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...
Bullying & the Language of the Body
A wonderful anecdote from senior yoga teacher Patricia Walden recently caught my eye in a post at Yoga Journal. She recalled a statement BKS Iyengar made to her when she struggled with depression: "If you open your armpits, you'll never get depressed." She was in her...
Bones! (And 3 Tips to Help Your Kids Develop Healthy Ones)
One concept we explored a lot in our recent Yoga for Seniors courses is how yoga can improve bone health. That’s because exercise strengthens not only muscles but bones. A regular, properly designed program may in fact help prevent the falls and fall-related fractures...
From the Archives: 3 Activities to Start the School Year Right
As a new school year gets underway, we re-post these tips from a couple years back to help you get the year off to a positive start... Parents and teachers know how important establishing routines is for healthy child development, but the shift from summer fun to...
9 Tips for Helping Kids Deal with Events Like the Troutdale School Shooting
Within a day of last week’s shooting at Reynolds High School in Troutdale – just outside of Portland here and where some of Lynea’s colleagues work – several particular posts about it began cropping up on Facebook a lot. One was especially sad and sobering: Though...
Less Screen-Time = Healthier Kids & More Family Fun!
You hear a lot about the problems that come from kids spending too much time fixated on screens – obesity, poor and insufficient sleep, behavioral issues and all the rest. What you don’t hear so much is evidence of the benefits from guiding kids’ interactions with...