I taught English as a Second Language using kamishibai at a public high school in Buenos Aires August 30, along with telling a kamishibai about the atomic bombing of Japan in Spanish. Angellini High School 15 Spanish Literature Teacher Bárbara Jelen invited me. [...]
Feeling our hearts at a Storytime Yoga class in Denver 2007. One of my main motivations in teaching Storytime Yoga Kamishibai for Peace is to help children feel and be in their bodies. As technology does more and more for [...]
Hermann Werner. (1816-1905) The Grandma Effect I’m not a grandma yet, but as I now engage in my third stage of life and look to healthy aging, I’m looking forward to it. I am a grandmother in a way already. [...]
In July of 2009 Shakti Redding of Yoga World Reach asked me to join her at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. It was part of my then Storytime Yoga® for Kids mission to do some seva work. Having had grown up [...]
Storytime Yoga® at Haitian Relief at Lyons Elementary School, Lyons, Colorado 2010. Many play, occupational and psycho therapists have studied with me over the years. Stories have the power to heal. The connection between listener and teller creating relationships and [...]
Dominator culture is passing away and making way for a culture of caring and partnership. What if the stories we've been taught about power, sex, and money are fundamentally flawed? Isn't it time to embrace a more empowering and inclusive [...]
Cadet Paloma Solis in the AFJROTC DeLand High School Parade October, 2015 When my daughter told me last year she wanted to join the AFJROTC for her freshman year in high school, I flipped out. Military! Are you [...]
Psychologist Erich Fromm has a wonderful book called "To Have or To Be." Its essential question is, who are you without what you have? In today's consumer society, consumption covers up feelings of anxiety and alienation. Fame and status give people a false sense [...]
I have posted on the Storytime Yoga® for Kids website about the Colorado Flooding and How you can help me help my hometown of Boulder, Colorado ! OM SHANTI - SERVICE IS JOY.
Holy Wars are erupting all over America! People are dying for their metaphors of the eternal, Joseph Campbell would say. Alternately, let's introduce mythology and science in public school classrooms to discuss yoga science, hear some great world mythology and educate our [...]
