Marketing Children’s Yoga and Building a Class
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 [...]
Online Storytime Yoga Training Nov. 4. The Yoga of Story
Register today for The Yoga of Story, a 2-hour teacher training in the basics of using the oral tradition to teach peace, health and literacy. Learn the power of the image and spoken word as you find your voice as a storyteller. [...]
Kamishibai At Home – Inspiring Kids to Make and Tell Their Own Stories
Malia Ferrer cuenta Kamishibai en casa a su nietos. I didn’t grow up with extended family around. I grew up in one of the first boxy subdivisions carved out of the cornfields of East Boulder, Colorado. There were no buses [...]
Formación de Facilitadores: Voz Narrativa— Find Your Storyteller Voice in Uruguay
I’m delighted to announce the workshop Voz Narrativa to be held in Spanish at the Luciérnaga Universitaria in the beautiful countryside of Soriano, Uruguay July 23-24, 2022. Join me, Storytime Yoga Founder Sydney Solis; Educator, Yoga Teacher and Publisher Malia Ferrer; Storyteller [...]
Training Teachers to Become Storytellers for Education and Yoga
I attended a day of Malia Ferrer’s ongoing kids yoga teacher training during our Montevideo weekend. I assisted with a storytelling component and presented how to use images and kamishibai in kids yoga classes or in the school classroom, library or home [...]
Storytime Yoga Kamishibai for Peace in Cambodia
Open Book Libraries in Cambodia Sydney Solis outside Open Book Library in Phenom Phen, Cambodia. With Catherine Cousins. I met the amazing Catherine Cousins the first time I attended the International Kamishibai Association’s (IKAJA) Kamishibai for Peace seminar in Tokyo [...]
Storytime Yoga Kamishibai for Peace: Educating Kids Via Images
The Power of the Image in Education “The soul speaks in an image.”— Aristotle “Thinking in pictures precedes thinking in words.”— Immanuel Kant “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”—Albert Einstein “The storyteller around the fire— the original Virtual Reality!” — Sydney Solis [...]
Faith in Stories: Using Storytime Yoga to Teach Peace Through Interfaith Storytelling
Peace is possible when we know the other to be ourself. When we sit down and tell stories to each other, when we listen to others' stories, we find out that we are really one and the same. For we have the [...]
Sleepytime Yoga™ – Yoga Nidra for Kids with Storytelling of the Cracked Pot
Storytime Yoga's twin is Sleepytime Yoga, using creative relaxation techniques and modified yoga nidra for kids to help kids relax, refresh and renew. Bedtime stories take a whole new twist when we listen to a story in its entirety and also relax [...]
Ashes From Gold – Las Cenizas Por El Oro – A Folktale from Mexico for Use in Kids Yoga Classes
Mexican flying pole dancers in Puerto Vallarta, 2010 I wrote this script based on a Mexican folktale for my son's second grade Montessori School of Golden, Colorado classroom in 2006. Get kids to TELL stories in their entirety for [...]
