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 [...]
Kids Yoga for Disabilities
March 8, 2010 By 12 Comments
First off, take a look at this fun video of two Canadians, Rick Mercer (comedian/host) and Rick Hanson (Man in Motion hero/educator) blowing away all ideas of what one can and cannot do when one has a disability: Pretty Amazing, Eh! This Friday marks the beginning of the Paralympic Games in Vancouver. It’s another event [...]
The Word I DON’T Say In Kids Yoga, Do You?
February 23, 2010 By 9 Comments
A couple years ago I wrote about how I accidentally swore in a Kids Yoga Class. In my defense, it wasn’t a swear word when I was a kid! But this post about Yoga Music got me thinking about another word that has become TABOO in many kids yoga classes. The word? The word is: [...]
Chocolate Covered Swiss Chard
February 14, 2010 By 3 Comments
Mmmmmm, Chocolate! Oh so euphoric, bittersweet goodness that melts on the tongue. Swiss Chard, my tender green friend. Proudly named the Valedictorian of Vegetables. Valentine’s Day is the time of Romance and sometimes surprising coupling. Here’s a follow up on my last post about the Romance between the head and the heart and the coming [...]
Kids Meditation – 7 Year Old Yoga Sensation on Fox News
February 2, 2010 By 15 Comments
The Kundalini Kid! Check out this News Story from Fox News: Seven Year Old Sensation The seven year old boy in this news story has grown up around yoga. Obviously he’s watched many a yoga class over the years from his birth to “almost eight years old.” But the story also reveals what [...]
What Else Kid’s Want – A Get Acquainted Game
December 27, 2009 By 7 Comments
A Yoga Game: What Do You Want Under the Tree? I’m extending Christmas just a little longer to play a game with you. Imagine if for Christmas we could ask for presents, but we could also ask for other things, things that are less tangible. What if we could ask for a virtue or a [...]
Imagination: Creates and Destroys
November 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Sand Sculptures at the Canadian National Exhibition, 2009 One day a bunch of us, adults and kids, were hanging out for a bit after yoga class. As the kids played I divulged that soon I’ll be lying on the beach for a week’s holidays. I mimed building sand castles and swimming in the ocean and [...]
Get Kids Active with Donkey Kicks
September 22, 2009 By 7 Comments
Donkey Kicks are a Kid’s Favorite Thanks to everyone who has been sending in questions! Here’s part one of a question that came in from a yogi in Toronto who’s just starting teaching kids: I was teaching an age 7 – 12 age group at a daycare and I had this one boy (who will [...]
Do You Believe in Yourself Enough? Complimentary Tele-Class Tonight and Link
August 27, 2009 By 3 Comments
Complimentary Tele-Seminar: Raise Your Belief Level This topic is crucial for us as teachers. Most of the questions I get from kids yoga teachers are from those not sure how to manage a class or certain situations in a kids yoga class. Often teachers resort to blaming the child and writing them off as “Un-teachable.” [...]
Overheard in the Hallway
July 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
T.G.I.F. Today is Tuesday, so I think it may be a good day to tell this story – Friday’s far enough away so hopefully we won’t get influenced by it. I’ve been holding it in for a while trying to decide if it is worth writing about. One Friday morning I was walking by the [...]
