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[click "Play" to  listen to Beryl's interview with Susan]

 

Beryl Beryl Bender Birch is among the presenters at Aubrey Hackman's 4th annual Telluride Yoga Festival, July 14 – July 17.

Beryl's history is the history of Yoga in America, a story of assimilation and diversification and recently, big business. This spiritual teacher, yoga therapist, and author ("Power Yoga,""Boomer Yoga,""Beyond Power Yoga") was an early adaptor and pioneer: in the early 70s, the tie-dyed days of drugs, sex and rock 'n roll, Beryl, a former student of philosophy and comparative religion, became an avid student of yoga and the study of consciousness.

20 June, 2011 /
[click "Play" to listen to Jesse's interview with Alicia Stark]

 

By J James McTigue

Alicia Stark, RN-BSN, began her career as a labor and delivery nurse in a high-risk hospital in Virginia.  
She gained incredible medical experience, but realized she hadn’t learned anything about birth. This education came when she worked literally worlds away -- on the Navajo Reservation in Tuba City, Arizona.

Inspired by her experiences on the Reservation, she added certified Hypno-Birthing practitioner to her Bg-1 list of credentials.  She is excited to share the methods of hypno-birthing and what she refers to as birthing “tools” to pregnant women in and around Telluride. She will be teaching a two-day, Hypno-Birthing class, from noon to 6 p.m. on June 25th and 26th at Shantihi Yoga Studio in Ridgway. 

20 June, 2011 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Gordon Reichard and Dr. Sharon Grundy]

 

Health news you can use every other Monday

Dr. Sharon Grundy
Dr. Sharon Grundy

For 33 years, the Telluride Medical Center has provided health care services to Telluride and the 7,500 residents scattered throughout the R 1 School District. The Med Center is also the only 24-hour emergency facility within 65 miles. As a mountain town in a challenging, remote environment, a thriving medical center is vital to our community’s health. A brand new series on Telluride Inside... and Out features news you can use from the doctors at the Telluride Medical Center. Every other Monday, the column, To Your Health, will focus on news you can use to live a healthier life.

Remember the apple? No, not the one from the Garden that got us all in trouble. The one you take daily to keep the doctor away? Preventative medicine has come a long way since the original prototype. Now the challenge is making sense of the proliferation of received wisdom to make the right choices even about something as basic as which tests are essential. What should be routine in a "routine" check-up?

19 June, 2011 /
[click "Play" to hear Kristin Holbrook's conversation with Susan]

 

Daisy Dukes Who wears short shorts? For Telluride Bluegrass, Two Skirts is talking fashion with a southern twang. Kristin Holbrook is all about "Daisy Dukes."

"Daisy Dukes" are extremely short, form-fitting, denim cut-off shorts worn by young women, originally in the American South. For the boomer generation, these shorts are "hot pants" revisited. Very hot pants, named after the character, Daisy Duke (for trivia buffs, portrayed by Catherine Bach) in the TV series from the early 1980s, "The Dukes of Hazzard."

09 June, 2011 /
[click "Play" to hear Susan's conversation with Judyth Hill]

 

Judyth 1 Poet and author Judyth Hill is scheduled to be a guest instructor at Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts. Her workshop take place Friday – Sunday, July 29 – July 31, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. The subject is WildWriting.

WildWriting is an innovative process that encourages us to coax our minds into a Zen-like state of deep listening and at the same time remain open to the sensuous stuff we know, see, feel, hear, remember, forget, taste, and ponder. Weaving together what we understand with what we experience generates WildWriting.

Beginning to seasoned writers are encouraged to attend and develop a supple, supportive community. Judyth also provides a wealth of hand-outs with this class, lively, inspiring offerings of the Dharma Lineage of great poetry: Rilke, Rumi, Mirabai, Neruda, Dylan Thomas as well as reading lists of fabulous anthologies, and resources for making, performing, and publishing your own poems.

07 June, 2011 /
[click "Play" to hear Peter Sterios' conversation with Susan]


 Peter Sterios presents Gravity & Grace

Sterios-seated Ashtanga, Iyengar, Anusara, Viniyoga, Hot Yoga or Jiva Mukti. Whatever your practice – or if you are just a beginner with no regular practice at all – the weekend workshop at the Telluride Yoga Center provides foundational insights about ways to sharpen our attention and learn to listen to subtle body sensations that apply across disciplines.

June 10 – June 12, 2011, Peter Sterios, a licensed architect, founder of Manduka, a leading eco-yoga products company, and an inspiring yoga instructor, presents "Gravity and Grace: The Power of Surrender & Intuitive Response," a three-day immersion with live music and a special concert (open to all) on Saturday night. (Look for a related post about the performers.)

06 June, 2011 /

Sterios_headshot When yoga teacher and presenter Peter Sterios comes to town to teach a three-day workshop at the Telluride Yoga Center, Gravity and Grace: The Power of Surrender & Intuitive Response, he is not alone.

Sterios is joined by Dr. Masood Ali Khan and Sheela Bringi, two recognized soloists, who have collaborated at numerous yoga events: concerts, kirtan and workshops for some of the top national yoga instructors including Shiva Rea, Alyson Cook, and Peter Sterios.

 

06 June, 2011 /

[click "Play" to hear Kristin Holbrook speak about Tkees]   Rubber flip-flops? Life's a beach party in Telluride, but the only sand is in and around construction sites. Tkees, a collection of dressy leather sandals may be the answer, according to...

02 June, 2011 /