Find out what doesn’t work BEFORE you are with the kids. These three poses require more time and energy to teach to kids. Knowing which poses they are can enhance your kids yoga classes.
To Diana – for 14 Years of Yoga
July 22, 2010 By 7 Comments
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Yoga for Boys Preview and Upcoming Events
March 18, 2010 By 6 Comments
Here’s the inside scoop on some upcoming Young Yoga Masters events including a sneak peak of the new pictures for Yoga for Boys: Yoga Man vs. The Stressor project. The April Kids Yoga Teacher Training is almost half full, so if you’ve been thinking of registering – do it soon. Plus, I’ll be at a [...]
Kids Yoga Teacher Training
January 5, 2010 By 1 Comment
This photo was from my last kids yoga teacher training course – can you believe it was 4 months ago! That was a fun class – each group is a different mix, but I don’t think I’ve ever taught a training with so many yoga teachers in it. In this class we went deeply into [...]
Medical study – Yoga Helps Some Kids with ADHD
November 11, 2009 By 3 Comments
This week I’m taking a sixty hour Yoga Teacher Training called Vitality and Stress, learning all different aspects and qualities of stress. My favorite so far has been examining our “stress monster” personality. Sounds like something that could work in kids yoga – don’t you think? Here’s an intersting article and video on how yoga helps relieve stress, [...]
