by Jim & Lynea Gillen | Mar 3, 2017 | Mental Health
Emotional loss is part of the human condition and, though painful, is part of our growth into caring, compassionate adults. Grief is the process through which we heal. Many of us grow up without learning how to grieve in healthy ways, how to let go of the pain while...
by Jim & Lynea Gillen | Jan 21, 2017 | Mindfulness, Social-Emotional Learning
Through recent months, we’ve seen evidence of a lot more bullying going on, much of it attributed to the angry, polarizing 2016 US election. Recent research out of the University of Wisconsin seems to reinforce that impression. If we look at the 2013 data, about 12...
by Jim & Lynea Gillen | Nov 23, 2016 | Social-Emotional Learning
When I worked as a counselor in a behavior classroom I would meet with the students every morning. Often the students would often come in with sad or frightening things on their mind. It was difficult for them to focus on school when their minds and bodies were full...
by Jim & Lynea Gillen | Oct 29, 2016 | Class Stories, K-12 Education, Teachers Featured
One of the most gratifying things we hear from teachers who bring Yoga Calm into their classrooms is how it changes their own lives – personally and professionally – as well as their students’. They say they find it revitalizing their teaching and rekindling the fire...
by Jim & Lynea Gillen | Oct 23, 2016 | Families
Storytelling, as we saw a couple weeks back, can fire the imagination and open up new worlds to children. It does this whether you make up stories on the fly, as you might with a guided relaxation, or simply read to children from books. It’s the exchange between...
