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Children’s Storytelling

Save Civilization – Tell a Story and Bring Folk to Life

January 29, 2011

My introduction to the rich cultural heritage of St. Croix and the Caribbean was from attending a tribute to educator and storyteller Delta M. Jackson Dorsch. I was proud of my two kids who sat for an hour through the dry messages for the elderly Cruzan author of The Role of the Storyteller in Virgin [...]

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Kids Yoga – Turtle Poetry and Poses

January 27, 2011

An anonymous poem about turtles, which are abundant here in St. Croix, gets little ones’ bodies moving and minds creating…….. There was a little turtle; he lived in a box. He swam in a puddle; he climbed on the rocks. He snapped at a mosquito; he snapped at a flew. He snapped at a minnow; [...]

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Don’t Just Let Kids Sit and Study, Strike a Yoga Pose!

October 18, 2010

My daughter and I were working on her Oak Meadow home school English literature curriculum together. We read a folktale about a little tree that wanted to be special. So an old man carved its wood into a lovely harp, which all the towns people came out to hear. The lesson was about plot and [...]

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Creating Story Warm-Ups for Children’s Yoga

July 28, 2010

For the last few days here at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York, where I have been giving the Storytime Yoga Children’s Yoga Teacher Training, we have been graced by a trickster woodchuck. His presence is welcome, as he romps through the grass, dashes into the foliage and nibbles on plants and even wanders [...]

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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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The Golden Princess

May 5, 2010

The Golden Princess I found it fitting that after I hung up from our LOYS call and talked about creating stories for children going through difficulty, my daughter needed to talk. She was being picked on at school, or told she was “dark-skinned” or her clothes were rags, or kids didn’t listen to her. Naturally [...]

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Buried Moon: Yoga and Stories for Children in Difficult Times

April 28, 2010

Whether its change in our lives on and inner or outer level or changes in the world, difficult times happen. Children need tools to deal with these changes. May’s League of Yogic Storyteller’s session features Buried Moon: Yoga and Stories for Children in Difficult Times. This English Story uses the rich imagery of the moon [...]

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Yoga and a Story for Young Girls’ Self-Esteem

October 27, 2009

Yesterday I taught an afterschool girls club at Emerald Elementary in Broomfield, Colorado. It was the second time I had visited this group of girls, and it was great because the social worker who invited me, Jo-lynn Yoshihara Daly, was a friend from high school. The girls are all Hispanic fourth and fifth grade. I [...]

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Celebrating the Season in Community

December 13, 2007

It had snowed heavily all day and I was so worried that people wouldn’t come to our school’s first Community Wellness Night, Tuesday Dec. 11.  Roads were slick, but schools had been open. The day before it was sunny and we were expecting 64 adults and 77 children. But we had a fantastic turn out [...]

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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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CREATING YOUR OWN GUIDED VISUALIZATIONS for CHILDREN

March 21, 2007

by Sydney Solis The Greeks said that the soul speaks in an image. It is the image that arises from the heart and connects us to the divine within. It’s also the illusion, the obstacle of the sixth chakra, that we must let go of and pass through to realize the ineffable mystery of the [...]

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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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Children are Hungry for Yoga and Stories

March 20, 2007

Namaste! I just returned from a wonderful trip to Philadephia for a Storytime Yoga teacher training I gave. I am always impressed with the wonderful talent and dedication of the teachers out there and was grateful to all who attended. In our discussion, participants told me how they tried out the stories and yoga in [...]

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