Special Podcast on The Power of the Image

May 6, 2011

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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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This Mother’s Day, Identify with The Divine Mother that You Are

May 2, 2011

One of my favorite books is Buffalo Bird Woman’s Garden, or Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians: An Indian Interpretation by Gilbert Livingstone Wilson, Ph.D.. Published by the University of Minnesota in 1917, it accounts the agricultural methods of the Hidatsa tribe in North Dakota through Buffalo Bird Woman, also known as Maxi’diwiac.   What I [...]

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Storytime Yoga Kripalu Kids Camp will feature Sun Stories, Connecting to Solar Power!

April 28, 2011

Kids will learn and play the Storytime Yoga way July 22-24 at The Kripalu Kids Camp. The Sun is our theme, and we’ll be telling sun stories, learning fun facts about the sun, doing lots of sun salutations, learning the Gayatri Mantra, making Sun Prints for an art project, and swimming in the lake under [...]

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The Voice of Lady Truth – a folktale retold by Sydney Solis

April 28, 2011

Once upon a time there was a man who had everything in life. But he still felt he lacked one thing. He decided one day to leave everything and go out and find Truth. He searched the lands far and wide. He asked a townsperson if he had seen Truth,  “Oh, Truth will be a [...]

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Brother Simple – Teaching Children Mantra in this Month’s Story-of-The-Month Club

April 21, 2011

Recently a student asked me for a story that she wanted to include in a meditation that she was recording for military personal so that they could reconnect to their inner child. Thinking soldier, the 12th century story of Brother Simple from the Golden Legend came to mind. The main character is a soldier who [...]

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Help Children Participate in Easter Rather than Consume It

April 20, 2011

Easter is a big deal here in the Virgin Islands. Schools will be closed for Good Friday and Easter Monday. Restaurants are not allowed to sell alcohol. I’m not one for forced religious observation on anybody, however, taking the time to connect personally to the mystery of the cosmos and to do it among community [...]

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Stories for Mother’s Day

April 19, 2011

Passing along some wonderful stories and posts from a great storyteller lady. This from Jackie Baldwin of Story Lovers http://www.story-lovers.com/listsmothersdaystories.html A few gems from it 1) This is a Portuguese folktale, perfect for Mother’s Day. It is found in Folk tales from Portugal by Alan S. Feinstein. The title of the tale is “The Remarkable Woman” [...]

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Special Podcast on the Power of the Word!

April 13, 2011

The Power of the Word Like this post? Pass it on: Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it

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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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The World Needs Yogic Storytellers Now More Than Ever

April 4, 2011

It is as if the cosmic clock is tick, tick, ticking down the Kali Yug bit by bit. The multiple tragedies of the Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear threat compound the Black Swans of war in Libya, uprisings in the Arab world, corruption, greed and the economic spiral into third-world status around the globe. Indeed, [...]

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Kids Yoga: Labyrinth Walking for Children and Teens

March 28, 2011

  Under the full super moon this March my children and I walked the Mt. Washington labyrinth here in St. Croix. It was a gorgeous Caribbean night, and people of all faiths – Muslims, Wiccans, Catholics – the people of St. Croix, – turned out among the tiki lights and palm trees to take a [...]

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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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Japanese Tsunami Folk tale to Tell in This Time of Tragedy

March 14, 2011

When I first started telling stories, I learned this Japanese folk tale when I was a member of  Spellbinders volunteer storytellers. An old man tended his rice fields high up on a mountain. One day, he saw the sea recede and the great wave coming for the shore. He did not know what to do, [...]

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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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Ayurvedic Cooking with Kids Using Staples

March 4, 2011

One thing I really learned to do while my family lived in Argentina was to cook from scratch with staples. Here in St. Croix there are the American-style supermarkets and warehouse-style shopping with hoards of imported, frozen stuff, but I shake my head at my kids and say, no way! That’s junk, it’s expensive, and [...]

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The Truth About Family Yoga

March 2, 2011

We are all moved into our new home in St. Croix and I enrolled kids in a school. While I loved doing home school with them during our travels in Argentina and when we first arrived here in St. Croix, I know my limits. I also know that my kids are getting older, and that [...]

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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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