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Creating Story Warm-Ups for Children’s Yoga

July 28, 2010

For the last few days here at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York, where I have been giving the Storytime Yoga Children’s Yoga Teacher Training, we have been graced by a trickster woodchuck. His presence is welcome, as he romps through the grass, dashes into the foliage and nibbles on plants and even wanders [...]

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Infusing yoga with literacy for Kindergartners

April 21, 2010

In Storytime Yoga after school programs, I work around snack by making up a story for us to use in yoga. Children who are in their listening lotus postures have the privilege of being selected to pull a puppet out of my magic bag. What is it? Monkey, the kids say. How do we spell [...]

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Wrapping up the Residency

March 12, 2010

Well. I must say, I had a wonderful time at the residency and that I SURVIVED. Now, I can’t say I survived because I didn’t enjoy it. I loved every minute with the kids. It just seems that I was unaware that this residency was AS the GYM TEACHER! SO, six, 45-minute classes a day, [...]

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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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