Shirt Simms

Healing Grief with history and yoga

I've been fascinated by fairy tales lately. There childhood been since the last time deepened his fantastic images, symbols and magical journeys. I've rediscovered all over again for his incredible power healing.

Recently I worked on the Grimm fairy tale The 12 Swans, that name based on various sources researched. I worked on this story this August with the storyteller Laura Simms at its annual residency in Philo, California.

I was attracted to tell this story of a young man who is responsible for the fact that their 12 children who die because of his birth, and must have your 12 brothers who have been enchanted and turned swans. Their task is difficult, to spin, weave and sew 12 shirts for her brothers to break the spell, but to add to the difficulty, you should not talk or laugh during 6 years and he had to do all of nettles. A king falls in love with her, but the deception of the queen mother, gets the girl accused of witchcraft and dragged to the stake to be burned. End the shirt just in time, without a past and restore manga brothers, breaks the spell and, finally, may speak and defend himself.

We are drawn to stories like fairy tales of the symbols and images present and how they point to our personal experience on a deep level. Mythologist Joseph Campbell said the goal the symbol is the witness of the transcendent experience in itself. Physical symbol points own past and to the transcendent. One can then take yoga, or union with the divine within.

When offered a story to tell, Laura said the listener to create their own meaning of the symbols alone, more than if this story "fits". As a narrator of my project work is not my personal interpretation of a story, but allow the listener to participate in their own experience history and its images and make sex with her.

Aristotle said that the soul speaks in an image. Our task is to listen deeply the inner landscape the body, feel it, experience it, find the symbols and stories and express it in order to achieve a deep awareness of ourselves, to undo the blocks and find the resistance and find our ultimate freedom, Union of yoga with me, who's always there, impeccable. It is through yoga, chitti vritti narodaha by the cessation of fluctuations of the mind that Patanjali says in the sutras 1.2, we can see clearly beyond the mind and perceive the soul. Only after the elimination This film from the mind of distractions off the shower door with power yoga trawling can identify with the soul instead of the mind and get to heaven on earth.

A member of the Shambhala community, Simms we meet twice a day in meditation. The practice forced me to watch my mind and as you said, be curious about what and why I'm thinking. What is the thought / story going on here? Why retell always this thought / story? And then you to this. It forced me to be clear about what was really happening in front of me and of what is really happening in the fairy tale.

Moreover, Simms, gave us little, "email" tasks to do. To me, she recognized through the ear to tell my own story I had aspects of myself that I had repressed for years. There was something missing that is needed to be restored and sad. In fact, had much to regret – the sudden my husband died 2 ½ years ago, a traumatic childhood and other pains and losses. I made a list of 12 things that I was lost and needed to restore. I spent week to collect things from the forest floor and meandering along the Navarro River in search of lost aspects of myself. Stories emerged that deep search that related to the history and my attraction for him. How I did not speak until I was 4, how I restrained myself creative, expressive back to perform the duty of corporate wife courteous and respectful. Those stories became evident in my sitting and walking meditation.

Simms I tell the story as if I was the mother of Queen of mourning in the history of the 12 brothers were to die. Telling my story of experiences and express my pain through fairy tales helped me express my pain and clear. There was a recognition and nomenclature. That clarity of mind that makes us free, to distinguish what is real and what is a delusion of the mind. Delusions, like every time were the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. A false perception and belief can lead to unnecessary suffering and struggle. Our mind is the greatest weapon of destruction mass. To give into fear, guilt, and to believe in stories of others imposed on us. But if we stop to look at history in mind, we can be clear, the name and cure it.

The definitive cure of the pardon came through. I forgave myself for terrible mistakes in handling the estate of my husband or decisions I took in my life, with consequences hard. It was a recovery of my authentic self healing, culminating in the forgiveness of myself repressing my true I. I mourned the loss. Peace that I did the best I could. I moved. I have a story to tell.

Hebrew tradition says that God made man because he like stories. It is as if that is what our ego is all a story, offered by God. So the practice of yoga. I tell stories. I share with my family and friends. And life is beautiful.

WORK HISTORY:

The twelve swans

Working with this fairy tale as you would a dream. Make a list of images and symbols that impressed you in history. Working with the girl of 12 siblings, the swan, and so on. What do they mean to you? What associations can do with them? Ask questions like, what in my life now or in the past is similar to the experience of heroin? What misfortune has happened to me? What difficult task I had to make? How I'm like the queen mother, making false accusations, internally and externally? How is my life under pressure? What I find lost aspect of myself? The that the memory is cured, but lives in a memory, a symbol, like a swan's wing?

Drawing, painting, writing a poem or make a personal symbol for represent their relationship and journey with the story.

Reflect on this story all day in their practice of asanas. Find out whether certain body parts and chakras resonate with history and symbols. Let stand at the bottom of his psyche composting for a while. Journal about dreams or ideas you have. Draw a symbol to represent this task and the period of contemplation and work and come out. Describe in a few adjectives. Put it under your pillow and ask you to bring a dream.

About the Author

Since 2000, Sydney Solis has been spreading the joy and wisdom of yoga and story with classes, performances, trainings and workshops internationally. From her children’s show on PBS to The National Association for the Education of Young Children to the Estes Park Yoga Journal Conference, Sydney enchants audiences of all ages with Storytime Yoga.

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