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Storytime Yoga and Mythic Yoga for Youth at the Pine Ridge Reservation

July 26, 2009

I am very excited to go to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota with Yoga World Reach. We leave Tuesday and teach Wednesday. We will also be doing a radio show about yoga and trauma. My whole life I have wanted to visit a reservation and get up close with Native Americans. And now [...]

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Stories and Yoga for Young Girls’ Self-Confidence

April 20, 2009

I just did a class for fourth grade, at-risk, Lantino girls and the school social worker had asked me to build their self esteem during the class. So I started out with my puppet Lalita doing Spanish and intros to set the stage and center the space. We passed around a little heart stone, as [...]

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A New Kind of Children’s Yoga Class

June 5, 2008

Well, my first children’s yoga class at the Storytime Yoga studio in Boulder went well! We have elementary kids of all ages. I was happy to have them in my space created just for children and families. I used the Shipwrecked Sailor from Egypt about courage and seeing the good that comes out of the [...]

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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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The Grateful Crane

October 3, 2007

At Tuesday’s storytelling class we met in the library and sat in the cushiony area for a while, as the kids talked about how they used story this week. A second-grade girl brought in her drawing from when she heard me telling the Native American story of Jumping Mouse last week. She also made up [...]

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Children are Hungry for Yoga and Stories

March 20, 2007

Namaste! I just returned from a wonderful trip to Philadephia for a Storytime Yoga teacher training I gave. I am always impressed with the wonderful talent and dedication of the teachers out there and was grateful to all who attended. In our discussion, participants told me how they tried out the stories and yoga in [...]

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