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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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Kids Knitting for Meditation and Concentration

November 3, 2010

Artisan knitting is popular here in Argentina, and women regularly knit gorgeous sweaters, hats, scarves and other accessories.  What’s more, knitting is a flourishing cottage industry, and women regularly make a living at selling their products and classes. Knitting is a valuable skill that Americans and other Westerners can learn and teach to their children [...]

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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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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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Ayurveda for Children with ADD

April 16, 2009

I sent my 8-year-old daughter to my ayurvedic physican yesterday. Instead of drugging her up, I decided to try aryuveda. She is vata pitta, and her vata way out of control, that quintessential ADD symptom. And it’s about proper nutrition that she’s not getting. She’s always been a minimal eater Feeding her brain will help [...]

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Kids Yoga and Storytelling for Anger

March 4, 2009

Yesterday I taught to the upper elementary boys in the after school program. I have been looking at my own anger at my moron ex-husband Justin Chipaman realtor, who has broken several agreements in the divorce settlement, like not paying the mortgage, nor the taxes, nor the insurance, parking tickets, etc. What a loser! So [...]

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Teaching Children to Breathe Correctly

February 6, 2009

In my own life, after crippling depression, anxiety, and a host of other problems, including ADD and ADHD as a child, I’ve realized that I don’t breathe right. Even after years of yoga teaching. That deep breath eludes me. After working on the breath for a while now, I completely see the benefits! I’m so [...]

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Lower Kid’s Anxiety with Low Clutter

January 28, 2009

When we moved last month and I cleaned out my daughter’s room, I was struck with the thought that this looked a lot like my mother’s house. My mother was a schizophrenic. The strangeness of the way my daughter disassembles thing, stuffs shoes into drawers, a random chatter of constant mess and disorganization disturbed me. [...]

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Sydney’s ADD tips

January 27, 2009

OK. It’s official. Me and my daughter are ADD! Wow, a lifetime of me doing yoga and meditation to get my mind focused! It all makes sense. I can remember very well in second grade, just living in a dream world of fantasy. Teacher’s thought there was something wrong with me and put me in [...]

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Calming Children’s Anxiety with Stories and Yoga

January 14, 2009

When I talk with my daughter, a lot of her anxieties come out: kids are staring at her, she doesn’t understand what’s going on in class; she feels left out. I just hold her and let her express her feelings. Then I remind her that those worries are just thoughts, and that we can come [...]

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