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Family, Global Education and Yoga Homeschooling

Raven Brings the Light – Celebrate the Season with Children, Story, Yoga and Art

December 1, 2011

The sacred time is upon us. The stories call us within. The Inuit story of Raven Brings the Light takes us on a journey to align our minds, hearts and bodies with nature and the season. Join me in bringing storytelling back to the world. Bring back our imagination and lead the people to light [...]

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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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World Food Day, Super Youth Chefs and the Amazing Regenerating Celery Stalk

October 17, 2011

Last night was one of those moments you never forget as a mother. I was so proud of my son, who at 13 took the World Food Day 4-H Jr. Super Chef Championship as Captain for his Good Hope School team here in St. Croix. I was beaming, and he was really happy. I was [...]

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Treasure Chests of the Imagination: Hit the Thrift Stores Now to Make Halloween Costumes

September 20, 2011

Our family loves Halloween. It’s a tradition of ours to throw a big party. I think we love the costumes and make up the best. But also what I love is that we get to have our dark side expressed. As well as our creativity! When my kids were young and I had time, I [...]

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Heartbreak and Rejection: Your Stories Help Ease the Pain of your Teen’s

September 19, 2011

My son called me to be picked up early after school because he said he didn’t have any homework and that he wasn’t feeling well. In the car I asked him about the physical symptoms, and he said he was “all right.” It was his sister who quietly used her psychic abilities to say that [...]

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The Old Man in the Cabana – Cultivating Seva and Compassion in Children

September 12, 2011

I believe that there are many things that can be taught to children only by example. Healthy eating, a personal yoga and meditation practice, and discipline must come from your own example of practice before it can be emulated by children. I believe that compassion and serving one’s fellow human is also taught by example [...]

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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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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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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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Simple Routine for a Yoga-Home School Morning

November 4, 2010

A family yoga practice lets you to be sure that your children are being taught the values that are important to you -  health, spirituality and deep family connection. Starting a family yoga practice in the morning can be beneficial way to start your day with the kids. At our yoga-home school here in Buenos [...]

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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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The Power of the Pause – Homemaking and Children as a Priority in Life

October 13, 2010

There is a Tolstoy story called The Three Questions. A King wants to know the answer to three questions. What is the best time to do each thing? Who are the most important people to be with at all times, and what is the most important thing to do at all times? The King ultimately [...]

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Jesus the Guru

October 8, 2010

Recently in Tennessee in the United States of America, firemen allowed a man’s home to burn to the ground. It turns out the man didn’t pay the $75 firefighting fee to the city. So the firemen just stood there. They only took action when the fire spread to a neighbor’s property, because the neighbor had [...]

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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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Recipe for Argentine Torta in Two Languages

September 18, 2010

Cooking from scratch is fun, saves money and is an essential skill to teach children. It will help children in the future as we live in an uncertain economy where jobs  for teenagers and young people have all but disappeared. In Argentina, after the economic collapse, service skills enabled people to start their own businesses, [...]

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Quinoa – a Super Food for your Family

September 6, 2010

I love quinoa. It’s easy to prepare, super high in protein and vitamins, and is great for a main dish. I lugged some quinoa with us to Buenos Aires for a high-protein staple, although I’m finding that it’s readily available in most supermarkets and special health food stores here, called Dieteticas. Quinoa is a grain [...]

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Blending in as Argentines

September 1, 2010

I had to ditch my capris and my son’s shorts that shouted TOURIST, especially coming from Montserrat and having my legs pocked red with mosquito bites. It’s still winter here, and an Argentine woman gave me the once over with her eyes, so I thought it was time, and that way we’d blend in more. [...]

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Stories and Metaphors of the Eternal to Explain Yoga Philosophy to Children

August 30, 2010

Things are never as they seem. Opportunities to teach yoga philosophy to children abound! We are back in Buenos Aires after a rather interesting experience at the Nuevo Vrindavana Eco Yoga Park in Argentina. At first we openly embraced the worm compost eco toilets, and the cold nights abated with layers of heavy wool blankets. [...]

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Falling off the Healthy Wagon, and Kids Do Learn Yoga From You!

August 25, 2010

Ok, so all that healthy eating went out the window when we left Montserrat for Buenos Aires. All ritual disappeared and airport food is insane. White bread, ham and cheese. That is what people survive on. And after traveling for a full 16 hours and missing a connecting flight because of weather in Miami and [...]

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The Storytime Yoga Road School of Experiential Learning

August 8, 2010

After eight months of planning, the Storytime Yoga Road School of Experiential Learning has begun. It has several goals: 1)    That my children, ages 10 and 12, learn experientially while traveling to get a global education, learn foreign language, learn about local customs, food supply, geography and history as well as other aspects of the [...]

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