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Children’s Storytelling

Kids Yoga Philosophy: This Halloween Teach Children About Death Through Story

October 28, 2011

In Ernest Becker’s Pulitzer prize-winning book, The Denial of Death, he writes that what young people need most in their lives is the chance to face death, be courageous and be a hero. True heroism and courage is about facing death, yet our Western culture is replete with heroes that merely shoot hoops or behave [...]

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Kids Yoga: Celebrate Diwali with the Story of Lakshmi and Rohini

October 24, 2011

It’s Diwali! The Festival of lights. This new moon on Wednesday, celebrate Diwali with your family and tell a few stories! Diwali is one of the most important festivals of India. It’s as big as Christmas, and many communities consider it their new year. Farmers of ancient times always prayed to the Goddess Lakshmi – [...]

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The Storytime Yoga Kids Club is Here!

September 10, 2011

We’re excited to relaunch this year’s Story-of-the-Month Club as the Storytime Yoga Kids Club. We’ve redesigned the monthly stories as complete downloadable activity books, filled with color pages, a Parent/Teacher Activity Guide, Kamishibai Cards Kit, pose pages and MP3 audio and video of Sydney telling the story! The 1-Year Membership features nine color illustrated, activity [...]

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Storytime Yoga Schedule for Live Kids Yoga Classes in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands!

September 6, 2011

Upcoming live classes and workshops include: • Storytime Yoga™ Preschool classes on Tuesdays from 10:30-11:45 at the Kalima Center, 54 King Street in Christiansted. Parents are invited to participate with their child to learn how to implement peace, health and literacy in the home. Begins Sept. 13. • Storytime Yoga™, Dance and Creative movement for [...]

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JIgsaw Puzzles as Kids Yoga to Develop Mind/Body Connection, Concentration, Teach Yoga Philosophy and to Have Fun!

September 1, 2011

I love puzzles. As a young child, my grandmother gave me puzzles as gifts. As a four-year-old, I wrestled with the basic pieces, and once mastered, was proud that I could easily fit them together again and again afterwards. I feel that puzzles I did as a child were an integral part of developing my [...]

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Hurricane Irene: When the Lights Go Out, Old-Fashioned Fun Comes In!

August 30, 2011

Last week my family and I experienced Hurriance Irene as her back end passed over us here in St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. It was quite an experience and we learned a lot about being prepared and what to do when the electricity goes out! What we learned is to use old-fashioned fun [...]

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Sun Stories and Yoga for Children

July 25, 2011

“The sun, the sun. I salute the sun. I open my heart to everyone. The sun rises, the sun sets. The whole world in my heart rests. Again I arise ready to live, happy to be and ready to give. The sun, the sun. I salute the sun. I open my heart to everyone.” Children [...]

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Demons, Devils and Darkness – Shadow Play for Children with Yoga and Story

June 24, 2011

While visiting France this May I toured the 15th century Chateau Tarascon in Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence. I was struck by the archetypical image of the immense castle towering ahead of me. The history of kings, queens, a hundred years’ war and prison and protection against invaders were spoken by the walls and halls. But it is the [...]

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Storytime Yoga preschool classes start September 13 in St. Croix, USVI

June 17, 2011

Learn and Play the Storytime Yoga Way! Bring your child and sit in the Little Lotus with the Queen of Bohemia, Sydney Solis, for an enchanting Storytime Yoga class to learn yoga, literacy, healthy living and peace skills. at the KaliMa Center, Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands Tuesdays Beginning September 13- November 22 10:30-11:45 [...]

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Mercy or Revenge? Aesop Stories and Yoga for Children

May 4, 2011

When I was a child my father frequently told me stories of when he was interned as a child in Japanese and Indonesian concentration camps for four years on Java during World War II. He told me stories of terrible cruelty and suffering, including the death of his father, who as a prisoner of war, [...]

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The Voice of Lady Truth – a folktale retold by Sydney Solis

April 28, 2011

Once upon a time there was a man who had everything in life. But he still felt he lacked one thing. He decided one day to leave everything and go out and find Truth. He searched the lands far and wide. He asked a townsperson if he had seen Truth,  “Oh, Truth will be a [...]

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Brother Simple – Teaching Children Mantra in this Month’s Story-of-The-Month Club

April 21, 2011

Recently a student asked me for a story that she wanted to include in a meditation that she was recording for military personal so that they could reconnect to their inner child. Thinking soldier, the 12th century story of Brother Simple from the Golden Legend came to mind. The main character is a soldier who [...]

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Stories for Mother’s Day

April 19, 2011

Passing along some wonderful stories and posts from a great storyteller lady. This from Jackie Baldwin of Story Lovers http://www.story-lovers.com/listsmothersdaystories.html A few gems from it 1) This is a Portuguese folktale, perfect for Mother’s Day. It is found in Folk tales from Portugal by Alan S. Feinstein. The title of the tale is “The Remarkable Woman” [...]

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Kids Yoga Class and Storytelling at St. George Botanical Garden April 13 in St. Croix, USVI

April 8, 2011

I’m excited to present Storytime Yoga in The Garden at the St. George Village Garden in St. Croix April 13 at 10 am. Held under the Kapok tree, this program for preschoolers and parents celebrates the Earth and upcoming Earth Day and is part of the Storytime Yoga Children’s Mission. Children are our future. Educate [...]

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The Treasure is in the Earth: Kids Yoga and Storytelling for Earth Day 2011

April 7, 2011

Educate children to treat Mother Earth with reverence and respect this Earth Day April 22 with Environmental Storytelling and Yoga. It’s crucial that we reach our youth to forge green attitudes about consumption and waste to ensure a bright future for the planet and humanity. I will be putting on Storytime Yoga in the Garden at [...]

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The World Needs Yogic Storytellers Now More Than Ever

April 4, 2011

It is as if the cosmic clock is tick, tick, ticking down the Kali Yug bit by bit. The multiple tragedies of the Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear threat compound the Black Swans of war in Libya, uprisings in the Arab world, corruption, greed and the economic spiral into third-world status around the globe. Indeed, [...]

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Japanese Tsunami Folk tale to Tell in This Time of Tragedy

March 14, 2011

When I first started telling stories, I learned this Japanese folk tale when I was a member of  Spellbinders volunteer storytellers. An old man tended his rice fields high up on a mountain. One day, he saw the sea recede and the great wave coming for the shore. He did not know what to do, [...]

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Kids Yoga: Every Day is the First Day of Creation

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A few years ago when I was creating the “Celebrate the Season” series of stories and lesson plans for families and communities to connect to the seasons through yoga and storytelling, I was stumped as what traditional story to use for spring. Naturally, the resurrection of Christ came up, which is lovely and appropriate for [...]

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Kids Yoga February Story: The Girl and the Puma from Argentina

February 22, 2011

I’m excited that this month’s Kids’ Yoga Story of the Month comes from Argentina, and features a brave young woman who defies authority and befriends nature. “The Girl and the Puma” guides yogis on a listening adventure in which they become the hero with their bodies and learn new outcomes to life’s challenges ahead. Join [...]

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Storytime Yoga Story-of-the-Month Club Keeps Kids Fit and Smart

February 10, 2011

An old man discovers how to make withered trees bloom again. A lone girl survives in the jungle after a mother puma feeds her.  A golden fish appears and grants a man his every wish. These fantastic stories from around the world, and more, arrive each month to members of Storytime Yoga’s Story-of-the-Month Club. I [...]

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