Sydney Solis The Mythic Yoga Studio/Storytime Yoga

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Since Sydney Solis has been spreading the joy and wisdom of kids yoga and story with classes performances trainings and workshops internationally View a complete list of her past performances here From her childrens show on PBS to The National Association for the Education of Young Children to Kids Yoga Camps at Kripalu Sydney enchants audiences of all ages with Storytime Yoga&#; As a little girl growing up in Boulder Colorado Sydney frequently perused her father&#;s huge collection of books on yoga myths stories and religions of all cultures Her father was born in the Dutch East Indies now Indonesia and is a child survivor of the Ambarawa Japanese concentration camp on Java during World War II Her childhood was influenced by his story that included a testament to a death experience in the camp and his subsequent interest in Eastern religions and yoga At age she started meditating and joined Astara and later The Self-Realization Fellowship When Sydney entered the eighth grade her sister Nancy Narada became a Hare Krsna devotee Sydney learned the myths stories and philosophies of India She studied psychology theater and dance at the University of Colorado Boulder and did work study with the Nancy Spanier Dance Theatre She studied photography at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara California and earned a BA in Journalism and Spanish from Metropolitan State College of Denver where she was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper She worked in the United States Mexico and Ecuador as a reporter and award-winning photographer She was a religion reporter for the Bakersfield Californian and also worked at Digital Video Magazine in San Francisco the Boulder Daily Camera  and The News English language newspaper and Notimex Government News Agency in Mexico City She taught adult literacy and volunteered with the Kern County Health Department Sydney has worked as an English as a Second Language tutor in public elementary and high schools and worked in her childrens Montessori classrooms for seven years It was after settling down with married life and raising two children that she discovered her love of storytelling in She spent three years as a Spellbinder volunteering to tell stories to public school children After her husbands suicide in she became a professional storyteller and yoga teacher She studied storytelling with Laura Simms Rebecca Armstrong Susan Marie-Frontczak and Kate Lutz She began practicing hatha yoga in after a hit-and-run car injury Sydney has more than hours of training in the Anusara yoga tradition She completed a -hour Anusara training with her teacher Bhakti and Level I teacher training with Anusara founder John Friend She studied advanced yoga therapy with senior Anusara teachers Jeanie Manchester and Anthony Bogart Ashtanga yoga with Richard Freeman and Yoga Nidra with SreeDevi Bringi at Naropa University She also studied meditation at the Boulder Shambhala Center She is a also a level Reiki Practitioner trained by Unity Minister Olivia Christel Sydney currently studies with legendary yogi and Kripalu founder Amrit Desai and with the amazing Jenny Cooper and Emma Tranter at the Yoga Shed and Julie Deyo of Triplicity Wellness at home in delightful DeLand Florida  If she ever got around to turning in the paperwork she would have something like a Yoga Alliance -level standing or more but shes just not into that kind of busy-ness Shes rather be telling stories and teaching yoga to kids in the garden She proudly has been self-publishing since the fourth grade at Douglas Elementary School in Boulder Colorado and self-publishes her books through The Mythic Yoga Studio LLC in Boulder Colorado She is the author of numerous books and albums including: The storytelling CD The Golden Cucumber: Stories of Indonesia Talking Dragonfly Productions Chili Today Hot Tamale and other Tummy Tales Jems Press Storytime Yoga: Teaching Yoga to Children Through Story  - Nominated for the Anne Izard Storytellers Choice Award The Treasure in Your Heart: Yoga and Stories for Peaceful Children  Yoga Con Cuentos: Como Ense&#;ar yoga a los ni&#;os mediante el uso de Cuentos  The childrens yoga DVD The Peddlers Dream - Winner of the Parents Choice Foundation Recommended Award Sydney is a member of the National Storytelling Networks Healing Story Alliance and is an associate of the Joseph Campbell Foundation She was the Colorado Roundtables leader for three years and its Spanish-language forum moderator She also produced four World Peace Interfaith Storytelling Gatherings at the Boulder Public Library and organized bringing Gerald McDermott for a Myth in Education program at the library that included a myth in art award for youth Sydney also writes poetry and creates photographic art After living in Boulder Colorado for most of her life in she followed her bliss and lived abroad on a personal mythic journey with her two children for three years in Buenos Aires and St Croix US Virgin Islands She is now settled in DeLand Florida and spends summers in Boulder Colorado She is very glad that she followed her bliss because as in fairy tales she got what she wanted just not the way she expected it.