An award winning writer, Teri is the author/co-author of ten non-fiction books, including The Fiery Muse: Creativity and the Spiritual Quest (Random House of Canada) and one for young adults, The Canadian Junior Green Guide (McClelland & Stewart). Written in conjunction with the highly respected environmental watchdog, Pollution Probe, it became a Canadian best-seller.

After completing two books on the environment, Teri began to focus much of her writing on topics related to creativity and contemporary spirituality, subjects of deep personal interest to her. Teri first began studying yoga in her twenties in Paris with a teacher who had lived in Mahatma Gandhi's ashram for more than twenty years. Several years later she traveled to India to meet Gopi Krishna - considered by many to be the world's leading authority on kundalini. Since then she has been a student of the philosophy behind yoga and has been involved in researching the link between creativity, inspiration, and mystical experience. Both her latest book, The Divine Feminine Fire: Creativity and Your Yearning to Express Your Self (Dreamriver Press), and The Fiery Muse deal with this topic; she has also written a number of articles and spoken widely on the subject.

An experienced public speaker, Teri has made many national television and radio appearances. Her freelance writing has appeared in such widely divergent publications in the United States as Family Circle Magazine and New Age Journal. Her books have been published in the United States, Canada, and Germany and have been translated into both German and French.

Her workshops on creative writing and the link between creativity and spirituality have met with great success, and she now divides her time between leading workshops and writing.

An avid traveler, Teri has lived in Austria, Germany, France and on a sailboat in the Bahamas. Teri is an enthusiastic swimmer and competes with a masters synchronized swimming team.
She is an active member of PEN Canada, the Writers' Union of Canada, and the Institute for Consciousness Research, and she was one of the founders of the Kundalini Research Network in the United States.

Originally from Idaho, she has an MA from the University of New Mexico. She now makes her home in Toronto with her husband and teenage daughter.

The Fiery Muse

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The Fiery Muse: Creativity and the Spiritual Quest weaves the stories of the impassioned lives of great visionaries, such as Hildegard von Bingen, Rumi, and Walt Whitman, together with those of everyday people - who range from teachers and homemakers to artists and actors - and shows how the creative spirit can transform your life.

Stories of the celebrated - such as Marion Woodman, John Tavener, and Sylvia Fraser - are also included. The awakening of kundalini-shakti and her role in creative inspiration and personal transformation is a common thread that runs through all of these extraordinarily varied and fascinating experiences. Creativity exercises that help you tune into this divine source of inspiration round off each chapter.

Here's what renowned yoga authority Georg Feuerstein has to say about The Fiery Muse:

"We are all creators and what we create—first and foremost—is our own life. Depending on our vision and courage, we can create a magnificent or a threadbare life for ourselves.

In this thoughtful and highly readable book, Teri Degler shows practical pathways for those wishing to unleash their creative powers and at the same time grow as human beings.

Drawing on the time-honored wisdom of the serpent power (kundalini-shakti), she explains why creativity and spirituality need not be worlds apart. She admirably succeeds in drawing the reader into the magical circle of spiritual creativity or creative spirituality.

This book, which is rich in anecdotes and practical examples, offers insights, hope, and encouragement. It is not just for artists and writers or mystics and students of kundalini yoga, but for everybody who dares to make more of his or her life."
Georg Feuerstein, Ph.D.

One of the world’s most respected authorities on yoga, Feuerstein is founder of the Yoga Research and Education Center and author of many books including The Shambhala Guide to Yoga (Shambhala, 1996), and Tantra: The Path of Ecstasy (Shambhala, 1998)

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