Every winter season brings a plethora of illnesses, and blogs about prevention to go with it! Most, however, do not talk about how preventing the spread of colds and flu has a lot to do with a specific yoga philosophy! What? Believe it or not, trying our best to live...
Meditation may be a new trendy buzzword, but the practice of settling your mind has developed over many centuries in several philosophical and religious traditions. Let's take a walk down Meditation Memory Lane! C.5000-3500 BCE: Wall art showing people seated in...
I am a scavenger - I love to find the treasures within the junk. I think of myself as an educational MacGyver. Give me some random object and I'll figure out how to teach with it. This habit (gift?) started when I was a student-teacher, finishing up my Elementary...
Thanksgiving is a tradition many of us today recognize as beginning in 1621 at Plymouth with the Native Americans and the Pilgrims after the first harvest in the “New World". It was actually more of a harvest festival and they gave credit for all the bounty and...
Thanksgiving is just around the corner! Get ready to eat, watch the parades on television, and eat some more. This year, why not start your festivities with a kid-led yoga session centered around the concept of thankfulness, or gratefulness? Directly tied to...
The yoga ideal of non-attachment... Can you even fathom how you would approach this concept in a kids’ yoga class? Non-attachment is called aparigraha in The Yoga Sutras (say that 3 times fast). It’s the fifth Yama, aka code of self-restraint. This code includes being...
Indudablemente el reto más grande en la vida consiste en educar y mantener los pequeños seres humanos a nuestro alrededor. La responsabilidad moral de tener hijos es algo que me impacto hace muchos años y mucho antes de convertirme en madre. Debo admitir que a pesar...
What is the goal of Yoga? Why do people practice it? Why do YOU practice? To get a fit body? To fit in with the “cool” crowd? To relieve the stress of everyday life? Yoga at it's essence, is a practice in peace. By engaging in each of the eight limbs of Yoga, one can...
Our family took a quick camping trip to Mueller State Park near Colorado Springs, CO this July. We have a travel trailer, so it was more like glamping if I’m honest. About half way through our short trip, I noticed we were practicing some yoga concepts. Let me...
Typically when you mention yoga, people picture someone bending and stretching into shapes that compare to a pretzel. Stretching and bending is a fun part of a children's class, however, from the time your child takes their first yoga class you will learn that yoga is...
I wanted to write about the path of yoga that we call karma in depth and with ideas for your class. My starting point initially was going to address how the modern world has replaced the idea of servanthood originally intended by the Hindu religion with a simplified...
Be warned! If you send your kids to yoga... · They may come home shockingly calm, and ready to do their homework That’s right, after an hour in a specially designed yoga program, your child will have jiggled and giggled their...
Muchos de nosotros trabajamos en escuelas, ludotecas, etc, y aunque nuestras clases son muy divertidas y llenas de risas y actividad nunca debemos olvidar que en el yoga para niños también esta la parte de Karma Yoga. A veces creemos que ya porque alguien realiza esta...
The art and therapy of mandalas has reached huge popularity. But what exactly is the meaning and purpose of the beautiful, geometric images we find ourselves drawn to decorate with color? Merriam-Webster provides these two definitions of mandala: 1. a Hindu or...
Yog. Or yog not. There is no try. There is so much yoga embedded into the world of Star Wars. The Force is akin to Om, Jedi principles match the eight yogic limbs, and the shapes of droids happily lend themselves to poses perfect for little ones. From mindfulness to...
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