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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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