A Lifeboat and a Compass: Yoga and Stories to Navigate Rough Waters in Life. Use of yoga philosophy, body centered psychotherapy and play therapy techniques for mental health and suicide prevention for youth and their families.
By Sydney Solis Once you’ve decided upon which classes you want to teach and offer to children, the next step is to schedule and get students to come. A marketing effort will do a lot to draw them [...]
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. [...]
New Beginnings in Storytime Yoga for Kids I’m on a yoga farm about an hour outside of Mercedes, Uruguay as I write this. After a wonderful silent retreat here and deep spiritual experience of renewal, I’m staying [...]
Today is my late little sister Jean E.R. Straub's birthday. I am publishing her graphic novel she made for her Master's in Library Science portfolio at Emporia State University. My Aunt is a Hurricane - Explaining Manic-Depressive Illness to A 10-Year-Old Girl [...]
Fairy tales have many uses for children's development and play is one of them! Tell stories! Act them out with yoga! Storytime Yoga® for Kids! I am a big fan of Bruno Bettelheim and his books, my favorite being "The Uses [...]
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 [...]
Sydney Solis Storytime Yoga for Kids storytellling at Lighthouse Children's Museum DeLand, 2014 Making up chants and rhymes for your kids yoga classes is easy, especially if your imagination has been tuned by hearing lots of folktales already with Storytime Yoga! [...]
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Be the Voice to Stop Suicide Sponsored by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, there are numerous links and resources available to get the world out about suicide and save [...]
Children, teens and adults alike need stories and myths that activate the archetypical imagination to help them access their inner lives for wholeness. Wisdom, original artwork by Sydney Solis as part of the Personal Mythology Series. See more of Sydney's [...]
