website in 2006, will be back soon!) just bubbles up even more powerful, as the body, yoga and stories link me more and more powerful to the inner world and the divine truth within everything connected.
Join us! Start a Joseph Campbell Foundation Roundtable in your area! Follow your myth! Connect with others, especially youth, and let's bring myth, peace and wellbeing back to the world via body and word! I will be presenting more Mythic Yoga programs in the future. Stay tuned! In the meantime, Read my E-book Mythic Yoga: Vishnu's Dream: Ancient Hindu Myth and Personal Story to get inspired by the myths and activate within you realization of your life's unique personal story and destiny.
Join me at Yoga Circle and Dance in Ormond Beach, Florida on May 14 for Mythic Yoga Workshop!
OM SHANTI
Friday, April 8, 2016
Mythic Yoga Workshop May 14 at Circle Yoga and Dance, Ormond Beach, FL
THE MYTHIC YOGA STUDIO PRESENTS
Sydney Solis, RYT
Saturday May 14, 2016
1-3 pm $25
Circle Yoga and Dance
605 ½ S. Yonge St.
Ormond Beach, FL
- Discover the power of ancient myth and yoga philosophy for modern times.
- Plumb the depths of your being to develop your intuitive and feeling functions by listening to the body’s silent voice as you create a personal mythology for physical and mental wellness, and healing.
- Use the tools of world mythology, the chakras, imagery and the oral tradition to gain insight to your life and inspiration for storytelling and creative writing for self-discovery, artistic expression and posterity.
- Gentle yoga, dance, movement, yoga nidra and meditation round out the experience.
- Bring paper, a pen and a dream. Wear comfortable clothing. No yoga experience required.
Register today at YogaCircleandDance@gmail.com
Visit www.MythicYoga.com for more information
Sydney Solis, RYT, is the Queen of Bohemia. Since 2003 she has been enchanting, educating and entertaining people of every age all over the world with her pioneering Storytime Yoga® and Mythic Yoga performances, methods and trainings. An associate of the Joseph Campbell Foundation, she enjoys sharing the ancient Power of Myth to modern audiences.Read Sydney Solis's personal mythology developed with yoga and ancient Hindu myth in Mythic Yoga: Vishnu's Dream: Ancient Hindu Myth and Personal Story.
Or join me online starting September 12 for the Mythic Yoga Online Training and discover your myth through dreams and journaling, yoga and the global community. Amazingly we start dreaming together, experiencing the synchronicity that arises when we connect to our depths and share our hearts. We are all one!
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Know Thy Self: Mythic Yoga Online Classes Start Sept. 12. Early-Bird Registration and Save
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| A mythic image has one foot in reality and one foot in eternity, says Mythologist Joseph Campbell. |
Working with myths and the body stops the rational, intellectual mind and kicks in the lost connection we have to the other parts of our psyches, such as the intuitive and feeling sides. Just as in the Grail Myth the King was wounded in the thigh, the feeling function, we must restore this connection to ourselves to provide wholeness not only for ourselves, but the entire world. Because the work we do in the silent depths of our meditation, yoga asana and Mythic Yoga practice is unfathonable in influence. For it is the depths were we meet all in undifferentiated consciousness.
Mythic Yoga classes start again this fall Mondays 8 pm EST. Started in 2006, The Storytime Yoga and Mythic Yoga online classes were the first yoga classes offered online. I took my mythic journey with my kids and lived my myth, and now I am back for the mythic return to share the gifts I have acquired from my journey.
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| Mythic Yoga is deep work that goes beyond yoga asana and connects to your dreams, personal myth, imagery, and art From the Personal Mythology Series of photo and mixed-media collage by Sydney Solis |
"Life is pain; life is suffering; and life is horror -- but by god, you are alive," Campbell says.
Dreams, stories, myths and putting our bodies and selves into the center of the universe and aligning it with the cosmos takes us on a journey into the ineffable and toward liberation. It's raja yoga, direct.
The physical asanas are only one step, but the psycho-social and spiritual aspects of Mythic Yoga are just being known as the images from our personal mythology arise and point us into the direction of liberation and ecstatic union with the divine.
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| Listen deeply to the body and discover your personal mythology! It won't be from the head! |
• Four weeks of original Mythic Yoga online course work, group interaction in a forum to post your questions and comments, dream work, guided home work and exercises, plus a live class every week for feedback and coaching that will be recorded if you can't make it.
• I will be sharing my personal mythic journey, how I started Mythic Yoga and Storytime Yoga for Kids in Boulder, Colorado in 2003, went on a personal mythic journey in 2010 abroad with my kids after my husband's death, and losing everything three more times after that...... Loss is continual.... but what is it that lasts within? It's the Little Piece of Paradise I say. It's always with you. Use personal mythology and yoga to find it! You don't survive, you thrive, prevail, triumph!
• Contact us today to register! Price is $250 and SAVE $50 if you register by May 15!
• Includes all coursework, online platforms as well as the e-book Mythic Yoga: Ancient Hindu Myth and Personal Myth by Sydney Solis and her childhood memoir of war Outside the Concentration Camp, all to get you inspired to share your story of healing with yoga and story.
• All you need is high-speed internet access and a webcam!
• Check out all the fun Mythic Yoga The Story in the Body participants had on our 5-day Retreats held in Boulder, Colorado 2008-2010.
The original Mythic Yoga! Live your myth, don't just talk about it! Find the courage to go deep within. OM SHANTI
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| Align with your Divine. Follow your dream images and they will awaken you in all of your life and mythology. |
Suggested Reading
The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell) by Joseph Campbell
The Heroine's Journey by Maureen Murdock (I met her at the Mythic Journey's Conference in Atlanta in 2004)
The Heroine's Journey Workbook by Maureen Murdock
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