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Help Children Participate in Easter Rather than Consume It

April 20, 2011

Easter is a big deal here in the Virgin Islands. Schools will be closed for Good Friday and Easter Monday. Restaurants are not allowed to sell alcohol. I’m not one for forced religious observation on anybody, however, taking the time to connect personally to the mystery of the cosmos and to do it among community [...]

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Storytime Yoga Story-of-the-Month Club Keeps Kids Fit and Smart

February 10, 2011

An old man discovers how to make withered trees bloom again. A lone girl survives in the jungle after a mother puma feeds her.  A golden fish appears and grants a man his every wish. These fantastic stories from around the world, and more, arrive each month to members of Storytime Yoga’s Story-of-the-Month Club. I [...]

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Kids Yoga Home School Activities in St. Croix – and Your Own Town, too

January 23, 2011

It was getting rather hot in Buenos Aires, and we needed a respite from the big city life. So now we have moved on to St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands for the next leg of our Storytime Yoga Road School of Experiential Learning. St. Croix is the largest of the U.S. Virgin Islands, [...]

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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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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 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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Global education, yoga and the search for sustainable living

June 15, 2010

Nostaligic record store in Buenos Aires. I have come to Argentina in search of places to bring my children for a global education and sustainable living. As I see my home Colorado landscape and cities needing to be renamed “Suburbistan,” with its soulless architecture, monotony of consumerism and gutting of public schools, I started to [...]

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Celebrating the Season in Community

December 13, 2007

It had snowed heavily all day and I was so worried that people wouldn’t come to our school’s first Community Wellness Night, Tuesday Dec. 11.  Roads were slick, but schools had been open. The day before it was sunny and we were expecting 64 adults and 77 children. But we had a fantastic turn out [...]

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