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Kids Yoga Philosophy: This Halloween Teach Children About Death Through Story

October 28, 2011

In Ernest Becker’s Pulitzer prize-winning book, The Denial of Death, he writes that what young people need most in their lives is the chance to face death, be courageous and be a hero. True heroism and courage is about facing death, yet our Western culture is replete with heroes that merely shoot hoops or behave [...]

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Heartbreak and Rejection: Your Stories Help Ease the Pain of your Teen’s

September 19, 2011

My son called me to be picked up early after school because he said he didn’t have any homework and that he wasn’t feeling well. In the car I asked him about the physical symptoms, and he said he was “all right.” It was his sister who quietly used her psychic abilities to say that [...]

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The Voice of Lady Truth – a folktale retold by Sydney Solis

April 28, 2011

Once upon a time there was a man who had everything in life. But he still felt he lacked one thing. He decided one day to leave everything and go out and find Truth. He searched the lands far and wide. He asked a townsperson if he had seen Truth, “Oh, Truth will be a [...]

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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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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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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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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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Mythic Yoga: The Story in the Body

July 23, 2010

Yoga and story have the power to transform, and as parents, teachers and caregivers, our transformation in turn affects others around us, especially children. For four days, participants spent time in Boulder and Rollinsville, Colorado listening to the Story in the Body. Using ancient Hindu myth, we explored the somatic realms to listen deeply and [...]

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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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Body-Centered Education with Storytime Yoga

March 8, 2010

My son regularly tells me how bored he is in school, sitting for six hours a day in class. “We don’t even go outside for gym,” he told me this morning. I remember how excited he was when he attended Montessori school from preschool through the second grade. His nickname was “Busy Beaver” becuase he [...]

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The Musician and the Pirates – Japanese

January 6, 2010

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Steamed Artichoke Hearts and Raven

January 5, 2010

I find every day a little way to incorporate yoga in my family’s life. Although my children aren’t into doing asana with me anymore except for a few ones here and there at the spur of the moment, I do find ways to slip in yoga philosophy and ayurveda into their lives. I taught my [...]

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A New Beginning

December 7, 2009

It has been a challenging few months. The effects of my husband’s death nearly seven years ago continues to rear its head. As my young children have grown older, I see the effects in their learning disabilities, anger and upset, as well as in myself, realizing the full effect of post traumatic stress disorder. Indeed, [...]

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Every child learns at his or her own pace

November 11, 2009

Hallelujiah! After years of wondering what was wrong with my daughter and why she wasn’t learning, after thousands of dollars in tutoring expenses and buying coffee at coffee shops so I could work while I waited for her sessions, after countless hours of frustration, fear, worry and desperation, after complete exhaustion as a single mother [...]

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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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The Origin of the Prairie Rose — Native American – Lakota

September 25, 2009

Last July I had the honor of going to the Pine Ridge Reservation of the Lakota People in South Dakota with Yoga World Reach. It was such an amazing experience, as blogged about previously. In researching their culture, cosmology and folk lore, I came across this wonderful story. The Origin of the Prairie Rose — [...]

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Hindu Deities and Mythology

July 24, 2009

Well, the kids and I had a nice vacation in Telluride this week. Despite all the natural elements around them they prefer to hang out by the pool and just relax. Can’t blame them and I don’t push them into anything anymore. No projections! But I drove 90 mph back home, stopping only twice in [...]

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