Nurturing Love for the Natural World
The average American child now spends over 8 hours in front of a screen each day. She emails, texts, and updates her status incessantly. He can name hundreds of corporate logos, but less than ten native plants. She aspires to have hundreds of online friends, most she...
Adaptations: Yoga Calm for Children Who Have Been Abused & Neglected
Guest post by Laurie Schlosser, MA, LP More than 1.25 million children in the US – 1 in every 58 – were abused or neglected in 2006, the most recent year for which data (PDF) is available. Those of us who work in schools, outpatient clinics, day treatment and...
Adaptations: Yoga Calm for Children on the Autism Spectrum
From the time we began to formalize and integrate the activities that became Yoga Calm, it was important to us to keep the program flexible and adaptable. We wanted to create something that could meet the needs of all students yet be tailored to those of specific...
Community Matters: Yoga Calm Summer Intensives & at ASCA Seattle
It's a little astonishing, how quickly a year passes! Yet here we are, Lynea and I, getting ready for our annual Summer Intensive at beautiful Still Meadow Retreat in Damascus, Oregon - the first of two Intensives we're offering this summer. (The second will be held...
Natural vs. Virtual Worlds
"Serendipity" - the idea of the happy or fortuitous accident - is a wonderful word, inspired by a Persian fairy tale in which three princes from Serendip (the old name for Ceylon, now Sri Lanka) who "were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things...
Win a Free Copy of Yoga Calm’s Kids Teach Yoga: Flying Eagle! (Yoga In My School Giveaway)
We've long admired Donna Freeman's work through her site Yoga In My School - an ever-growing compendium of information and resources on yoga for the classroom. So suffice it to say, we were honored by her review of the debut DVD in our Kids Teach Yoga series, Flying...
Improving Early Literacy – Yoga Calm Helps!
Earlier this spring, we told you about an exciting new study showing the benefits of social-emotional learning programs like Yoga Calm on academic achievement. The very day we posted it, we got an email from Wendy Holley-Boen, a school psychologist here in...
“But I Don’t Wanna!” Tips for Working with Resistant Students
The benefits of yoga poses aren't always apparent to kids. In fact, the poses can sometimes cause frustration, for in asking students to work at holding poses, we’re asking them to start being present in their bodies and to push past boredom and impatience. Hearing...
Boys, Coyotes & Other Wild Creatures
When we announced our latest pilot workshop – Boys, Coyotes & Other Wild Creatures: Healthy Alternatives for Harnessing "Wildness" – we figured there would be a lot of interest, but nothing like the outpouring of enthusiasm we’ve received. Scheduled for May 14 –...
Yoga Calm’s Kids Teach Yoga: Flying Eagle Wins Mom’s Choice Award Gold
Kids love to follow other kids. This was the inspiration for our first DVD for children, Kids Teach Yoga: Flying Eagle, which earlier this month won the Mom’s Choice Award® Gold in Home and Mobile Viewing Category. It's an honor we're extremely proud of, for the Mom's...
Social-Emotional Learning Boosts Academic Achievement
Since we started Yoga Calm in 2000, an impressive body of research has been published on the positive impact of yoga and social-emotional learning on academic performance. It supports what we’ve seen in practice and what we’ve heard from hundreds of educators,...
What Else Is Going on in Wisconsin? Plenty!
With all the political turmoil in Wisconsin these days, it can be easy to overlook what else is happening there, such as the good work being done at the Genesee Lake School, recently featured in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The school was developed to meet the...