White Lotus or Bust!

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This is me, your humble narrator, in blossoming lotus pose.

I recently found out that I have a month left at my current job (paralegal) before I'm laid off (July 31, 2009). Of course I'm trying to find a new job, but I'm also considering this abrupt change as an opportunity to reach out for the life I want to pursue.

Since I discovered yoga - for the first time in 2002, and then again in 2008, when it stuck - I have wanted nothing more than to fill up my life with it, to share the joy and peace that it's brought me. I know that the next step for me is teaching. The problem is that I am an ordinary gal with an ordinary job (soon to be no job at all), and I can't afford teacher training. I am certain that the training that's right for me is at the White Lotus Center in Santa Barbara, CA, with yoga masters Ganga White and Tracey Rich. But I just don't have the funds.

Virabhadrasana II (Warrior II)

That is why you're reading this! I started trying to think of things I have to offer in exchange for money - consigning clothes, selling jewelry I make on my Etsy shop - but the thing is, I also write really great stories. My fiction and essays have been published on the web and in print in the US, the UK, and Canada. I even received an honorable mention in the 2007 Washington Post Valentine's Day Fiction Contest, one of only about twenty so honored out of almost 1,000 entries.

Anjaneyasana (Crescent Lunge)

So, I offer to you my short stories in exchange for your cash. Three stories are on offer here, and a special bonus of a fourth story will be included for those who have the generosity to purchase all three. Each story is $3, and the cost for the four-story package is $9.

You can purchase (or just read samples of)
each story here.
You can email me here.

(kcoldiron [at] gmail dot com)

You can look at more pictures of me in yoga poses here.

Unsupported Ustrasana (Camel)

Stories don't interest you, but you're a practicing yogi (or a generous soul) and want to help me out? Well, here's another thing you can do. If you live locally to me (in the Annapolis, Baltimore, or Washington, D.C. area), use the "Donate" button below to donate $10 or more to me. If you do, I will schedule an individual yoga session for you, at your home or another convenient place, after I complete teacher training.

Namaste (I bow to you) to everyone who took the trouble to visit this page.

If Paypal is not available to you and you still wish to donate, please email me.

Matsyasana (Fish Pose). Laughing optional.

All pictures taken at Ridgely Retreat's Treehouse Studio on June 27, 2009 by Matthew Mason.

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Email me - kcoldiron [at] gmail dot com

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