About Margie Weaver & Shelter In The Storm
In October 2017, responding to a years-long call to live at a slower, simpler, saner pace, and to expand my offerings beyond traditional yoga studios and educational institutions, I sold my century-old home of 25 years and left 31 years in the urban hum of Minneapolis for rural Port Angeles and the sweet Dungeness River Valley between the mountains and the Salish Sea on Washington's North Olympic Peninsula.
In October 2018, I chanced upon 3 quiet acres along the Olympic Discovery Trail, where we converted an unheated woodshop into an open studio and living space, so that sane practices might be offered there through a variety of Crafts and Classes.
And then, came Covid, putting a mandatory pause on gathering in person, but leaving lots of time for making.
My past includes earning a BFA (University of Toledo, Ohio) and an MFA (University of Minnesota--Minneapolis) in Theatre Acting, resulting in two decades of professional theatre and film acting and university teaching; followed by 15 years as a full-time instructor of yoga, breathwork, and chanting in various settings with diverse populations--4 of which were dedicated to being a founding instructor and managing director of One Yoga, A NonProfit Organization (https://www.one-yoga.org), along with a dozen years as the yoga instructor for the freshmen company of the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater Bachelor of Fine Arts Actor Training Program.
Since 2011, I have been a scholar in Stephen Jenkinson's Orphan Wisdom School in Ontario, Canada (https://orphanwisdom.com). In 2016, I volunteered to help launch 612 Sauna Society Cooperative (http://612saunasociety.com) in Minneapolis as a founding steering committee and board of directors member, before moving to the Pacific Northwest.
Whether honing the human skills of grief and gratitude for the gift of life through voice, breath, movement, handwork, and our relationships with the world, these times seem to call for sane practices, so that we might proceed knowing that our vibrant whole health is entwined with the health of the whole world. Every choice has consequence. Everything matters.
"We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it." ~ Wendell Berry
In October 2018, I chanced upon 3 quiet acres along the Olympic Discovery Trail, where we converted an unheated woodshop into an open studio and living space, so that sane practices might be offered there through a variety of Crafts and Classes.
And then, came Covid, putting a mandatory pause on gathering in person, but leaving lots of time for making.
My past includes earning a BFA (University of Toledo, Ohio) and an MFA (University of Minnesota--Minneapolis) in Theatre Acting, resulting in two decades of professional theatre and film acting and university teaching; followed by 15 years as a full-time instructor of yoga, breathwork, and chanting in various settings with diverse populations--4 of which were dedicated to being a founding instructor and managing director of One Yoga, A NonProfit Organization (https://www.one-yoga.org), along with a dozen years as the yoga instructor for the freshmen company of the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater Bachelor of Fine Arts Actor Training Program.
Since 2011, I have been a scholar in Stephen Jenkinson's Orphan Wisdom School in Ontario, Canada (https://orphanwisdom.com). In 2016, I volunteered to help launch 612 Sauna Society Cooperative (http://612saunasociety.com) in Minneapolis as a founding steering committee and board of directors member, before moving to the Pacific Northwest.
Whether honing the human skills of grief and gratitude for the gift of life through voice, breath, movement, handwork, and our relationships with the world, these times seem to call for sane practices, so that we might proceed knowing that our vibrant whole health is entwined with the health of the whole world. Every choice has consequence. Everything matters.
"We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it." ~ Wendell Berry
Photo credit: Ian MacKenzie
