The Dragon's Egg

The Dragon's Egg It will also be available for various other workshops and performances of a theatrical and/or spiritual dimension (e.g.

The Dragon's Egg is a unique studio space located in a beautiful setting in Ledyard, Connecticut, and serves as a rehearsal space for the Mystic Paper Beasts, and is home to regular classes and workshops in yoga, dance, creative and healing arts. The Dragon’s Egg is also to serve as a rehearsal space for the Mystic Paper Beasts,
and as a rehearsal and teaching space for related arts: (dance, theatre, yoga, mask, puppetry). poetry readings and workshops, women’s groups, peace groups, anti-racism workshops, consciousness raising gatherings, storytelling workshops, etc.), at the discretion of the board. The space is offered with the understanding that all who use the space will do so with a sense of reverence and responsibility to the earth upon which it stands, to the actual space itself, and to the communities of which we are all a part, human, animal, bird, fish, stars, all beings.

11/05/2025

The Dragon's Egg rebuild, post fire, is almost at an end, enough so that we shall host our First public event on

Sunday November 16th at 1 pm
Tellabration!!

Tellabration is an annual, state wide celebration of Storytelling
in which the Mystic Paper Beasts/Dragon’s Egg have participated for many years.
It is organized by the wonderful Ct. Storytelling Center, in New London.
ctstorytelling234@gmail.com

We are very excited to announce that we shall meet again at the Dragon’s Egg!
At 401 Shewville Road, in Ledyard (1.4 miles from rte 184)
On Sunday, November 16th at 1 pm

This will be the First Event to occur at the Egg since the fire on March 24, 2024. We are in the final stages of rebuilding, and the Egg is basically empty,
so the event will be a BYOC - or bring your own chair or cushion!

this year’s roster of Tellers - yay!
Elizabeth Gruber
Steve and Ako Long
Seamus Philip Berrigan Sheehan-Gaumer
Aarya Ursin Kaur Tiwathia
Marya Ursin (MC and maybe teller)

Please join us!
Xo namaste, marya

again - This is a bring your own cushion or chair (rubber footed, or with a towel to protect the new floor) event, as we no longer have either to offer, at least not as yet.
One step at a time, but this one is a happy little dancing hop of hope and celebration!
I hope to see you there.

Suitable for all ages.
as I say, bring something to sit upon.

We just presented 11 dance/music companies on 9/20/25 in NYC = Dragon's Egg Presents at University Settlement. It was g...
09/22/2025

We just presented 11 dance/music companies on 9/20/25 in NYC = Dragon's Egg Presents at University Settlement. It was glorious.
And we have a date for fall 2026, already!
Meanwhile, the rebuilding and repair of the Egg proceeds slowly. I hope it will be soon hosting dancers and actors, musicians and puppeteers, poets and storytellers, before the end of the year!
Onward!
Happy Equinox! and the dark of the moon.. or actually, the baby crescent for new beginnings.
xo marya

04/26/2025

The Dragon's Egg is moving slowly but surely through the permits process, to enable rebuilding. It is simply taking time, but I trust that the actual work will begin soon. There are lots of code upgrades required, it being 2025, and not 1998. It has been 13 months since the fire. Wishing all blessings on the venture, and may you all walk in peace. xo marya

04/26/2025

Christie Williams has been named the first Poet Laureate of Stonington! yay... there will be a welcoming ceremony open to all on May 19th, from 4-6, at LaGrua. Come!! xo m

04/01/2025

First it was the small lizard in Dan's studio, lurking under the generator, then it was the slightly larger one on the tree by the compost, then it was the one that scuttled across the path of my little granddaughter when we went to the paddock. Swift they are, with those sharp little nails and body-close-to-earth manner of being...
I looked them up. Lizards in Connecticut. There is only one lizard indigenous to Ct. and it has stripes down its back. These do not.
I thought pet stores. People flushing reptiles and amphibia - those of the double life - down toilets. I thought infestation or invasion.
There were questions on google - things like: what do they eat? are they poisonous? how big do they get? what do you do if they get into the sheets of your bed? what happens if you swallow one? will lizards take over the world (again) and how should I prepare, and so on. Questions by excitable sorts. I am not going to be they.
The kitties just watch. No pouncing.
A bit of a back away, truth be told.
And still, I worry. It is a Concern.
So this morning, when I slid open the back door into the garden - it is getting warmer now - the kitties and I, we all three balked, we started, we stared, for there, on the picnic table, was a Group of Lizards (which you must know is called a "lounge of lizards"!), festively attired, arranged picturesquely as for a long exposure photograph...Others were at the far end moving in a circle in a perfect Pavane, a dizzying mix of the manners of the 16th c and the couture of ohhh from Balenciaga to Rei Kawakubo. The photographers were flitting about; the subjects were lounging about. While designer gowns were a plenty, some eshewed all such and appeared more au nature, in the all together, shall we say. Unsung emperors.
Then, they noticed us.
They all, all,
--- Looked Our Way.
Beady little black eyes (do they blink, I thought to myself..and then - is this something where the one who blinks first....oh, no, then what.). All focussed on us. As a performer, this may seem desirable, but, in the moment, not so much.
The two kitties, Sita and Misty, levitated, then disappeared, only to come stalking rigidly out from around the corner with eyes peeled wide and wondering. They did not hiss. What next?
Of a body, the lizards swiftly rose and bowed, and said some pleasing words of beauty and greeting, quickly gathered their lounge things, and disappeared into the crevices of the rocks, under the sculptures, behind the ivy. Such polite guests. (They had not even been served water as a cue.)
Shocking? A dream? nay, we say.
It was all in a fool's play, on this day of Fools.
And I wish you well!
xo marya

