The Mythic Yoga Studio Orlando House Perfect for Your Yoga Story Writing and Travel Retreat!

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!

When you follow your bliss, watch out! Amazing things will materialize in your life! Stuff you never dreamed of could happen!

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!

Practice yoga among art and books! Discover your own Story in the Body!

My new husband was transferred to Osaka for work, and so we have been fixing up his sweet downtown Orlando bungalow and turning it into the Mythic Yoga Studio Orlando location!

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!

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. 

Orlando will be my filming location for YouTube videos as will be our Osaka apartment that magically appeared! Amazing story about that one!

 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.

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! 

Eclectic, artistic, funky charm describes this house owned by two artists! Get inspired by hanging out here!

I have always loved travel, and was compelled to go abroad in 2010 by some unknown mysterious force within me that started this all! Must be those Bohemian ancestors! Not to mention searching for a better life abroad for me and my kids!

Built in 1938, the house was in the Orlando Historic Homes calendar!

So come on and do some Mythic Yoga!  If you are interested in renting this cute 2BR and 2BA house smack in the middle of charming and walkable Thornton Park, downtown Orlando, Florida, contact me! It's perfect as a writer's or yoga enthusiast's retreat, visiting Orlando and it's amazing natural beauty and attractions! Walk out your door and take a bus to Universal Studios!

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!

Mythic Yoga: The Personal Mythology Series at Studio Solis

Mythic Yoga: The Personal Mythology Series
By Sydney Solis at Studio Solis, DeLand, Florida
Copyright 1988 All Rights Reserved

Mythic Yoga cultivates the unknown within oneself to be known. From darkness to light, from untruth to truth. Art, poetry and other expressive creative efforts dig deep into the unconscious and bring forth self-knowledge.

The body holds a lot of this knowledge, so part of Mythic Yoga practice is to express the myths and the symbology that resonate in the body after yoga, dance or other contemplative movement into a physical container, such as art or poetry, to be expressed as personal mythology. Know Thy Self, The Oracle of Delphi implored. So we do.

For decades I have been doing the Mythic Yoga Personal Mythology Series of art and yoga. I will be having an art opening and poetry reading at Studio Solis in DeLand, Florida this fall. If you can't join us live, look for it on The Mythic Yoga Studio on Powhow.



Get inspired to write the Myth Poem of the Body with Mythic Yoga: Story Poetica
And check out some more Mythic Yoga Personal Mythology Series art right here at Studio Solis

I'm so very grateful to get to live the life I have always dreamed.  To live as an artist, mother, teacher. Life is so very beautiful. Thanks to the Great Mother. I was able to follow my bliss.

OM SHANTI

Sydney Solis

Mythic Yoga: Dreamwork - Telling the Dream Story of the Body

Mythic Yoga: Dream Work 

Dream work is one of the most powerful yogas. Self-knowledge is revealed when we listen to our dreams, connect with the symbols that bubble up out of the depths and listen to the stories they are revealing.

I have been involved with dream work my whole life, and taught it as part of the Mythic Yoga and Storytime Yoga® Kids Yoga Teacher Training, as teachers must know their own story first and experience transformation before teaching kids. And when we merge the body with the image, profound insight, awareness and healing arise. Just as Vishnu dreams the world into creation, we too awaken every morning and open our eyes and bloom the world into creation. We enter the field of time and space, dreamed by a single dreamer in which we all dream too! Mythic Yoga: Dreamwork - Telling the Dream Story of the Body online classes start Wednesdays August 21 at 8 pm EST on Powhow.com.

We use the body as a vehicle to work with the dreams, exploring the meaning and messages through movement, yoga, meditation, myths and storytelling. JOIN US! Register at the Mythic Yoga Studio on PowHow.com! 

Mythic Yoga: The Story in the Body - Body Memoirs online class also starts August 24!

Here are some of my favorite books on Dream Work

• Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth by Robert A. Johnson
• The Wisdom of Your Dreams: Using Dreams to Tap into Your Unconscious and Transform Your Life by Jeremy Taylor

• An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Traditional Symbols by J.C. Cooper - I don't believe in Dream books, as dream symbols are personal. Yet this book offers a glimpse into universal symbols and is fascinating reading.

