About Prajna
Prajna N. Ginty is formally trained in Hakomi, brain therapy, yoga therapy, spiritual mentoring, and is mom to three beautiful girls. She is a co-creator of the Flowing River. Her children brought the initial impulse to create a movement-based holistic healing education school that includes people/children with special challenges; she is joining with others in response to this impulse to bring the school into being. She co-founded The Village School, an integrated Waldorf kindergarten based in Santa Cruz, CA.
Prior to becoming a mom, Prajna spent many years focusing on spiritual liberation; practicing western and eastern approaches to healing; working with various teachers; serving in ashrams, prisons and soup kitchens; and facilitating meditation retreats and women’s groups.
Born and raised in New York, Prajna attended University in New York and Boston. After working briefly in the corporate sector, she used her healing talents to begin the first on-site corporate massage and yoga business in Silicon Valley, CA. Ten years later her first baby was born, she sold her business and began teaching Mommy and Me yoga classes while being a sales distributor of kangaroo baby carriers.
Prajna holds deep respect and appreciation for spiritual practice, for her first teacher Eunice Zimmerman, and mentors Adyashanti and Marlies Cocheret de la Morinière, and for the breath of grace and wonder that each being brings to us.
“Autumn—my first born—opened my eyes to the precious gift of childhood and the important task of raising healthy, happy children—and my soul to the wisdom of the body and the importance of the feminine heart. I often refer to life before my twins as the honeymoon phase of spiritual awakening. The bliss of Autumn gave me the strength and experience needed for what was to come with my twins. Yet I am still daunted by the information and research that is manipulated to serve economic interests and the lack of appropriate resources for medically fragile children. My experience with the obstacles that parents face to be responsible in raising healthy and happy children has heightened my interest in the practical applications of spiritual awakening toward a conscious, kind and sustainable embodied humanity.”
Prajna emerged with a new level of compassion after the events of 9-11. She responded to a deep request by inviting others to sit with her and listen deeply to an intelligence that rises from the belly of our hearts rather than habits of mind. She calls this the feminine flow of wisdom. This flow includes harmony within our children, families, neighbors, businesses and earth.
Prajna is a pioneer in leading the embodiment journey for awakening women and men through private sessions, meetings, workshops and retreats.
Flowing River is a response to an ever-growing need for a new consciousness, awakened feminine leadership, and liberation of the heart of humanity.
The proceeds from Prajna’s work directly support our vision for the Flowing River. Places where women, men and children gather strength, healing, education and resources to live their awakened potential and share meaningful lives while sustaining our environment.
“A true friend in the vastness. May all beings benefit from your Dharma.”
~ Adyashanti, Zen Master
Open Gate Sangha, San Jose, CA
“It is more than three hours round trip for me to visit Prajna and her wonderful satsang but it is such a joy to be with her open-heart presence. Her path is an amazing story of strength and courage and I eagerly await the completion of the book she is writing about it. I find her so ordinary, so comfortable, so unpretentious, yet a model of embodiment and an extraordinary teacher. I am honored to know her.”
~ Sally Watkins, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Psychotherapist, Writer, El Dorado Hills, CA [more...]
In the sweet darkness of winter
may your entry way to love’s
hidden treasure
Widen
With gaiety, and the crisp splendor
Of child like imagination speaking
What you didn’t know you knew
And
Exposing an outlawed view
Of creation
Silent, wild and free.
~ Prajna – 2006 [more...]