YOGA | Dreamwork | MYTHOPOETICS
Practices to tend grief, Stir Soul & Awaken with the animate earth
Song of the Withered Tree offers practices to accompany the aching places in the human and wider earth body.
Grief, loss, and vulnerability are essential to the human experience but we aren’t born knowing how to hold these experiences with curiosity and warmth. When these parts are felt and held, they mature and ripen the human, awakening the ancestral music of the wise feeling body.
Each practice invites you to befriend your feeling body as inseparable from the earth and enchant the mythic narratives of your psyche.
The Song of the Withered Tree is the soul song of the body’s wisdom and mythic depth born through journeying through the underworld of grief, loss, and surrender.
The withered tree of loss leads us to the nourishing waters of the soul that are inseparable from the earth’s mythopoesis.
The Song of the Withered Tree offers myth, dreams, poetry & ritual to accompany you on this journey of deepening into the mystery and awakening to our essential belonging to the animate earth.
Memory of Bone Gentle Yoga supports befriending your animal body through yoga asana and somatic movement with mindful awareness.
The class encourages self-compassion and invites you to explore your wise and intelligent senses while building strength, flexibility, and balance.
Flow like a meandering creek and enchant yourself with loving attention during this hour-long gentle yoga flow for adults of all ages.
This yoga flow invites mindfulness, play, and soulful exploration of the wonder of embodiment.
Explore the numinous world of your dreams in this eight-week dream circle.
This circle offers a container to open to the tender and wise dream world. It includes instructions on how to establish a dreamwork practice and tools for dream explorations.
We’ll tap into the wisdom of the body by inviting the dream image to be felt in the present moment.
You’ll receive warm accompaniment to meet inner worlds revealed in the dream’s underworld journey.
Hi, my name is Erin Riordan.
I’m a lifelong student of the plants, waters, fungi, and animals in the local ecosystem. I’m committed to discovering pathways for human reconnection with nature, within and without, through grief, ritual, story, art, dreamwork, movement, and generally, slowing down.
I studied creative writing at Marlboro College and yoga at Green Yogi and Prajna Yoga. I also practiced Zen Buddhist meditation and studied dharma at the San Francisco Zen Center. My teachers include eco-dharma activist Joanna Macy, Zen farm elder Emila Heller, Zen master Reb Anderson, and non-violent communication wizard Sarah Peyton.
Some of my favorite activities are losing track of time resting under a redwood tree, foraging fruit and mushrooms in my watershed, and meandering in my kayak in Tomales Bay.
Find poetry & essays here
Songofthewitheredtree@gmail.com