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Sundog Stories
by sundogs.blog
Stories and sounds from the wilderness, Yoga Nidra, walking, mindful and relaxation Meditations.The stories weave together experiences, usually of the natural world, with thoughts on impermanence, memory, uncertainty, hope and loss. For more episodes visit www.sundogs.blog
Episodes
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94 Wild Geese - Yoga Nidra
Wild Geese- A Short Yoga Nidra I heard the geese flying over our cottage this early morning and thought I'd send out a short Yoga Nidra, including Mary Oliver's lovely poem Wild Geese. To set the mood, you'll hear chickadees, a squirrel or two, blue jays and the rustling of wind in the high trees.
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93 Shoji - A Story
Shoji screens are made of translucent Japanese paper panels that lightly separate spaces. The screens form a thin divide between the outside and the inside world, yet intimately connect the spaces by transmitting light and shadow, sound and air. And, just as the glow of a candle, , and the smell…
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92 Buen Camino: One beginner's guide to the Camino de Santiago - A Story
One afternoon my husband and I were greeted by a robed, toothless, wild haired monk under the tall arches of a crumbling monastery. He hugged us, again and again, would not let go, pointed at my eyes, then his, then the sky: azul, azul. Blue, blue. Buen Camino is about walking the long road to...
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91 Temagami Time - A Story
"Trees warp time, or rather create a variety of times: here dense and abrupt, there calm and sinuous ." John Fowles Temagami Time is about our relationship with time.
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90 Wave - Yoga Nidra
This Yoga Nidra has you observe the rising and falling of awareness.
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89 Cold Cellar - A Story
Cold Cellar is about flat coke, woolen socks and our habits and hankerings for more.
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88 Sandstone - Yoga Nidra (for sleep)
This Yoga Nidra practice takes you down a steep path to the edge of an ocean (accompaniment by loud spring birds).
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87 Unheard - A Story
The Musquiem people have a word that means “things that are hidden”. The word is used to describe sacred objects, often ceremonial, that are thought to possess supernatural powers. These objects are not simply art or functional things, they embody stories and histories, the threads that tie the...
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86 March - Yoga Nidra (for sleep)
This Yoga Nidra practice will take you on a slow walk through the forest, on a winter night.
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85 Still Waiting - A Story
On my way back down I heard the ringing of copper bells that led the way, brought to life by long ropes pulled by passers by. And beside the entrance I now saw, what in the early darkness I had missed: the brightly painted Lord Ganesh, god of all beginnings, wisdom and understanding. Still…
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84 Sleep of Reason - A Story
Sleep of Reason is about rules, and sometimes breaking them.
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83 Levels of Light - A Story
This past summer we explored a distant part of Lake Cabonga, an immense reservoir that was created when lakes were dammed and flooded many years ago. What was once a part of light, now lives submerged beneath the surface of the lake. Levels of Light explores what lies beneath.
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82 Lake Cabonga - A Story
When we rounded the corner of a large island the wind struck us. The lake changed to emerald green, then black, darkening clouds were encircled by light, and within minutes the lake was boiling. Lake Cabonga is about a bumpy canoe trip, fear, faith, hope and trust.
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81 Potato Bugs - A Story
According to legend, some years ago, a powerful gust of wind ripped the net out of the clutches of the farm hands, lifted the long filmy white tail high into the stormy sky, across and beyond the hedgerows, and over the coolness of the darkly waiting forest. Potato Bugs is about our attempts to...
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80 Magic Spells - A Story
300 hundred years ago, one of my ancestors sat at his desk at night, in the house in which we both grew up, and copied out strange words and spells and symbols. The many pages show how threatened and insecure people were in their life on earth, though they yearned, as do we, for assurance and...
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79 Shoreline - Yoga Nidra (Full)
Here is a full length Yoga Nidra about midsummer walk along an early evening shoreline, recorded in a canoe on a lake. Listen for the loon.
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78 Seeds of Doubt - A Story
In the middle of the night, I will sometimes wake up in our small orange tent to listen to my growing seeds of doubt, will trace their shaping forms in my mind, will question the what ifs that lurk nearby.
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77 Shadows on the Wall - A Story
I have been frightened by a lot of things in life, and given my rather wild imagination, fear of the unknown is one of my favorite ones, keeps me up at night; although of course, there are plenty of other shapely warnings all around, hinted at and sometimes made explicit. 'Shadows on the wall' is...
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76 InBetween - A Story
I thought about a message an old high school friend recently sent to me. He’d been trail running through the woods, and found himself on a bed of feathers. In my imagination I saw hundreds of molting birds, shaking their soft wings. But no, he said, these weren’t feathers, it was cotton weed…
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75 Red-winged Blackbird - A Story
We navigated some rough waters, misjudged a jagged edge that left a scar on the bottom of our canoe, adding paint to the rainbow of others who had come before. And all the while we knew full well that we’d have to lead the canoe up these rapids again, at the end of day. Visit www.sundogs.blog for...
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74 Field Guide Day 2 - A Story
A symbol’s meaning lives largely inside our heads, and yet, despite lifelong dedication to its study, it only contains a dimly understood capacity to explain experiences, worries, hopes and dreams. And here lies its danger: if we are too caught up in meaning making, when we insist and stake our...
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73 Field Guide Day 1 - A Story
On a moonless, starless night, one of the only signs of an nearing dawn is whether I can see a hand in front of my face. The other indicator that day is within reach is the beginning of a reel of sounds unrolling. Some clever trick of unseen light, a simple click, releases today’s spool of sound:...
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72 Stinging Nettles - A Story
Stinging Nettles is a story about living in England, playing hide and seek in the graveyard, and about the good women who circled the wagon.
