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Raven Brings the Light – Celebrate the Season with Children, Story, Yoga and Art

December 1, 2011

The sacred time is upon us. The stories call us within. The Inuit story of Raven Brings the Light takes us on a journey to align our minds, hearts and bodies with nature and the season. Join me in bringing storytelling back to the world. Bring back our imagination and lead the people to light [...]

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The Golden Princess: Create Original Fairy Tales to Combine with Yoga and Help Kids Cope with Stress

November 4, 2011

Early one morning my daughter came into my room complaining of a serious stomachache and “nervousness.” She said she felt like throwing up. After talking with her for a while, she revealed the feeling of pressure. Having a learning disability in addition to dyslexia, she is frequently behind in school and gets confused. She complained [...]

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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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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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Kids Yoga February Story: The Girl and the Puma from Argentina

February 22, 2011

I’m excited that this month’s Kids’ Yoga Story of the Month comes from Argentina, and features a brave young woman who defies authority and befriends nature. “The Girl and the Puma” guides yogis on a listening adventure in which they become the hero with their bodies and learn new outcomes to life’s challenges ahead. Join [...]

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Storytime Yoga Children’s Mission in Buenos Aires, Argentina

January 18, 2011

No matter what the socio-economic background, no matter what the race or class, educating and providing health care for all children is a priority for a peaceful and enlightened society. From Thomas Jefferson to Manuel Belgrano, we can all agree – the job of educating the children of the poor is a task for every [...]

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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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Simple Routine for a Yoga-Home School Morning

November 4, 2010

A family yoga practice lets you to be sure that your children are being taught the values that are important to you -  health, spirituality and deep family connection. Starting a family yoga practice in the morning can be beneficial way to start your day with the kids. At our yoga-home school here in Buenos [...]

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Teaching Children Yoga Philosophy Via Sims

October 27, 2010

There is an opportunity to teach yoga philosophy to children at every turn, and I teach it to my own by observing them in every day life and giving them stories and philosophy to guide them based on their experiences and issues. I got rid of the television years ago, but then the Internet came [...]

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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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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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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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Ayurveda: Heal yourself, heal your children

February 3, 2010

My students have asked me to outline my ayurvedic regiment. I started going to Nita Desai, M.D. at East West Integrated Medicine in Boulder, Colorado four and a half years ago. I was having a pain in my intestine, which was misdiagnosed, rather impersonally, by some western physicians, as a kidney stone. I also wanted [...]

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Householder Yogini – Special Ed and the Eyes

October 8, 2009

Just yesterday while snuggling with my daughter she looked up at me and said, “I can see your third eye,” and she pointed right in the middle of my forehead. I had never spoken to her about that before until she said that, and I explained what the third eye was. I swear she has [...]

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The Power of stories and a mythic life

September 14, 2009

Children’s yoga, ki

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Yoga and Stories for Older Kids

September 11, 2009

As I write this, I realize how much time it now takes to parent older children! The days of playful kids whose needs involved making sure they didn’t run out into the street, now evolves into their growing social/emotional needs. And they really do have needs and this is a very important time of their [...]

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