Join the League of Yogic Storytellers and Gain Access to these Articles on Mythic Yoga Dream Work by Sydney Solis

• Mythic Yoga: Working with Your Dreams – The Beginnings of Personal Myth

• Mythic Yoga: Working with Your Dreams Video

Mythic Yoga: Story in the Body Class 1: BODY MEMOIRS Stories of the Feet

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" The real preparation for education is the study of one's self. The training of the teacher is something far more than the learning of ideas. It includes the training of character; it is a preparation of the spirit. " - Maria Montessori

Resting on the 100-headed snake Ananda Sesha, Vishnu grows a lotus from his navel. Lakshmi rubs his feet, activating his conscious power with her Shakti.  This is an image that roots us within to our own eternal depths and divine nature. It's an inner prima materi that anchors us to the divine through the myth intuitively. In Mythic Yoga practice, the image evokes something within us to examine our sense of connection to our bodies and lower chakras.

Our feet root our bodies to the energy of the earth.  Through the padha bandha in the foot and the muladhara banda at the base of the pelvis we energetically connect our bodies to the earth. Movement, dance and yoga asana, such as tadasana, with the feet connects us to this greater image of the earth and its powers and our Selves. What’s in the way? High heels for one thing ladies! But more so, memories, dreams reflections! The ones we hold on to at least!

The first class of Mythic Yoga: The Story in the Body series started Saturday and we worked with the image of Vishnu and his dream. The 4-week online class features the myths and personal stories in my book Mythic Yoga: Vishnu's Dream - Ancient Hindu Myth and Personal Story. Reflecting on the spoken myth Vishnu’s Dream from the Vishnu Purana, students are inspired to find their own stories via the body and myth. We examined images from our dream life at night and during the day, as well as the dream images from the myth. After asana, a student shared a particularly powerful story from her memory about her foot.

I practice alongside my students, so in my personal Mythic Yoga practice, I have worked with my feet before. The Body Memoir of my Feet video, recalls early trauma to the foot area. Does that memory have any unknown influence in my life? Can I tell something about it and offer it up as art to express myself and shift the relationship and energetics about what happened to me? For our bodies have stories to tell! How do we connect to the earth? Do we or do we not have a feeling of safety? What is the body say? What needs to be expressed? That is the student's challenge.

Additionally we work with dreams and the body.  In my personal practice, I have been having dreams of switching seats with others lately. In one dream, I am on an airplane and let the “retarded” child move to the window seat on the left so that it can be “better connected.”

The dream image reminds me of early woundings in my foot and confidence from recognizing that I had learning disabilities as a child.  I didn’t speak until I was 4 years old, my mother said. My Oma, Dutch grandmother, got me talking. I had severe leg pains growing up. I could never understand math, and remember a particularly humiliating experience in the first grade over math. I had whole gaps in my learning, and remember the first grade class going off somewhere else while I was left behind with the kids with coke-bottle glasses and open mouths.

 I found I excelled at English, however. I was reading Greek myths and books at a 7^th grade level by second grade growing up in Boulder, Colorado. Additionally I was a year or more younger than everybody else in class because my mother “didn’t know what to do with me” so fudged my birth certificate with white out and a copy machine to get me admitted to school early. That “strong suit” of reading made its way onto my Persona, my mask of the true Self.

I act out with movement my dream of the retarded child. I love my retarded self. And there is no retarded self. Never was. It’s just who I am. Just as my daughter, who has struggled with reading and learning disabilities her whole life, now in sixth grade reads at a 9th grade and higher level. She just did things differently. As do I! My shadow can come out now! I love Truman Capote’s quote. “I am an alcoholic. I am a drug addict. I am a homosexual. I am a genius.”

Looking at my "retarded" child connects me to all of my self. It is part of my shadow. So may we all love our shadows, find out who they are, offer them a cup of tea, make friends with them, tell stories about them and offer them up as art in honor of life. May we befriend and move with all parts of ourselves to get connected in a better seat of life! Tell Your Story in the Body!

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Join the Mythic Yoga: The Story in the Body Online class with Sydney Solis at the Mythic Yoga Studio on PowHow.com.

SUGGESTED READING
Jung and Yoga: The Psyche-Body Connection by Judith Harris 
The Inner Journey: Views from the Hindu Tradition, Edited by Margaret H. Case PARABOLA anthology Series

 Know Thy Self with Mythic Yoga then teach yoga and tell stories to little kids with Storytime Yoga!