Samhain blessingsThe moon will be transiting scorpio from about midday on Thursday through Saturday eve. It will be "vo...
10/31/2024

Samhain blessings

The moon will be transiting scorpio from about midday on Thursday through Saturday eve. It will be "void of course" in the middle of Saturday night for a short time. The moon will be dark and then new early Friday.

Coinciding with the dark moon this Friday Nov 1, the next few days are an especially potent time for a home ritual. Samhain (aka Halloween or All Hallows) is the halfway point between fall equinox and winter solstice.

Lunar Samhain is traditionally the dark moon closest to the halfway point between fall equinox and winter solstice.

The dark moon spans 3 days when the moon is not visible, so you could celebrate this Thursday, Friday or Saturday.

You could burn white sage

Samhain ushers in the dark time of the year, when like the plants, you're naturally pulled down to your roots—to draw inward and rest.

Many cultures consider this to be the time of the year when the veils between the worlds are thin. So it's a powerful time to connect with your beloved dead and ancestors.

It can also be a time of letting go—perhaps an old way of being, or your experiences over the past year.

In whatever way you choose honor Samhain this year, this seasonal marker is a powerful opportunity for healing.

(taken from Corinna Wood's message)

Tellabration! 11/9 at 3 pmTo honor storytelling, the Ct. Storytelling Center hosts storytelling events throughout the ...
10/21/2024

Tellabration! 11/9 at 3 pm
To honor storytelling, the Ct. Storytelling Center hosts storytelling events throughout the state during the month of November.
The Dragon’s Egg has consistently been a part of this event.
This year, we shall have a Living Room Tellabration!!! With a number of tellers, on
Saturday, 11/9, at 3 pm
At our home at 8 Hancox Street, in Stonington.
Please join us! There will be tea and cookies and stories and You!
Rsvp
I look forward to seeing you.

And - put this on your calendar: we shall have a round robin reading of
A Child’s Christmas in Wales on December 8th, at 2 pm.
Rsvp.

I look forward to seeing you!

Xo namaste, Marya

10/15/2024

Playreading this Sunday is at 2 pm! I forgot to give the time in my earlier post... Come read the Birthday Party by Harold Pinter with us - listen or read... bring your own copy!
Library...
xo m

Next Sunday, on October 20th, we shall have tea and read, together, The Birthday Party, by Harold Pinter, in our Living ...
10/15/2024

Next Sunday, on October 20th, we shall have tea and read, together, The Birthday Party, by Harold Pinter, in our Living Room at 8 Hancox Street in Stonington. You may read or listen. I look forward to seeing you!
Do please RSVP.

Then, on November 9th, Saturday, at 3 pm, we shall have our Living Room Tellabration, for tellers and listeners alike! Please come, and let me know via email if you would like to be a teller or a listener.

We shall have a Holiday Gathering in December to read A Child's Christmas in Wales... we might do this as a zoom meeting as well as an in person one. Date tbd. Interested?

I don't think we can do a living room holiday bazaar, as we have been wont to do at the Egg in past years, but I shall think on that! heh.

This week, I have marya zoom yoga on Tuesday at 8:30 am
and on Friday and Sunday at 8 am.

And the full moon is on Thursday!!

xo marya

10/12/2024

Hi!
As usual, I would like to host Tellabration, but we have no Dragon's Egg this year.
I am thinking of alternative ways to honour and celebrate storytelling during November: I think I may hold one or possibly two gatherings of tellers of stories and tales as Living Room events, throughout the month of November.
These would be in my Living Room at 8 Hancox St in Stonington, so it would be informal, and would be a bit more like a small gathering/party for friends.
Are you interested in being a teller, or a listener?
Here are some times I am considering.
11/9 at 11 am or at 3 pm or at 4 pm
11/10 at 4 pm
11/17 at 3 or 4
xo marya

09/28/2024

Yesterday's event at the Hygienic was lovely - the panel, the wonderful poets. The show comes down Saturday afternoon, so do come, if you can!

The Lisa Race concert is this weekend: Friday and Sat evening and Sat natinee, at Cro Wms at Conn College.

The Lyman Allyn Opening is tonight from 5-7 pm.

Dragon's Egg Presents was great, in case you have missed my earlier posts this week. Here is a photo of me, at the end of the concert.

xo marya

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