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Children’s Yoga

Storytime Yoga for Kids Live: The Twisted Chicken Warm-Up (Los Pollitos Dicen)

November 2, 2011

Use this warm-up with kids using eagle pose, garudasana. I used a fun folk toy I picked up in Mexico to sing the folk song of Los Pollitos Dicen. I asked kids to join in the chant of pio pio pio. I explained the meaning of the Spanish words and most kids had heard this [...]

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Storytime Yoga for Kids Live: The Skeletons’ Ball – folk song and movement for Halloween fun

October 29, 2011

Bring folk music to life by adding a chant and movement! I translated and retold this classic Latin American folk tale of Chumba la Cachumba as The Skeletons’ Ball for our October Storytime Yoga Kids Club feature. This is the live version told at my daughter’s school for their Halloween party! Subscribe to the Storytime [...]

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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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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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The Queen of Bohemia: Props for Children’s Yoga Classes Part I

July 4, 2011

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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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Three Basho Poems for Children’s Yoga

May 10, 2011

For a contemplative children’s yoga class, try using Basho’s Haiku poetry. • Explain who Matsuo Basho was and what Haiku is. He was a famous Japanese poet who lived from 1644 – 1694). Basho was known during his lifetime for his works in the collaborative haikai no renga form.  Today he is recognized as a master of brief [...]

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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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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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Yoga and Storytelling for Trauma

March 24, 2011

Today, March 24, 2011, marks the 8th anniversary of my husband’s death. I remember well that morning of my husband’s suicide, and one of the first things I did was call up and ask master storyteller and teacher Laura Simms for a story. This is what she told me. A man’s beloved son was suddenly [...]

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New Storytime Yoga Teacher Certification Announced for September

March 10, 2011

I have made many changes in my life this year. It was a big risk, uprooting myself and children, taking a sabbatical from Storytime Yoga and venturing out into the world to live my dream and experience life to the fullest. I am glad I had the courage and faith to do so, as the [...]

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The Joys and Challenges of Teaching Yoga to Preschoolers

March 6, 2011

The Joys and Challenges of Teaching Yoga to Preschoolers A special guest interview with Margaret Ricciardone, Certified Storytime Yoga Teacher We recently interviewed Margaret Ricciardone from Waldwick, New Jersey, on her children’s yoga teaching experiences. Find out what her students’ favorite stories are, what she finds most challenging about teaching yoga to preschoolers, her advice [...]

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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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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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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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Mermaids and Hanuman!

November 30, 2010

Sovan Macha is a lovely mermaid that was messing with Hanuman’s rocks that he placed in the sea to make a bridge to cross to Sri Lanka to rescue Sita from the Demon Ravana. This little known version of the Ramayana comes from Cambodia. I thought it was a delightful twist to the tale. The [...]

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