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Bones and Body Awareness
On Halloween night we are sure to see many kids wearing skeleton costumes in pursuit of treats. Therefore, October is the perfect time of year to teach kids a little about their bodies, especially with regard to their skeletal system. Bones help give our bodies...
Halloween Yoga Lesson Plan
*These activities could be easily adapted to a virtual class** It's a Kidding Around Yoga Halloween this year! To open the class, I have the kids lay face down on their mats in Crocodile pose with their foreheads resting on their hands. When everyone is laying quietly...
One Love: Yoga and Bob Marley’s Reggae Music
“One love, one heart, let’s get together and feel alright” -Bob Marley Chances are you recognize those words to be the lyrics from a Bob Marley song, One Love. Even if you don’t consider yourself a fan of the late Bob Marley you have at some point in your life heard...
Mini-Mindful Moments for Kids
Admit it. You've asked a child to "calm down" or "pay attention" at least once in your lifetime. Maybe you've bribed one of your own kids to just sit still for a minute. What you are really asking for (begging for?) is for them to be mindful, to focus on the moment...
Teaching Children to Uplift & Support One Another through Yoga
Yoga teaches us to uplift our human family and ourselves. It teaches us to be at peace with ourselves, so we can be peaceful to one another. Making the world a better place might not be an easy task, but our yoga philosophies, practices and teaching methods do have...
The Science of Storytelling in Yoga
Since cave drawings first made an appearance some 27,000 years ago, humans’ brains have developed around storytelling. Telling stories makes up to 65% of our conversations. We are built to hear, remember and share stories. According to Jon Thomas’ The Art of...
Upstairs and Downstairs Neighbors in Your Brain
A useful way to help children visualize how their brain works is to describe the brain’s layers as upstairs and downstairs neighbors. Calm, Happy, and Creative all live upstairs while Bossy, Alerting, and Scared live downstairs. In this model, the upstairs neighbors...
Mindful Eating and Exercise
Should I finish that last piece of pizza? It’s just going to sit staring at me in that forlorn way. And what about the ice cream screaming out from the freezer? Surely, it needs my attention. Such a dilemma. Decisions to be made every day. They seem so ordinary, even...
Children’s Yoga and Mental Health
In this time of uncertainty, anxiety, seclusion, and fear, we all need to find ways to improve our mental health. For centuries, yoga has given practitioners the tools live in a healthy way. Now is a perfect time to find an online yoga class (you can do a search on...
Fun in the Sun with Kids Yoga
It’s Summertime. When we think about summer, we think about long days of sunshine. Sun, kids and yoga make a perfect trifecta of happiness. Kids love the warmer weather. Sunshine and warmth invite children to explore, be adventurous, and tune into their creative...
Laughter Yoga is No Joke
I’m sure by now most everyone has heard of Laughter Yoga, especially if you are in the mindfulness community. Let’s explore where, when, why, and how this came to be. A search on the World Wide Web points to Dr. Madan Kataria as the originator of a laughter club in...
Virtual Kids Yoga: Staying motivated as an instructor & inspiring your yogis to show up
Around the globe, life came to a halting stop in February and March. Depending on where you live, you’ve been in lockdown, social distancing and most likely teaching your kids yoga classes virtually for at least three months. In the beginning, there was some...
Compassion Through Yoga
maitri-karuna-mudita-upekshanam such-dukkha-punya-apunya-visharyanam bhavanatash-citta-prasadanam The projection of friendliness, compassion, gladness, and equanimity towards objects - be they joyful, sorrowful, meritorious, or demeritorious - bring about the...
Sharing Yoga with Girl Scouts
Being a Girl Scout is not just about selling cookies, although this is one delicious perk of being a Girl Scout. Being a Girl Scout is about creating friendships, memories, learning valuable life skills, and becoming a strong, courageous leader in your community....
Explaining Vrittis (Thoughts) to Children
Our minds are like a 6 lane highway. We have thoughts constantly moving along throughout our day. Some of these thoughts move along at a crawl, some speed along the shoulder almost unnoticed, others pileup with thoughts they should never even come in contact with. But...
