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Between Body and Word – Body-Centered Play Therapy for Children and Adolescents

November 20, 2010

Connecting the word with the body can create powerful connections of body and mind, as I experienced in the workshop “Entre Cuerpo y Palabra,” or “Between Body and Word,” presented by Psychotherapist Silvia Weitzman, Director of the Asociación de Psicoanálisis e Infancias (Association of Childhood Psychoanalysis) at the 9th International Congress on Mental Health and [...]

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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  for Mythic Yoga, listening to the Story in the Body. Using ancient Hindu myth, we explored the somatic realms to [...]

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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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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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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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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 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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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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Mythic Yoga: Vishnu’s Dream

July 25, 2009

I spent three hours suspending time and space this afternoon at Samadhi Yoga where I taught teacher trainees about Hindu myths, psychology and yoga. I spoke in images and found what kinds of responses the trainees had from experiencing those images, carried through the symbol of sound and words. It’s the conveyance of and the [...]

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