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Yoga and Education

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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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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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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Sydney Solis will be interviewed on Yoga in My School on blog talk radio July 6

July 2, 2011

Join Sydney on Wednesday, June 6 at 9:30 am Mountain Daylight Time on blog talk radio time as she talks with Donna Freeman of Yoga in My School. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/yoga-in-my-school/2011/07/06/kids-yoga-and-the-power-of-storytelling Tune in or call in! Like this post? Pass it on: Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it

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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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Storytime Yoga books now available in Australia and the U.K. through Ingram

June 16, 2011

I’m excited to announce that Storytime Yoga books are available in the U.K. and Australia now through Ingram. They are available to Australian consumers through leading book retailers and library suppliers, including TheNile.com.au, Emporium Books Online, Dennis Jones & Associates, ALS Library Services, James Bennett, and DA Information Services. Ask your local book store to order through [...]

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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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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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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 Between Lectures does Body Learning Good

January 26, 2011

Recently my kids and I  attended a wonderful experiential learning class about plants and fibers at our local botanical garden. The first part of the class consisted of a lecture and slide show of various plants and their fiber uses. Naturally we were sitting or standing for a long time, our heads stuffed with amazing [...]

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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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Between Body and Word – Body-Centered Play Therapy for Children and Adolescents

November 20, 2010

Connecting the word with the body can create powerful connections of body and mind, as I experienced in the workshop “Entre Cuerpo y Palabra,” or “Between Body and Word,” presented by Psychotherapist Silvia Weitzman, Director of the Asociación de Psicoanálisis e Infancias (Association of Childhood Psychoanalysis) at the 9th International Congress on Mental Health and [...]

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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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Storytime Yoga Kids Camp at Kripalu – the closest thing to my own school

July 24, 2010

Words can’t describe the joy I felt while teaching for 9-days straight at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Stockbridge, Massachusetts earlier this month. Well, of course there is the word EXHUSTED, but it’s of the exhilerating kind, where you just were in your bliss the whole time and you are left feeling good [...]

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Body-Centered Summer Fun with Yoga and Story, Naturally

July 7, 2010

For the next nine days I will be at Kripalu presenting the Storytime Yoga kids camp. While native Colorado is having a cold spell in July, we’re in the middle of a record heat wave here on the east coast, my first time beyond New York City. I spent the Fourth of July weekend in [...]

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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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Puppets for Education, Yoga and Delight!

June 13, 2010

El Museo Argentina del Titere in San Telmo in Buenos Aires is a sweet little place. The Bohemian building and intimate theatre packs families into this simple venue. There is an incredible museum of antique puppets from around the world there, exemplifying the forms of shadow, marionette, stick and hand. My inner child delighted in [...]

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Every child learns at his or her own pace

November 11, 2009

Hallelujiah! After years of wondering what was wrong with my daughter and why she wasn’t learning, after thousands of dollars in tutoring expenses and buying coffee at coffee shops so I could work while I waited for her sessions, after countless hours of frustration, fear, worry and desperation, after complete exhaustion as a single mother [...]

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