Sydney’s Story
Sydney Solis follows her bliss. Now in midlife, she has become a wandering digital nomad. She’s performing Kamishibai for Peace and also writing her travel and photo memoirs of the many countries she has lived in and experiences she has had.
A native of Boulder, Colorado, Sydney Solis former worked blending story, mythology and yoga with her pioneering work in Storytime Yoga® and Mythic Yoga. A former news correspondent and photographer, she is an award-winning performance poet, author, storyteller, visual artistic , activist and teacher of yoga. She has appeared on PBS, NHK in Japan, in Yoga Journal magazine, the Yoga Journal Conference, and has taught at Kripalu and The Omega Institute. She taught her pioneering mind-body programs Mythic Yoga and Storytime Yoga® worldwide online for 10 years and at Lighthouse Writers Workshops in Denver.
For many years she ran Joseph Campbell Foundation Roundtables in Colorado and performed Storytime Yoga® and Mythic Yoga at the Boulder Public Library. In 2010 she left Colorado, her home for 38 years, to live in Argentina, St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Japan. She now lives in Orlando, Florida.
Foto Arte: Sydney’s mixed-media collage and photography from the Personal Mythology Series, which have included shows at the Henle Studio in St. Croix, USVI.
Story Poetica: Poetry by Sydney Solis include publication in The Shambhala Times, The Caribbean Writer, Moko Magazine of Caribbean Arts and Culture, The Squawk Back, and live poetry performances at the Dan Pels Poetry Show and Mac DeLand Slam in Florida.
Mythic Yoga: Mental, physical and spiritual well-being with yoga and story. Creating personal mythology for healing trauma by re-enchanting the world we live in. What is your myth? If you do not know, find out with mythology and the story in the body. Get the E-book Mythic Yoga: Ancient Hindu Myth and Personal Story, first performed at the 2005 Boulder Public Library Winter Festival of Stories. Get the Mythic Yoga At Home Training, used in Sydney’s pioneering online courses since 2006, and start your Mythic Yoga Journey™ today!
Storytime Yoga®: Internationally acclaimed children’s yoga and oral storytelling program and media by Sydney teaching peace, heath and literacy. Storytime Yoga® for Kids is the original children’s yoga and storytelling program.
Sydney also blogs as The Orlando Urban Yogini for the Orlando Sentinel’s Hype Orlando website.
Follow Sydney on her Sydney in Osaka – Living the Mindful Life in Japan blog.