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Children’s Yoga

Mom, What does the Christmas Tree Mean?

December 24, 2010

Questions. They are music to my ears, and my favorite way to teach. So when my son recently asked me what the meaning of a Christmas Tree was, it sparked that fantastic opportunity to teach yoga. “Everlasting life. The evergreen is always green; it never dies. It’s just like the divine within you; it never [...]

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Happy Diwali-ween!! The Joy of Making Costumes!

November 5, 2010

I love ritual. As an American who does not belong to a church, finding rituals and ways for my children and I to find meaning in life, connect to the environment and harmonize with the universe is important. When there is no Guru, you do the best you can! Ritual in Latin mean, repetio materi [...]

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Basic Ayurvedic Cooking for Kids

October 27, 2010

We are on a cooking rampage in Argentina, and attempting to adapt the local diet to ayurveda. Although my daughter is vata, my son pitta, and I am tri-dosha, we are working on the simple basics of ayurveda in every meal we eat here. The entire city of Buenos Aires was shut down today because [...]

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Don’t Just Let Kids Sit and Study, Strike a Yoga Pose!

October 18, 2010

My daughter and I were working on her Oak Meadow home school English literature curriculum together. We read a folktale about a little tree that wanted to be special. So an old man carved its wood into a lovely harp, which all the towns people came out to hear. The lesson was about plot and [...]

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Yoga Home Schooling

September 21, 2010

We started our Yoga Homeschooling! It’s been going well these past few weeks. Yoga home school has a regular curriculum, yoga asana and philosophy curriculum as well as yoga home economics, such as cooking healthy, ayurvedic food and using ayurvedic herbs and vitamins. It also emphasizes sustainability and contributing to the household community with mindfulness [...]

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Walking Meditation and Yoga on the Streets of Buenos Aires

September 2, 2010

After 10 days of moving around, we have finally landed at an apartment in the Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires. It was good to be in one place and unpack, as the stress of packing and repacking children was getting to me. We went to the supermercado again, only half a block away on foot. [...]

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Stories and Metaphors of the Eternal to Explain Yoga Philosophy to Children

August 30, 2010

Things are never as they seem. Opportunities to teach yoga philosophy to children abound! We are back in Buenos Aires after a rather interesting experience at the Nuevo Vrindavana Eco Yoga Park in Argentina. At first we openly embraced the worm compost eco toilets, and the cold nights abated with layers of heavy wool blankets. [...]

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The Storytime Yoga Children’s Mission at the Montserrat Public Library

August 19, 2010

When traveling, one never knows what to expect! I have learned that on my first leg of the Storytime Yoga Children’s Mission here in Montserrat. The public library is very tiny and has some books, a decent kids section, and a large Bible section. Turns out my contact I had for the library had quit! [...]

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The Storytime Yoga Road School of Experiential Learning

August 8, 2010

After eight months of planning, the Storytime Yoga Road School of Experiential Learning has begun. It has several goals: 1)    That my children, ages 10 and 12, learn experientially while traveling to get a global education, learn foreign language, learn about local customs, food supply, geography and history as well as other aspects of the [...]

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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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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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Puppets for Education, Yoga and Delight!

June 13, 2010

El Museo Argentina del Titere in San Telmo in Buenos Aires is a sweet little place. The Bohemian building and intimate theatre packs families into this simple venue. There is an incredible museum of antique puppets from around the world there, exemplifying the forms of shadow, marionette, stick and hand. My inner child delighted in [...]

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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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The Golden Princess

May 5, 2010

The Golden Princess I found it fitting that after I hung up from our LOYS call and talked about creating stories for children going through difficulty, my daughter needed to talk. She was being picked on at school, or told she was “dark-skinned” or her clothes were rags, or kids didn’t listen to her. Naturally [...]

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Buried Moon: Yoga and Stories for Children in Difficult Times

April 28, 2010

Whether its change in our lives on and inner or outer level or changes in the world, difficult times happen. Children need tools to deal with these changes. May’s League of Yogic Storyteller’s session features Buried Moon: Yoga and Stories for Children in Difficult Times. This English Story uses the rich imagery of the moon [...]

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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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Storytime Yoga Siestas – Relax with yoga and storytelling after school!

April 16, 2010

I love teaching at Creekside Elementary in Boulder.  I love the children. It’s a rich, diverse school and they have an incredible garden growing in the courtyard just outside the library. We have Spanish-speaking kids, English-Speakers, Chinese, and a girl knew Danish! What fun! I have been teaching there again after school programs, Storytime Yoga [...]

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Fire and the Spring Cleanse – April League of Yogic Storytellers

March 31, 2010

In this month’s LOYS, we are on the heels of exploring tree images, stories and yoga, and now look to fire, using the Hindu story of Agni, subscribing to the fact that we have a relationship to these elements, which provoke powerful meaning and connections within. It is precisely this lack of meaning and connection [...]

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The Decline of Culture in the West: Giving Youth Something to Do

March 25, 2010

In today’s New York Times, I read how youth in Philadelphia are organizing in “flash mobs,” texting each other and congregating in an area to wreak havoc and violence. Experts cite budget cuts at libraries and after school programs as well as severe cuts in anti-violence campaigns.  People say there is nothing for youth to [...]

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Teach Your Children to Cook – Spicy Chai

March 17, 2010

Recently, an Australian cooking star blasted parents and said if they didn’t teach their kids to cook they’d have a life of obesity and illness. Cooking is an essential skill that connects one to the food source and the earth. It brings awareness to what one puts in the body and teaches nutrition. Kids should [...]

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