Biography karin weyland
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In the Copper Room, the children have been invested in an utforskning of restaurants. Their dramatic play often takes place in a restaurant, they’ve been doing cooking and baking in the classroom, and even made a collaborative refrigerator – copper colored, of course.
They’ve also been working on a new mindfulness and fine motor activity – sewing! In the classroom, they have been using stencils to help guide their stitches as they learn, and children have practiced pinching the thread and carefully threading their needle as well as tying knots at the end of the string.
Sewing requires that both minds and bodies are still and focused on a complex task. This ties into our mindfulness routines by helping us to be intentionally still as we focus our minds on a specific task. Our fine motor skills were also tested as we pinched and pulled the needle through the stencil.
In the Art Studio, the children combined these two explorations, a
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Kundalini Serpent Goddess: Rising from the Borderlands is the memoir of a former college professor of Sociology turned into a Kundalini Yoga Teacher, and her struggle in overcoming chronic pain and fibromyalgia—a disease that affects more than 10 million people in the United States, ninety percent of whom are women. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Karin bridges many cultures in her quest for home after having lived in New York City, the East Coast, Dominican Republic, California and Puerto Rico. Without losing her feminine essence and connection to Spirit, her narrative takes us deep into chronicles of Tupi-Guarani gaucho life, immigrant life in the Borderlands, Indigenous and Yoruba Goddess archetypes, and shamanic journeys.Dealing with illness, rejection, patriarchy and neo-colonialism, Karin triumphs in embracing her own Shakti power and feminine spirituality and in facing the shadow of her mixed background, liberating her family’s ancestral trauma rooted in patriarchy,
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Karin Weyland, Ph.D, is trained as a Yoga Therapy teacher, Vipassana Meditation, Buddhist psychology, Reiki, Shamanic Healing Journeys, and Rebirthing. She is also a visual artist, non-fiction Latina writer and sociologist.
Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Karin pursued her career in the United States and the Caribbean in the eighties and nineties. She has taught for over twenty years in the university system, and she is the author of articles and books on gender, migration, and spirituality.
A graduate from The New School for Social Research in New York City, she has been active in social justice and human rights issues for Latina women since the early nineties. She currently facilitates writing/healing groups for women under StarMoonSky.
Weyland is founder and director of the Melassa Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the transnational