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Teach Your Children to Cook – Spicy Chai

March 17, 2010

Recently, an Australian cooking star blasted parents and said if they didn’t teach their kids to cook they’d have a life of obesity and illness. Cooking is an essential skill that connects one to the food source and the earth. It brings awareness to what one puts in the body and teaches nutrition. Kids should [...]

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Wrapping up the Residency

March 12, 2010

Well. I must say, I had a wonderful time at the residency and that I SURVIVED. Now, I can’t say I survived because I didn’t enjoy it. I loved every minute with the kids. It just seems that I was unaware that this residency was AS the GYM TEACHER! SO, six, 45-minute classes a day, [...]

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Second Day

March 9, 2010

My second day at the artist in residency went well. I was not so tired and adjusted well. It was the same older kids first half of the day, and the younger the second. I’ve realized that what people need to do most for a successful children’s yoga class is to be flexible. That is [...]

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Body-Centered Education with Storytime Yoga

March 8, 2010

My son regularly tells me how bored he is in school, sitting for six hours a day in class. “We don’t even go outside for gym,” he told me this morning. I remember how excited he was when he attended Montessori school from preschool through the second grade. His nickname was “Busy Beaver” becuase he [...]

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Storytime Yoga: Body-Centered Education – News article

March 4, 2010

children’s yoga, yoga for kids, kids yoga, body-centered education. Storytime Yoga, Sydney Solis, education reform, kinesthetic learning, ADD, ADHD, storytelling, education, tree stories, arts in education.

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Ayurveda: Heal yourself, heal your children

February 3, 2010

My students have asked me to outline my ayurvedic regiment. I started going to Nita Desai, M.D. at East West Integrated Medicine in Boulder, Colorado four and a half years ago. I was having a pain in my intestine, which was misdiagnosed, rather impersonally, by some western physicians, as a kidney stone. I also wanted [...]

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Awake Children

February 3, 2010

Yesterday I taught three classes of children between the ages of 5 and 12 at the Augustana Early Learning Center in Denver. I am like a traveling shaman, with my bag of mystery. Gathering the children around is definitely a ritual. I’m this special visitor with this big bag in which puppets, musical instruments, maps [...]

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True Love Story for Valentine’s Day

January 31, 2010

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Hope for Haiti: Bringing out Children’s natural capacity for compassion

January 24, 2010

Children’s yoga

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Ayurveda for Children with ADHD

January 20, 2010

I took my children back to the ayurvedic physician. My first attempt back in April diagnosed them, and it was a bit hard to get them used to certain herbs and foods and routines. I have been following Ayurveda for nearly four years, implementing slow changes and breaking old habits. I’m tri-dosha, and vata is [...]

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The Musician and the Pirates – Japanese

January 6, 2010

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Steamed Artichoke Hearts and Raven

January 5, 2010

I find every day a little way to incorporate yoga in my family’s life. Although my children aren’t into doing asana with me anymore except for a few ones here and there at the spur of the moment, I do find ways to slip in yoga philosophy and ayurveda into their lives. I taught my [...]

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Boys and Stories for the Heart Chakra

January 3, 2010

My son is going to be 12 next month and he came to me the other day and said, “Look at my chest!” Indeed, he is getting bigger and turning into a man. His body is changing and he is aware of it. He gets his own hair cream and body wash just for guys. [...]

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Meditation on Polenta: Cooking with your children

December 8, 2009

My son had always refused to try polenta, until his social studies teacher had them try it during the Aztec unit. How did a civilization survive on corn? was the question. So he was gung ho to make polenta from scratch. As we are cooking more and more from home using whole foods for nutrition, [...]

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A New Beginning

December 7, 2009

It has been a challenging few months. The effects of my husband’s death nearly seven years ago continues to rear its head. As my young children have grown older, I see the effects in their learning disabilities, anger and upset, as well as in myself, realizing the full effect of post traumatic stress disorder. Indeed, [...]

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Householder Yogini – Special Ed and the Eyes

October 8, 2009

Just yesterday while snuggling with my daughter she looked up at me and said, “I can see your third eye,” and she pointed right in the middle of my forehead. I had never spoken to her about that before until she said that, and I explained what the third eye was. I swear she has [...]

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Return to Pine Ridge Reservation

October 6, 2009

I’m thrilled that I will be returning to the Pine Ridge Reservation Oct. 11-12 with Yoga World Reach. I make the trip up to South Dakota in reverence, to enter the world of the Lakota people and come face to face with the shadow of our country’s history. Despite the high incidence of poverty, diabetes, [...]

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The Householder Yogini: Focus on Humanity Not Coins for Caesar

October 2, 2009

I remember a friend of my father’s; He was a concentration camp survivor, yet he hesitated to have his wife call an ambulance when he felt chest pains for fear of the expense. He died while his wife was driving him to the hospital. Late one night my daughter had a fever and she had [...]

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The Origin of the Prairie Rose — Native American – Lakota

September 25, 2009

Last July I had the honor of going to the Pine Ridge Reservation of the Lakota People in South Dakota with Yoga World Reach. It was such an amazing experience, as blogged about previously. In researching their culture, cosmology and folk lore, I came across this wonderful story. The Origin of the Prairie Rose — [...]

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The Power of stories and a mythic life

September 14, 2009

Children’s yoga, ki

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