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Sydney Solis

The Queen of Bohemia Occupies Wall Street from her Own Home by Growing a Garden

November 30, 2011

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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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Storytime Yoga for Kids Live: The Skeletons’ Ball – folk song and movement for Halloween fun

October 29, 2011

Bring folk music to life by adding a chant and movement! I translated and retold this classic Latin American folk tale of Chumba la Cachumba as The Skeletons’ Ball for our October Storytime Yoga Kids Club feature. This is the live version told at my daughter’s school for their Halloween party! Subscribe to the Storytime [...]

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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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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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Storytime Yoga Kripalu Kids Camp will feature Sun Stories, Connecting to Solar Power!

April 28, 2011

Kids will learn and play the Storytime Yoga way July 22-24 at The Kripalu Kids Camp. The Sun is our theme, and we’ll be telling sun stories, learning fun facts about the sun, doing lots of sun salutations, learning the Gayatri Mantra, making Sun Prints for an art project, and swimming in the lake under [...]

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The Treasure is in the Earth: Kids Yoga and Storytelling for Earth Day 2011

April 7, 2011

Educate children to treat Mother Earth with reverence and respect this Earth Day April 22 with Environmental Storytelling and Yoga. It’s crucial that we reach our youth to forge green attitudes about consumption and waste to ensure a bright future for the planet and humanity. I will be putting on Storytime Yoga in the Garden at [...]

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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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Going to See My Valentine Warm-Up: Estes Park Public Library

February 5, 2010

It was a lot of fun teaching to the kids at an after-school Storytime Yoga program at the Estes Park Public Library in Colorado. I had the kids shake out their bodies first, after all, they have been at school or something all day. Need a little bit of what I call, “Controlled Chaos.” Then [...]

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Boys and Stories for the Heart Chakra

January 3, 2010

My son is going to be 12 next month and he came to me the other day and said, “Look at my chest!” Indeed, he is getting bigger and turning into a man. His body is changing and he is aware of it. He gets his own hair cream and body wash just for guys. [...]

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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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Flat feet, medical care and back to school yoga philosophy for the Householder Yogini

August 20, 2009

Well, I gotta tell you. And I think I have told you before, that if I didn’t do meditation and yoga or have a spiritual life I’d be stark raving mad by now. As a single widowed mother of two children running her own business, back to school can be insane. Somehow in the last [...]

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Family Yoga with the Wooden Sword folktale

August 17, 2009

The Wooden Sword is a great story for today’s times. It’s the story of a man who keeps losing his job becuase of a powerful King, but he always has faith in God and the present moment, so everything turns out all right. I used this Jewish story from Afghanistan for the Boulder Jewish Community [...]

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