To Diana – for 14 Years of Yoga. For playing yoga games, listening to yoga music, and doing kids meditations on so many four hour drives to Ottawa. For having a yoga birthday party – because you love yoga (picture link)! For posing for countless yoga pictures. See how yoga can become a part of a child’s life with these remarkable results.
5 Potential Life Saving Summer Safety Tips That Should Not be Ignored
July 8, 2010 By 2 Comments
Yesterday I was saddened by some tragic news at the daycare where I teach yoga. They were grieving three recent deaths in the community. These occurred in two separate incidents outside of the daycare – but all involved drowning. A three year old boy drowned at home when he wandered off and fell in the [...]
Spend Time with Your Kids Amidst the Chaos
June 30, 2010 By 5 Comments
Up close, in the first picture we see a child resting. In this picture we see exactly where all this is happening. This event showed me that we have power over our circumstances. On our own it’s difficult to lie down and relax amidst the chaos, sometimes completely impossible. When we surround ourselves with like-minded [...]
New Start, New Courses, & New York City
June 17, 2010 By 6 Comments
Did you ever notice how the word “news” has “new” in it? I guess its obvious but I noticed it when I started planning the summer. Mostly I think of news as doom and gloom. But when I realize it probably started a long time ago with someone saying, “Hey, what’s NEW?” News is way [...]
Classroom Management: Do you ask kids questions like these?
June 2, 2010 By 10 Comments
When teachers or parents start getting frustrated with children they often resort to asking questions to get back control of the situation. The problem is when these questions aren’t really questions but are criticisms disguised as questions. Questions like these don’t help with classroom management and don’t help the child correct their behavior either. For [...]
Contest: Win “Pure and Simple Yoga” DVD with Eoin Finn
May 27, 2010 By
“Saying you are too stiff to do yoga is like saying you are too dirty to take a shower.” – Eoin Finn Leave a comment to win a copy of Eoin Finn’s DVD “Pure and Simple Yoga”
Not an Ordinary Month
May 17, 2010 By 11 Comments
From April 16 – May 16 I’ve had three extraordinary weekends. It was a great escape from the ordinary. The three pictures below are from three Young Yoga Masters trainings held on three different weekends at three different studios. It was a powerful month with many sincere and wonderful people, the kind of people who [...]
Contest: Win “Once Upon a Pose”
May 4, 2010 By
Once Upon a Pose A Guide to Yoga Adventure Stories for Children by Donna Freeman For this kids yoga book review, Donna sent me two free copies of her new book: Once Upon a Pose: A Guide to Yoga Adventure Stories for Children. One copy I’ve used for my kids yoga classes and one copy [...]
Earth Day and The Earth Element
April 22, 2010 By 3 Comments
Photo from Seven Spirals, A Chakra Sutra for Kids Book Today is Earth Day but we know we want everyday to be earth day! In honour of Mother Earth I’ve three strange and unusual yoga things planned for yoga class today: Earth Yoga: We lie down on the floor and begin jumping all parts of [...]
3 Simple Health Tips for Kids Yoga Teachers
April 18, 2010 By 17 Comments
Recently I’ve been feeling the excitement, perhaps the over-excitement, of life. With so many things on the go I got run down and decided to stop everything for awhile to get back to a healthy state. My Mentor, Tulshi Sen, always said that when things get overwhelming it’s time to stop everything and re-connect with [...]
