Sundog Stories

94 Wild Geese - Yoga Nidra

Wild Geese- A Short Yoga Nidra I heard the geese flying over our cottage this early morning and thought I'd send out a short Yoga Nidra, including Mary Oliver's lovely poem Wild Geese. To set the mood, you'll hear chickadees, a squirrel or two, blue jays and the rustling of wind in the high trees.

93 Shoji - A Story

Shoji screens  are made of translucent Japanese paper panels that lightly separate spaces. The screens form a thin divide between the outside and the inside world, yet intimately connect the spaces by transmitting light and shadow, sound and air. And, just as the glow of a candle, , and the smell of the rain is felt through the translucent Shoji screen,  so death flickers its shadowed light onto life.  This story is about how magicians loosen our grip on how we perceive the world, and about endings.

92 Buen Camino: One beginner's guide to the Camino de Santiago - A Story

One afternoon my husband and I were greeted by a robed, toothless, wild haired monk under the tall arches of a crumbling monastery. He hugged us, again and again, would not let go, pointed at my eyes, then his, then the sky: azul, azul. Blue, blue. Buen Camino is about walking the long road to Santiago.

91 Temagami Time - A Story

"Trees warp time, or rather create a variety of times: here dense and abrupt, there calm and sinuous ." John Fowles Temagami Time is about our relationship with time.

90 Wave - Yoga Nidra

This Yoga Nidra has you observe the rising and falling of awareness.