Warning: This post is not really about teaching, kids, or yoga – unless you consider yoga to be related to embracing the permission to live your life the way you want to live and not the way you feel you should live – as it applies to kids or adults. Knitting Your Eyebrows Just Stinks I just don’t feel like working. Can anyone out there relate? Haven’t felt like blogging, nor yoga projects, nothing. That’s when I came across my
Read more →Before I get to those questions about kids yoga classroom management and how to start your own yoga blog, here are some kids yoga tips I shared with Lindsey Lewis over at the Joy Yoga blog.She invited me to be a Yoga Insider which is her name for the experienced yogis she interviews. She asked some good questions including my: Top 3 Yoga Practices for Kids and Families At-Work or At-Home Stress Busters To see the answers and read the
Read more →Here are some beautiful and uplifting music suggestions I have used for relaxation or background music in classes with the Sun Salutation. The Sun Shines on Everyone (It doesn’t make choices) on the Feeling Good Today Children’s Yoga Music CD by Snatam Kaur (listen to the song here) Sun Salutation – Dance for the Sun by Kira Willey (listen here) (I downloaded this Kira Willey’s CD from itunes and have listened to it outside of my yoga class – catchy
Read more →Want some more great meditations to ponder about the light and the sun? Another thing my teacher, Tulshi Sen, reminded us: Even if a room is dark for one hundred years, it doesn’t take a hundred years to light it. A candle will fill it instantly. He also said, When we look up into the sky on a dark night we can see tons of stars. During the day, all those stars are still there. The sun is so powerful,
Read more →Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night when it was completely dark? Did you grope around in the dark trying to find the light switch, arms flailing around for protection, inching along trying to find the light without bumping into anything? Afraid for your shins? Stubbing your toe? Running your hand all over the wall feeling for the switch, only to discover you are on the wrong wall? When you finally do find the switch and
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