by Jim & Lynea Gillen | Jul 8, 2018 | Families, Mindfulness
For many of us, summertime is travel time. Yet whether it’s a day at the beach, a weekend of camping, a week of sightseeing, or a longer journey abroad, it can be easy to get so wrapped up in the busy-ness of making trips happen or documenting every moment for...
by Jim & Lynea Gillen | Jun 3, 2018 | Yoga Calm
There are many paths that lead people to Yoga Calm. For Pati Richards, it began with running marathons. “I wasn’t interested in yoga at all,” she says, “but everything I read said to do yoga to improve your running, so I took it up.” So when Yoga Calm training was...
by Jim & Lynea Gillen | May 6, 2018 | K-12 Education
When high school English teacher Brittni Darras learned that one of her students had tried to kill herself, she was grief-stricken. Darras had known her as “a friendly, intelligent, beautiful, driven, young woman.” As Reader’s Digest recounted, Darras felt helpless...
by Jim & Lynea Gillen | Apr 1, 2018 | Child development
Think of Monterey, California, and you may think of its spectacular aquarium or Cannery Row or its rocky, cypress peppered shoreline, the squeal of sea otters and bark of the sea lions sounding over the crashing surf. But if you were lucky enough to grow up in the...
by Jim & Lynea Gillen | Mar 16, 2018 | Trauma, Yoga Calm
Through the years, we have been blessed to work with so many amazing teachers, counselors, social workers, therapists, and other helping professionals who dedicate themselves to helping children and families thrive in an ever more challenging world. One of those is...
