Yoga & Exercise as Medicine
It looks like schools aren’t the only place where exercise is getting the short shrift these days. According to new research out of Oregon State University, it’s largely absent from the medical school curriculum, too. Just over half of US medical schools offer no...
Native American Mindfulness: Reciprocity
Several years back, a writer for one of our local papers complained about school teachers getting graduate credit to teach yoga to their students. These courses, she mocked, should be listed in the Education Department catalog next to basket weaving. My thought?...
Exercising the Body = Exercising the Brain
Can you imagine a school where kids show up dressed for PE? Where physical exercise is just as important as academics – and academic scores go up as a result? That's the ideal world brain scientist John Medina described to the 3000 plus gathered for the kick-off...
Teaching Yoga to Kids: Why the Teacher’s Emotions Matter
One concept we talk about quite a bit in our Yoga Calm trainings is the power of modeling behavior – whether it's the teacher’s modeling for the students or students modeling for each other. It’s one reason why mindfulness is such a critical skill to cultivate in...
Let’s Move…for Health, Behavior & Academics
The report from our good friend's preschool was disturbing. Naptime was creating behavior problems for her daughter, and the school was now considering sending her home each afternoon. We knew she wasn't much of a napper, but after some additional sleuthing, we found...
Let’s Move…for Health, Behavior & Academics
The report from our good friend's preschool was disturbing.buy Glucophage generic bloinfobuy.com over the counter Naptime was creating behavior problems for her daughter, and the school was now considering sending her home each afternoon. We knew she wasn't much of a...
Mindfulness Making a Difference
As Lynea and I savor our experiences at last weekend's mindfulness and compassion conference in San Diego, we can't help but be amazed about how much this movement has grown in the last 15 years since we first started offering Yoga Calm in the public schools. And...
Yoga Calm At Bridging the Hearts & Minds of Youth Conference, San Diego
We’ve just arrived in San Diego for our return visit to this amazing conference, where educators. clinicians, researchers and administrators from around the country come together to share ideas, inspiration and knowledge of using mindfulness and compassion to help...
Yoga Hits the Super Bowl: 5 Tips for Teaching Boys
Mrs. Gillen, if everyone did yoga, the world would be pink! This comment from an 11-year-old boy was typical of those Lynea heard from the boys in her elementary school’s behavior classroom when she first brought in yoga 15 years ago. And considering the dominant...
A Somatic Approach Toward a Bully-Free Future
Research shows that children who are bullied often carry a posture and a story of victimization. Trauma, low self-esteem, learning disabilities and obesity also can set up a child for ridicule and rejection. As we’ve noted before, such children begin to walk and talk...
High-Stakes Tests, Kids’ Soaring Stress – and a Lesson Plan for Creating Calm & Focus Instead
Not even two weeks into the new year, and already, testing season is underway in many school districts around the country. And so is the backlash against standardized testing, which – according to a recent Marketplace feature on NPR – is only expected to keep on...
A Nation of the Sleep-Deprived – & How to Turn Things Around
“It’s time to get up and make pancakes, Grandpa!” It was 5:30 in the morning. Still, I thought it might be good to get up a little earlier than usual for my four year old granddaughter’s and my favorite ritual – though neither of us had got much sleep the night...