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body-centered education

Storytime Yoga for Kids Live: The Twisted Chicken Warm-Up (Los Pollitos Dicen)

November 2, 2011

Use this warm-up with kids using eagle pose, garudasana. I used a fun folk toy I picked up in Mexico to sing the folk song of Los Pollitos Dicen. I asked kids to join in the chant of pio pio pio. I explained the meaning of the Spanish words and most kids had heard this [...]

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Sun Stories and Yoga for Children

July 25, 2011

“The sun, the sun. I salute the sun. I open my heart to everyone. The sun rises, the sun sets. The whole world in my heart rests. Again I arise ready to live, happy to be and ready to give. The sun, the sun. I salute the sun. I open my heart to everyone.” Children [...]

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Storytime Yoga preschool classes start September 13 in St. Croix, USVI

June 17, 2011

Learn and Play the Storytime Yoga Way! Bring your child and sit in the Little Lotus with the Queen of Bohemia, Sydney Solis, for an enchanting Storytime Yoga class to learn yoga, literacy, healthy living and peace skills. at the KaliMa Center, Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands Tuesdays Beginning September 13- November 22 10:30-11:45 [...]

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Kids Yoga February Story: The Girl and the Puma from Argentina

February 22, 2011

I’m excited that this month’s Kids’ Yoga Story of the Month comes from Argentina, and features a brave young woman who defies authority and befriends nature. “The Girl and the Puma” guides yogis on a listening adventure in which they become the hero with their bodies and learn new outcomes to life’s challenges ahead. Join [...]

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Storytime Yoga Children’s Mission in Buenos Aires, Argentina

January 18, 2011

No matter what the socio-economic background, no matter what the race or class, educating and providing health care for all children is a priority for a peaceful and enlightened society. From Thomas Jefferson to Manuel Belgrano, we can all agree – the job of educating the children of the poor is a task for every [...]

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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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