About Prajna
Prajna N. Ginty, MA is formally trained in Waldorf Education, Transpersonal Psychology, Hakomi, Integrative Yoga and Massage Therapy, 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 co-founded The Village School, an integrated Waldorf kindergarten based in Santa Cruz, CA.
Prior to becoming a mom, Prajna spent many years pursuing spiritual interests and practicing western and eastern approaches to healing; working with a variety of teachers and students. 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 more recently Adyashanti 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. Perhaps the ease of Autumn’s natural home birth gave me the strength and courage needed for what was to come with my twins birth of one pound each, a surgical emergency. 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. Observing children today is enough reason to integrate movement education and practical crafts in a learning program toward a conscious and kind sustainability for humanity.”
The events of 9-11 had a huge impact on Prajna. She responded by inviting others to sit with her and to relax and listen to this great intelligence that rises from the belly of our hearts rather than habits of mind. These meetings are often referred to as Satsang. They are an opportunity to connect with ourselves, our children, our families, our neighbors, our earth through silence and dialogue.
Prajna leads an embodiment journey for awakening women and men through private sessions, meetings, workshops and retreats.
Flowing River is a response to an ever-growing need to be present in our bodies, hearts, homes and communities by returning to practical skills through crafts; moving our bodies and staying grounded in our feet.
The proceeds from Prajna’s work supports the development of the Flowing River School.
“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...]