Picture by GangaSunshine Worm, Fly, & Bee Thinking Audio Story Below with Tulshi Sen As all of us who work with children know – stress and anxiety are not only for those with bills to pay and families to feed. Anxiety and Acting Out in Class Last week in my kids’ yoga class one of [...]
Yoga for Boys – Does Bribery Work or is it Silly?
April 9, 2009 By 3 Comments
Making a Silly Face in Yoga (2002) Last week began another 9 week Kids Yoga Series at the community centre. One of the women in my adult yoga class had told/warned me she was going to register her son for the series. He’s a seven year old, full of energy, and terribly interested in video [...]
Are You a Positron or a Negatron?
March 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Negatron – drawing by Will Carrick(Me after my first kids yoga class) Updates: At the end of this post find out about the upcoming lecture at the Yoga Show in Toronto with Tulshi Sen on How to Start Your Own Profitable Yoga Pilates Business. Also the winner of the contest. Does Your Vibration Make you [...]
Can Kids Handle the News?
January 18, 2009 By 1 Comment
An Emergency Landing in New York’s Hudson River – NY Times I can barely handle the news – so why talk about the news with kids? But last Friday everyone was talking about the miracle landing of the Plane in the Hudson River. At the daycare the teacher had the newspaper pictures spread across the [...]
Poverty: Who’s got the Midas Syndrome?
October 15, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Kids, Money, Success, and YogaToday is Blog Action Day 2008 on the topic of poverty and when teaching kids yoga it relates to an important topic to a lot of kids – money. So many kids I teach think that having money is success and that if they just had money then all their problems [...]
Children’s Yoga & Research
September 18, 2008 By Leave a Comment
40 Years of YogaA Beautiful celebration happened last weekend in Toronto. We celebrated the 40th year of Kundalini Yoga in Toronto, marking the day that Yogi Bhajan (Master of Kundalini Yoga) arrived in Toronto from India. There was a day long celebration with many different teachers offering classes and workshops and a concert in the [...]
Beware the Tweens in Daycares
July 9, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Tweens and Daycare Teaching Yoga in Daycares is a great way for kids to discover yoga. You can have short (30 minute) classes with all the different age groups in the school. Personally, at first I found the most challenging of these to be the tweens. Yoga with tweens (aged around 10 – 12 years [...]
Getting Kids Attention
June 10, 2008 By Leave a Comment
The Main IngredientGetting the attention of kids can be hard at times. You go into a classroom or studio and the kids would rather talk to each other than listen to the teacher. Or maybe they sit at home playing video games, not even answering, let alone stopping the game to do yoga with you. [...]
Yoga means Fun, Health and Laughter for Kids
April 6, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Wanna hear a joke? What did the police officer say to the yogi who was meditating? Jokes are fun for kids and adults yoga – even when they are groaners. The point of joking? Don’t take life so seriously. In fact one of the best ways to feel Unity is to just have fun. Laughing [...]
The Price of Classroom Management
March 30, 2008 By 1 Comment
Finding the Light When I first started teaching over 10 years ago, I was surprised to realize that one of the most challenging things about children’s classes is managing the group. Now I know that this is a key skill required to work with kids. My teacher always quotes a great Roman, Cicero, “The price [...]
