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Children and Family Ayurveda

Ayurvedic Cooking with Kids Using Staples

March 4, 2011

One thing I really learned to do while my family lived in Argentina was to cook from scratch with staples. Here in St. Croix there are the American-style supermarkets and warehouse-style shopping with hoards of imported, frozen stuff, but I shake my head at my kids and say, no way! That’s junk, it’s expensive, and [...]

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Kids Yoga Home School Activities in St. Croix – and Your Own Town, too

January 23, 2011

It was getting rather hot in Buenos Aires, and we needed a respite from the big city life. So now we have moved on to St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands for the next leg of our Storytime Yoga Road School of Experiential Learning. St. Croix is the largest of the U.S. Virgin Islands, [...]

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Basic Ayurvedic Cooking for Kids

October 27, 2010

We are on a cooking rampage in Argentina, and attempting to adapt the local diet to ayurveda. Although my daughter is vata, my son pitta, and I am tri-dosha, we are working on the simple basics of ayurveda in every meal we eat here. The entire city of Buenos Aires was shut down today because [...]

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Cinnamon and Honey for Kids’ Ayurvedic Health

October 26, 2010

All of my life I have eaten honey. Mixed in plain yogurt or with tea, it’s a great alternative to sugar. I’ve always found that by regularly eating raw, local honey, I have fewer allergies, so encourage my kids to do the same. While in Villa Gesell, Argentina on the coast visiting my Dutch friend, Karin, [...]

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Yoga Home Schooling

September 21, 2010

We started our Yoga Homeschooling! It’s been going well these past few weeks. Yoga home school has a regular curriculum, yoga asana and philosophy curriculum as well as yoga home economics, such as cooking healthy, ayurvedic food and using ayurvedic herbs and vitamins. It also emphasizes sustainability and contributing to the household community with mindfulness [...]

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Deprogram, Radically Change your Family’s Diet with Natural Food and Ayurveda.

August 15, 2010

We have been on the island of Montserrat for almost a week now. This small island in which the capitol of Plymouth was destroyed by volcano in 1997, has slim pickings in the small grocery stores scattered throughout the island. My kids would love to have the candy, chips and other junk imported from all [...]

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Global education, yoga and the search for sustainable living

June 15, 2010

Nostaligic record store in Buenos Aires. I have come to Argentina in search of places to bring my children for a global education and sustainable living. As I see my home Colorado landscape and cities needing to be renamed “Suburbistan,” with its soulless architecture, monotony of consumerism and gutting of public schools, I started to [...]

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Going Somewhat Vegan as a Family

April 15, 2010

In preparation for an ayurvedic cleanse, I have been cutting back on dairy in our family. I have realized how much dairy I consume. Although I was a vegetarian for 13 years, I have been eating some meat since then. Lately I sort of accidentally started eating less dairy by deciding that I was going [...]

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Conscious snack and other kids yoga items

March 20, 2007

I teach 3-5th graders at an afterschool program at Creekside elementary in Boulder, Colorado. There is always a snack so getting right into yoga isn’t an option. I use the time to check in with kids about how they are doing, and if they are eating well and practicing yoga at home. One girl replied [...]

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