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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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Yoga for Kindergardeners

May 7, 2010

I teach after-school yoga at Creekside Elementary school and most are Kindergarten and a few first grade. It’s a tough group, but workable. They have a hard time getting into a circle on their own, distracted by the pillows. We played the strong and steady mountain pose, in which they stood in tadasana, and I [...]

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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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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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