While much of the time we devote to yoga is spent being (SHHHH!) very quiet and extremely serious, there’s nothing like throwing a bit of humor into the mix. Ryn Gargulinski does just that with Bony Yoga. Her skeletal creations find themselves in all sorts of traditional yoga poses, with all sorts of untraditional commentary running beneath them. You’ll laugh out loud. (We can’t guarantee that stuff won’t come out your nose.) "I have been drawing skeletons since I was a kid and I am interested in yoga so it seemed like a natural mix. I may have even started drawing them to give myself a better idea of how my body should be positioned in the poses, as bones don’t lie." Gargulinski takes a bare-bones look at over 50 asanas common to a variety of different yoga styles.
Ryn Gargulinski is a journalist, poet, artist and performer whose work ranges from haiku to a master's thesis on the folklore of New York City subway workers. Born in Michigan only to take a Greyhound to New York City after high school, she eventually earned a BFA and MA from Brooklyn College and began to establish her writing, artistic and performance career.
Fed up with big city life in 2005, Ryn hightailed it West and has since worked at newspapers in New Mexico, California, Oregon and Arizona. Learn more at RynRules.com.
She currently serves as Ryngmaster for TucsonCitizen.com, where she writes four blogs: Rynski's Blogski, Rynski's Dating Game; Rynski's Day of the Dead; and Sawyer Says: Animal Talk.
Ryn's writing and art have appeared in a number of publications, anthologies and websites; she's been been featured on stage, radio and TV, and her art is for sale around Tucson and online at Rynski.Etsy.com and her website at RynRules.com. Her award-winning weekly column is broadcast every Thursday at 8:10 a.m. (MT) on KLPX.com.
Favorite topics in all her work include animals, death and wacky, random situations in this thing called life. Two dogs and two rats round out the Gargulinski household in Tucson where she continues to create and enjoy. "If you're not having fun, there is something wrong with all you're doing."
