Siofra
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Writer, workshop facilitator, teacher |
| Location | Wicklow, Ireland |
| Introduction | I'm a writer of fiction and travelogue, a sometime free lance journalist, a creative writing workshop facilitator, a teacher of English, Polish and Tibetan languages. How myth informs our lives unconsciously fascinates me. How dreams are made, and how they manifest. |
| Interests | Myths, legends, nomadism, deities, ghosts, faeries, Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Bollywood, Belly dancing, mountains, trees, tea, astrology, EFT, ancestors, community education, history, gardening, meditation, yoga, ethnic music, shamanism, herbalism, sylkies, mermaids, dolphins, whales, India, Mongolia, Siberia, Russia, Poland, Japan, Australia, America, North and South and Tibet, and Tibetan Freedom. |
| Favorite movies | Ten Canoes, Balzac and the Little Seamstress, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Dead Man, Down by Law, Room with a View, THe Secret of Inish Roan, Spirited Away, The Secret of Kells, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, Dil Se, Banarsas, Himalaya, House of Flying Daggers, The King's Speech, Laurence of Arabia, The Third Man, Whale Rider |
| Favorite music | Traditional and ethnic, chant |
| Favorite books | The Master and Margherita by Bulgakov, Murphy by Beckett, A Crock of Gold by Stephens, Ancient Irish Legends by Lady Gregory, The Wisdom of No Escape by Pema Chodron, The Way of the Warrior by Chogyam Trungpa, Wuthering Heights by Bronte, Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Women who run with the Wolves by Pinkola Esteis, Shambhala by Nicholas Roerich |