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71 Spring Birds - Sound Meditation
Birds songs recorded early one spring morning at the cottage, including a yellow bellied sapsucker, hermit thrush, a lot of chickadees and a few others.
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70 Corsets and Lotus feet - A Story
Picture for a moment a group of people high up on a narrow ledge, halfway up a cliff. Let’s call it a pedestal, the place we put virtuous, nice girls and women. Now imagine our little party teetering about on that ledge in 5 inch high heels, long towering necks, wasp like, breathless waists and...
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69 Forgetting Mrs Sprout - A Story
Two days after we moved in Mrs Sprout came through our always unlocked back door, strode up the 3 narrow steps into her old kitchen, searched the top of my new fridge for tickets to a concert at the NAC that night. Her friend waited in the car. She asked if I’d taken them, and questioned what I’d...
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68 Maple - Yoga Nidra (short)
Maple is a short yoga nidra practice that takes you across a white iron bridge to a large maple tree on an island.
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67 Bend in the Road - A Story
My husband hitched rides all over the world when he was young. I’ve only dared it a few times, including a ride, on a heavy rainy day, up the sunshine coast, and once when we hitchhiked to our honeymoon. Bend in the road is a story about a canoe trip down the Rideau river, hitchhiking and regrets.
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66 Free Wine and other plastic Things - A Story
What is it about free wine, food, free anything, that sends so many of us into a tizzy? Interestingly, we sometimes question the virtue of free items because we judge them to have no, or low, quality. In our minds we unfairly de-value the thing, decide that there must be something wrong, if it's...
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66 Compost - A Story
“We are all compost for worlds we cannot yet imagine.” (David Whyte) Composting has always been a bit of a surprise, an experiment: I never quite know what will slowly, and sometimes suddenly grow out of the bins’ corners. And I am a composition of all the good wishes and warnings, insightful and...
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65 Headstand - A Story
I fell off a ladder yesterday. The whole thing collapsed and I found myself lying on the ground, testing body parts, wondering about what I might have broken. It turns out I got away with a sprained ankle - it could have been so much worse, I tell myself. Sure, this will keep me not busy for a…
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64 Thawing Ice - Sound Meditation
The strange sound, snaps, cracks, gurgles and whips of a thawing lake.
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63 Krill - A Story
Some meeting spots create the conditions to support a rich, diverse marine life, including Krill: tiny, shrimp-like sea creatures. To escape hungry predators Krill migrate daily, vertically, in huge swarms that can be seen from outer space; but despite their brave efforts they end as fodder: far...
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62 Awe - A Story
For some, awe is proof of God; for others, science not only adds an explanation but increases their sense of awe, lifts them across the gap left by not knowing, sets them down on the others side, leaving them to wonder, wanting to know more.
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61 Sleeping Beauty - A Story
Warning: not much happens in this story, unless you count my description of a breathing lake; or count the unfortunate rent in my winter coat, torn by the thorns of tall blackberry canes. In this story, no coyote will suddenly trot across a frozen lake; and your tolerance, your threshold for...
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60 Begin Again - A Story
Come February, when the sun shows increasing signs of strength, when roots emerge from hibernating bulbs and their fleshy green spears have pried their way out, only then will I bring them out of their patient darkness.
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59 Endings - A Story
Some endings are explicit: clearly we are told what happens next: threads are gathered into tidy bundles, there is no room to question the explanation because the teller has decided on this version, as the truth. Other endings are implicit, and have you wondering what it means to live happily…
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58 Ice - Yoga Nidra (short)
Explore an icy world in this Yoga Nidra practice.
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56 Chocolate Rabbit - A Story
For years, I have been palming off a particularly adorable baby picture of my brother as my own. We mostly share the same features: blue eyes, nose, cheekbones. But that is where the similarity ends.
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57 Early Spring Colour - Walking Meditation
This Walking Meditation has you attending to the colours that surround you.
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55 Free Will - A Story
Are the paths we walk our own? What I mean is this: does everything unfold with intention, according to my own plans and free will? Is there inside me a tiny wizard of Oz, hiding behind the curtains of my mind, peering out through bony sockets, pulling levers, turning dials, shouting hoarse...
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54 Water - Sound Meditation
Sounds of a water, a canoe, crows and a loon (at the very end).
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53 Thunder and Rain - Sound Meditation
A few minutes of rain and thunder recorded last August.
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52 Stormy Sky - Yoga Nidra (short)
This Yoga Nidra practice involves rapid visualizations of objects and images.
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51 Refrain - A Story
Apparently he always had a book on his lap, marked his notes in its margins; filled notebooks with observations on migration, nature and spring. Later they all went missing: someone who was more practical likely used them to started a fire on a cold winter night. Refrain is about Atti, my great...
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50 Missing Words - A Story
Sometimes you meet the perfect word, like gigil, a Tagalog word meaning the irresistible urge to squeeze someone because they are loved or cherished. And sometimes there is no single word to capture a fleeting moment.
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49 Snow - Yoga Nidra (for sleep)
This Yoga Nidra practice takes you onto a field of snow and sun.
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48 Navigating the Movement of your Mind - Meditation
This meditation will make you more aware of the chaos of your mind, and practice navigating the waves of your thoughts.
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47 Thin Ice - A Story
The first step you take on a frozen lake is a beginning that you will never feel again. It catches the breath in your throat, and has you wondering: is it worth it? will I fall? should I turn back? And with every step you leave a little bit of yourself behind.
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46 Forest - Yoga Nidra (Full)
This long practice takes you deep into a forest.
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Stories and sounds from the wilderness, Yoga Nidra, walking, mindful and relaxation Meditations.The stories weave together experiences, usually of the natural world, with thoughts on impermanence, memory, uncertainty, hope and loss. For more episodes visit www.sundogs.blog
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