About Prajna
Prajna N. Ginty, MA is formally trained in Transpersonal Psychology, Hakomi, Waldorf Education, 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 resource for children with learning challenges or developmental delays. She 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 populations, 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 one of the first on-site corporate massage and yoga business in Silicon Valley, CA. Ten years later her first baby was born, and she sold her business to be at home with her child.
Prajna holds deep respect and appreciation for spiritual practice, for her first teacher Eunice Zimmerman, 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. It seems like life before my twins were born was a blissful honeymoon—completely natural in all ways. Perhaps the ease of Autumn's 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, smaller than my hands. I am still daunted by 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 typical children let alone special needs children has heightened my interest in the practical applications of spirituality.”
The events of 9-11 had a huge impact on Prajna. She responded by inviting others to sit with her and listen to a greater intelligence that spoke to her. These meetings are often referred to as Satsang. These meetings when fully understood are a precious opportunity to awaken to our true nature and bring to an end relationships that cause suffering.
Prajna offers private sessions and group meetings by appointment.
“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...]