A look at teaching color to young children Picture it: an early childhood classroom decorated and ready for the new school year. What is often seen? Color coded organization, possibly shapes in different colors with either the shape name or color name on it, brightly...
Making An Impact with Kids Yoga
It’s not every day you get to make a difference, especially in a community in desperate need of Loving -Kindness. On May 2, 2015, I had the divine pleasure of being an integral part of the first Yoga festival to hit the historic Midtown area of St. Petersburg,...
Kids’ Pranayama (with a Jewish Twist)
* Kidding Around Yoga teaches Yoga to children of all cultures, races, faiths and backgrounds. Yoga Yeladim is Kidding Around Yoga with a Jewish twist and provides Yoga methods for people who work with children in the Jewish community.* Deep breathing exercises can...
Don’t Hold Your Breath! Pranayama for Kids
Breathing. It seems so easy. Breathe in. Breathe out. We’ve been breathing every moment of every day since birth. How hard can it be? We may call that instinctual movement of air “breathing”, but true breathing, conscious breathing does more than keep us alive....
Kids’ Yoga Grows Leaders
This past summer I had the opportunity to teach sixty pre-teen girls and boys Yoga two hours a day for one week. Camp is held on a university campus and so we met in the huge gym for a shoes-on, no mats adventure. The first day was full of establishing norms, the...
Wintertime Yoga
All kids love snow (especially those here in sunny Florida who wish it would snow all winter long, even if they go on a winter vacation!) to take Advantage of their enthusiasm for snow, I like to do a wintertime yoga class each winter. I went online to find images of...


