From the monthly archives:

October 2007

Children’s Yoga

October 31, 2007

In Mondays’ class, during snack children talked about their dreams and also what yoga they had practiced during the week. Many used breathing, to calm down anger or fear. Many did the sun salutation. Seems to be the most favored yoga at home! The kids wanted to start with relaxation again, as many seemed tired [...]

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October 16, 2007

I had a fantastic after school yoga class Monday, and I’m wondering if I’ve discovered something that helps kids focus. The theme of today’s class was SLOWNESS. To slow our minds down and get in pace with our body. We started with snack and checking in to see how kids did this week with practicing [...]

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October 10, 2007

Tuesdays’ afterschool storytelling class went well. A second-grader brought in a story she wrote about lions. It was a book of pages with illustrations about lions she did, stapled together. She read and showed it to the class. I was delighted that she was so inspire to write her own story! We started off with [...]

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October 9, 2007

In Mondays’ after school yoga class at Creekside Elementary, I used the Zen story of The Cherry Blossoms. We used a map to find Japan and China and other Zen-practicing countries, I explained to the kids that sometimes we will use stories from the Zen tradition, and sometimes we will hear stories from the Jewish [...]

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October 4, 2007

Yesterday I met for the second time with the Spanish Language storytelling group. Last week only two of the children enrolled had come, but this time we had eight. They were all girls first and second with one fifth grader. They are all Latina and most from Mexico. Many speak excellent English. They loved Sophia [...]

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The Grateful Crane

October 3, 2007

At Tuesday’s storytelling class we met in the library and sat in the cushiony area for a while, as the kids talked about how they used story this week. A second-grade girl brought in her drawing from when she heard me telling the Native American story of Jumping Mouse last week. She also made up [...]

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Starting Again at Creekside

October 1, 2007

All of my life I have kept journals. Funny I should resist online blogging for so long. At 40, I strangely missed the computer world. Didn’t touch one till 24, but now, having followed my bliss, I’m back into writing to talk about yoga and story. Today I started the Creekside Elementary after school yoga [...]

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