Posted in Animals, yoga, kids, children on Jul 23rd, 2007
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I saw this great post on the Daily Om today (www.dailyom.com) about ducks. What fun things to talk about while in duck pose…
“ July 23, 2007
Symbols Of Versatility
Ducks
If you are lucky enough to live in a part of the world that is also a home to ducks, you will no doubt be familiar with the image of their cute feathery bottoms sticking up in the air as their heads disappear under the surface of the water. Perhaps you’ve even taken a moment to wonder what they see in their underwater world, and if they will resurface with a fish or a water bug in their beaks. As we observe them, we see that ducks are denizens of three worlds—the world of air, the world of water, and the world of earth. As such, they have adapted themselves to be able to swim, fly, and walk, and they seek […]
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Posted in yoga, kids, children, breathing on Jul 12th, 2007
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The other day I was in a hurry and didn’t have time to plan out a full, creative, and exciting lesson plan. As I ran out the door, I grabbed a bag of multi-colored pom-poms that I recently bought at the craft store. I pulled them out at class- and they created quite a hit! I had so many of them that each child got to pick out their favorite color (they don’t usually get to do this if I don’t have enough to make everyone happy, so getting to make this choice alone was quite a hit!). Then we put our pom-poms on the ground and blew on them to make them roll on the floor. They were so excited at how they could get their pom-pom to move. I sometimes get so wrapped up in lesson planning, that I forget how much kids enjoy the simple things: a […]
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Posted in yoga, kids, children, breathing on Jul 12th, 2007
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The other day I was in a hurry and didn’t have time to plan out a full, creative, and exciting lesson plan. As I ran out the door, I grabbed a bag of multi-colored pom-poms that I recently bought at the craft store. I pulled them out at class- and they created quite a hit! I had so many of them that each child got to pick out their favorite color (they don’t usually get to do this if I don’t have enough to make everyone happy, so getting to make this choice alone was quite a hit!). Then we put our pom-poms on the ground and blew on them to make them roll on the floor. They were so excited at how they could get their pom-pom to move. I sometimes get so wrapped up in lesson planning, that I forget how much kids enjoy the simple things: a […]
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Posted in Music, yoga, kids, children, books on Jul 12th, 2007
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Yesterday I taught a fun class at a summer camp at a Montessori school. The theme was the jungle, and we had such fun romping around like animals. We read Rumble in the Jungle by Giles Andreae. This is a great children’s book about all the different animals in the jungle. We became Elephants, Chimpanzees, Zebras, Giraffes, and more. Lion was especially fun since we listened to the Lion Sleeps Tonight song.
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Posted in Music, yoga, kids, children, books on Jul 12th, 2007
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Yesterday I taught a fun class at a summer camp at a Montessori school. The theme was the jungle, and we had such fun romping around like animals. We read Rumble in the Jungle by Giles Andreae. This is a great children’s book about all the different animals in the jungle. We became Elephants, Chimpanzees, Zebras, Giraffes, and more. Lion was especially fun since we listened to the Lion Sleeps Tonight song.
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Posted in yoga, children on Jun 16th, 2007
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I taught a class recently that was a make-up class to compensate for a class that I couldn’t teach a few weeks ago. The kids kept hearing about the “make-up” class, and one of the 5 year old girls asked me in the middle of yoga, “When are we going to put on make-up?”
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Posted in yoga, children on Jun 16th, 2007
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I taught a class recently that was a make-up class to compensate for a class that I couldn’t teach a few weeks ago. The kids kept hearing about the “make-up” class, and one of the 5 year old girls asked me in the middle of yoga, “When are we going to put on make-up?”
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Posted in yoga, children, flowers on Jun 2nd, 2007
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Today I taught a FUN class with flowers… It was in honor of my friend Corey who moved to Canada this week- she loves flowers, so the theme of today was flowers and gardening.
I brought a Gerbera Daisy in for each child in the class, and we used them for lots of fun things…. We used them for meditating (”notice the color, the shape of the petals, the smell, the beauty…”). We used them for stretching (”lift your flower up in the sky, now reach to one side and the other with your flower.”) We used them for balancing (”focus on your flower on the floor”). We also talked about watering flowers, and how they get droopy if you don’t water them- then we talked about how our bodies get “droopy” if we don’t give them water too.
W e also planted some seeds (Child’s Pose) in our garden and grew […]
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Posted in yoga, children, feet on May 15th, 2007
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Hello,
I recently taught a foot yoga class at Radiance Yoga. We did lots of yoga for our feet- waving hi with our feet, wiggling our toes, spreading our toes, picking things up with our toes. We also did a Walking Meditation around the room paying attention to our feet.
Some questions I had for the kids included:
What are you feet scared of? “Anything slimey” , “Cold water”
What is something nice that you do for your feet? “Clip my toenails” and “Stretch them”
After all this focus on our feet, we did some standing poses and flows that relied on our feet.
I wish I had remembered to give foot massages! Next time!
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Posted in yoga, children, feet on May 15th, 2007
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Hello,
I recently taught a foot yoga class at Radiance Yoga. We did lots of yoga for our feet- waving hi with our feet, wiggling our toes, spreading our toes, picking things up with our toes. We also did a Walking Meditation around the room paying attention to our feet.
Some questions I had for the kids included:
What are you feet scared of? “Anything slimey” , “Cold water”
What is something nice that you do for your feet? “Clip my toenails” and “Stretch them”
After all this focus on our feet, we did some standing poses and flows that relied on our feet.
I wish I had remembered to give foot massages! Next time!
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