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 [...]
Yoga and stories help kids heal. It's been sheer delight to be back teaching live classes again with the little kids. Every time I put on a Storytime Yoga class or tell a story to one of my own [...]
Last night I watched the Incredible Hulk with my 12-year-old son. I watch these types of movies from time to time with him for fun, as I do watch girl movies with my daughter, like Hannah Montana (never thought I'd do that [...]
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 [...]
Something happens by about 5th grade, when kids become conscious and start changing into adolescents. They wake up and say, "My family is screwy! Life sucks!" That kind of thing. Kids need to feel safe and still supported while they start to [...]
When we moved last month and I cleaned out my daughter's room, I was struck with the thought that this looked a lot like my mother's house. My mother was a schizophrenic. The strangeness of the way my daughter disassembles thing, stuffs [...]
When I talk with my daughter, a lot of her anxieties come out: kids are staring at her, she doesn't understand what's going on in class; she feels left out. I just hold her and let her express her feelings. Then I [...]
Last blog I wrote about peace and character education using yoga and story. This is an extention using yoga and story to include mental and emotional health. Thursday I was in the fourth and second grades again at Creekside Elementary in Boulder. [...]
