We are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us... It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again “invisibly,” inside us."
~RAINER MARIA RILKE
Art and It’s Story:
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Ritual Art:
"The way I was taught, praying with the sacred elements and believing they will arrive to inspire, conspire, assist, and communicate with you, is the most powerful ceremony and you can privately perform it in your heart."
Reconnecting to our inner honoring system of communication through and with the body is a natural state of being. In these classes students are lead through dream tending, somatics, deep relaxation, journaling, reflection, personal prescription, and the art of moving concepts through the body as cellular re-education. As classes deepen, students are led through voice, natural listening to body, and finally given an opportunity to offer their beauty to nature to whom we belong.
Classes:
Somatics
Ritual Arts
Movement
Yoga
(My yogic philosophy is below.)
LADY DEATH: A DEPTH PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
A photo film journey through curanderismo's view of the natural cycles of life, death, and rebirth. Remembering and reconnecting to our primordial connections to those no longer seen but forever present. A living metaphor of shadow to unconscious. Mediumship, channeling and prayerful movements as ritual art.
Available for view on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/rsu9-bppIjo
Available for view on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/rsu9-bppIjo
TO BE HUMAN: BRIDGES TO WORLDS
A photo film journey through the body as bridge. Navigates the underworld and the dream world through the lens of the indigenous for the purpose of recovering the body of feminine wisdom. Use of body map as an arts based research into understanding new age of wisdom and the birthing of the new god, Sophia.
Available for view on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/3MWIgJQzjo8
Available for view on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/3MWIgJQzjo8
Apache Creation Myth:
Available for view on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/yohqHC5_d-w?si=SJHNqbqaTUT3JffH
https://youtu.be/yohqHC5_d-w?si=SJHNqbqaTUT3JffH
Art Show:
Electropical Live Painting with DJ Nadi, February 16th, 2019 @ The Stonehouse, Nevada City, CA
Art Show: Mother, San Francisco August 2022
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YOGA TEACHES US TO CURE WHAT NEED NOT BE ENDURED AND ENDURE WHAT CANNOT BE CURED.”
~BKS IYENGAR
~BKS IYENGAR
Yoga:
Zonia's Healing Yogic Philosophy:
Three Integrated Styles:
1. Hatha Yoga: Slow meditative alignment based instruction leading to a short musical flow using the postures of the class influenced by Iyengar, Bikram and Ashtanga. Mulitiple breaths per posture leading to synchronized single breath dance per movement slow flow vinyasa.
2. Gentle Yoga: Joint mobility and spinal health self-healing stretching modality utilizing intuitive biotensegrity inspired flowing postures of both surrender and strengthening influenced by Feldenkris, yin, Qi Gong, and Pilates.
3. Pranayama Shamanic Yoga: Series combining breath, vocalizations, movements, bhandas and repetition to clear stagnant mental and physical energy Qi Gong, kundalini and indigenous related methodology.
My Yogic Belief System:
Yoga is a way of life for me now. When I began however, it was the beginning of coming back to life. I have utilized yoga asana, meditation, and breath work to change my health, my mind and my spirit.
I offer all my gratitude and strength to the practice of living life in union with all beings and seeing their cultural background, religious belief systems, and economic status as part of the magical mosaic of life bringing us together as one.
The idea that we are interconnected, not only with each other, but with the memories we are housing in the vessel of our body in the muscles, joints, ligaments, sometimes on our very skin we are the storehouses for experiences and every person we have made contact with or have had relations with is a part of our story lines.
I believe that the practice of yoga on the mat is gearing us towards understanding how to maintain boundaries but function together as one organism moving breath and dance simultaneously, like everything else in the planet that doesn't have the freedom to make so many decisions. They are easier to manuveur and therefore abide by a conscious code of creation and if we could surrender control it would all get back into place so much more easily.
I found yoga at the young age of 14. At that time it was a physical practice. After injuring myself in a snowboarding accident in my 20's, yoga became a lifeline and helped me come into deep contact with my intuitive self. This connection helped guide me through self-healing, not only my body but my brain of a pituitary tumor.
I have learned from the experience of moving from my spine and breath in order to retrain my body to move fluidly and listening to my inner guidance that yoga is an internal practice and a moving prayer. Asanas are the vehicle through which our mind-spirit move and changes us from the core. After 24 years of practice and a wide variety of personal adaptations and advancement, I teach to all levels. I train teachers how to teach Tantra Hatha yoga, as in yoga synchronized with instantaneous four limb independent middle mind orchestration, or inspiration, or breath. As you wish...
1. Hatha Yoga: Slow meditative alignment based instruction leading to a short musical flow using the postures of the class influenced by Iyengar, Bikram and Ashtanga. Mulitiple breaths per posture leading to synchronized single breath dance per movement slow flow vinyasa.
2. Gentle Yoga: Joint mobility and spinal health self-healing stretching modality utilizing intuitive biotensegrity inspired flowing postures of both surrender and strengthening influenced by Feldenkris, yin, Qi Gong, and Pilates.
3. Pranayama Shamanic Yoga: Series combining breath, vocalizations, movements, bhandas and repetition to clear stagnant mental and physical energy Qi Gong, kundalini and indigenous related methodology.
My Yogic Belief System:
Yoga is a way of life for me now. When I began however, it was the beginning of coming back to life. I have utilized yoga asana, meditation, and breath work to change my health, my mind and my spirit.
I offer all my gratitude and strength to the practice of living life in union with all beings and seeing their cultural background, religious belief systems, and economic status as part of the magical mosaic of life bringing us together as one.
The idea that we are interconnected, not only with each other, but with the memories we are housing in the vessel of our body in the muscles, joints, ligaments, sometimes on our very skin we are the storehouses for experiences and every person we have made contact with or have had relations with is a part of our story lines.
I believe that the practice of yoga on the mat is gearing us towards understanding how to maintain boundaries but function together as one organism moving breath and dance simultaneously, like everything else in the planet that doesn't have the freedom to make so many decisions. They are easier to manuveur and therefore abide by a conscious code of creation and if we could surrender control it would all get back into place so much more easily.
I found yoga at the young age of 14. At that time it was a physical practice. After injuring myself in a snowboarding accident in my 20's, yoga became a lifeline and helped me come into deep contact with my intuitive self. This connection helped guide me through self-healing, not only my body but my brain of a pituitary tumor.
I have learned from the experience of moving from my spine and breath in order to retrain my body to move fluidly and listening to my inner guidance that yoga is an internal practice and a moving prayer. Asanas are the vehicle through which our mind-spirit move and changes us from the core. After 24 years of practice and a wide variety of personal adaptations and advancement, I teach to all levels. I train teachers how to teach Tantra Hatha yoga, as in yoga synchronized with instantaneous four limb independent middle mind orchestration, or inspiration, or breath. As you wish...
- I teach beginners and people experiencing pain, how to move slowly, meditatively, and with ease open the body to greater flexibility...
- I teach advanced students new points of focus to deepen postures and building postures for strength and opening...
- To all students I teach listening to the body...
- Practice as consecration to the divine embodying us...
- Spontaneous movement so that the postures, not the mind, are moving you...
- Metaphysical messages the body is communicating through meditation, bhanda, and healing philosophy...
- Pranayama to cleanse the mind of anxiety, reset mental and emotional patterns and purification...
- Prayer as a way of thinking...
- Influencing healing modalities and concepts of self-healing...
