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Storytime Yoga charitably supports the following organizations:
Humane Society of Boulder Valley
Denver Safe House - In Memory of Frank Q. Solis
Children Love Yoga and Stories!
From story warm-ups to multicultural wisdom tales and kids’ original stories acted out with yoga poses, children play and learn with Storytime Yoga.
In unique Children's Yoga and Family Yoga programs, Sydney retells classic wisdom tales from around the world, and children act them out with yoga poses! Or children learn to tell their own stories and fairytales and script yoga poses with them!
Stories like:
The Peddler's Dream from England about following your dreams
The Lion's Whisker from Africa about the merit of patience
The Magic Pear Tree from China about giving and greedlessness
The Shipwrecked Sailor from Egypt about courage
The Buffalo Dance from Native America about respect and renewal ....and MORE! |
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Children also learn yoga philosophy, peace and character education through storytelling. Plus, songs, story warm-ups, story meditations and more!
Childhood is the perfect time to develop a lifetime of healthy skills. Readily flexible in mind and body, children are naturally receptive to yoga and story. In Storytime Yoga, children become storytellers as they learn about their bodies, feelings and relationships to develop self-confidence, self-worth, self-reliance, a vivid and creative imagination, and health and joy -- all part of a rich inner life that yoga, meditation and story connect with. These are the tools for success and happiness in adulthood.
As adults we can foster these tools by being examples ourselves. We accomplish this by practicing yoga, taking care of ourselves mentally and physically, and sharing story and time with our children and other loved ones. When there is love and peace for ourselves, then there is nothing but love and peace for others.
Let’s join together to raise happy children in healthy families all while healing ourselves and realizing our own potential. Here's to kid's yoga!
May there be peace in your heart and peace on earth.
Namaste
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About Sydney Solis
Since 2000, Sydney Solis has been spreading the joy and wisdom of yoga and story with classes, performances, trainings and workshops internationally. From her children's show on PBS to The National Association for the Education of Young Children to the Estes Park Yoga Journal Conference, Sydney enchants audiences of all ages with Storytime Yoga.
As a little girl growing up in Boulder, Colorado, Sydney frequently perused her father’s huge collection of books on yoga, myths, stories and religions of all cultures.
Her father was born in Indonesia and is a child survivor of the Ambarawa Japanese concentration camp on Java during World War II. Her childhood was influenced by his story and interest in Eastern religions and yoga. At age 12 she started meditating and joined Astara and later The Self-Realization Fellowship. When Sydney entered the eighth grade, her sister, Nancy (Narada), became a Hare Krsna devotee. Sydney learned the stories and philosophies of India.
She studied theater and dance at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and did work study with the Nancy Spanier Dance Theatre. She studied photography at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California, and earned a B.A. in Journalism and Spanish from Metropolitan State College of Denver. She worked in the United States, Mexico and Ecuador as a reporter and award-winning photographer, and was a religion reporter for the Bakersfield Californian. Sydney has worked as an English as a Second Language tutor in public elementary and high schools, and worked in her children's Montessori classrooms for seven years.
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She began practicing hatha yoga in 1993 after a hit-and-run car injury.
It was after settling down with married life and raising two children that she discovered her love of storytelling in 2000. She spent three years as a Spellbinder, volunteering to tell stories to public school children. After her husband's suicide in 2003, she became a professional storyteller and yoga teacher.
Sydney has more than 375 hours of training in the Anusara tradition. She completed a 200-hour Anusara training with her teacher, Bhakti and Level I teacher training with Anusara founder John Friend. She continues to Immerse herself in Anusara and yoga therapy with senior teachers Jeanie Manchester and Anthony Bogart , and studies Yoga Nidra with SreeDevi Bringi. She studied storytelling with Laura Simms, Rebecca Armstrong, Susan Marie-Frontczak and Kate Lutz.
She publishers her books through The Mythic Yoga Studio in Boulder, Colorado. She is the author of the storytelling CD The Golden Cucumber: Stories of Indonesia, 2003, Talking Dragonfly Productions; Chili Today, Hot Tamale and other Tummy Tales, 2004, Jems Press; and Storytime Yoga: Teaching Yoga to Children Through Story, 2006. The Treasure in Your Heart: Yoga and Stories for Peaceful Children, 2008, and the children's DVD The Peddler's Dream, 2007.
Sydney is an associate of the Joseph Campbell Foundation and has produced four World Peace Interfaith Storytelling Gatherings.
Sydney also writes poetry and creates photographic art. She lives with her two children, two cats and two dogs, in a little house with a big garden in Boulder, Colorado. |
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