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children’s mental health

How Stories and Yoga Play Therapy Help Kids Become Aware of their Feelings

September 21, 2011

It’s been sheer delight to be back teaching live classes again with the little kids. Every time I put on a Storytime Yoga class or tell a story to one of my own children, I am made aware of the profound effect on kids’ ability to access their feelings and become aware of emotions. This [...]

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Anger, Meditation, The Hulk and Boys

May 19, 2010

Last night I watched the Incredible Hulk with my 12-year-old son. I watch these types of movies from time to time with him for fun, as I do watch girl movies with my daughter, like Hannah Montana (never thought I’d do that one!) It was fun to see shots of original cast member Bill Bixby [...]

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Yoga and a Story for Young Girls’ Self-Esteem

October 27, 2009

Yesterday I taught an afterschool girls club at Emerald Elementary in Broomfield, Colorado. It was the second time I had visited this group of girls, and it was great because the social worker who invited me, Jo-lynn Yoshihara Daly, was a friend from high school. The girls are all Hispanic fourth and fifth grade. I [...]

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Yoga and Stories for Older Kids

September 11, 2009

As I write this, I realize how much time it now takes to parent older children! The days of playful kids whose needs involved making sure they didn’t run out into the street, now evolves into their growing social/emotional needs. And they really do have needs and this is a very important time of their [...]

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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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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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Mental Health for Children Through Yoga and Story

April 4, 2008

Last blog I wrote about peace and character education using yoga and story. This is an extention using yoga and story to include mental and emotional health. Thursday I was in the fourth and second grades again at Creekside Elementary in Boulder. In the fourth grade, we sit family room style with me sitting on [...]

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