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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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Going to See My Valentine Warm-Up: Estes Park Public Library

February 5, 2010

It was a lot of fun teaching to the kids at an after-school Storytime Yoga program at the Estes Park Public Library in Colorado. I had the kids shake out their bodies first, after all, they have been at school or something all day. Need a little bit of what I call, “Controlled Chaos.” Then [...]

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Resisting Ritalin and Experiential Learning Through The Body

April 25, 2009

Despite my efforts of ayurveda to help my ADD child (and myself), teacher friends, psychologist friends, and even my daughter’s tutor, all said, “That won’t help. It’s night and day between what happens to kids when they take drugs to focus.” So I reluctantly went to my doctor to see what could be done. Luckily, [...]

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Children and Ayurveda

April 22, 2009

So I have been implementing an ayurvedic diet in my children’s diet with mixed success. We cleaned out the cupboards and shopped for all the good things on the list for my daughter’s vata imbalance my and son’s pitta imbalance. My son squirmed while I put drops in his eyes to cool down the heat [...]

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