10 Tips for Better Sleep
sean dreilinger/Flickr In our book Yoga Calm for Children we write: When we rest, the body heals and the mind and body integrate experiences. Rest allows us to reflect on the day and notice the effects of our activities on our emotions, mind, and body. In rest,...
Bucking Back to School Stress
Children are so perceptive, so often aware of things that we "grownups" may not be tuned into. They know when something is wrong. They may not be able to say what it is or why it is, but they pick up on our attitudes, feelings and values. It’s one of the ways they...
Back-to-School Time Is Great Yoga Time
Summertime is important to teachers with nearly three months off to recover from the school year and renew yourself. Some pursue personal and professional enrichment activities. Others take up summer teaching, whether by choice or necessity. Many will travel or just...
The Art of Living: Mindfulness
Italy and food: two words that are synonymous for anyone who has been here. The Italians love their food - not just the act of eating but food as a metaphor for life. We see it everywhere here in Casperia, where we are conducting our first international Yoga...
How to Nurture Learning: Environment + Method
It never ceases to amaze us, the many talented and passionate educators we meet each year during our Summer Intensive. They come from all over – Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Michigan, Minnesota, Washington and Oregon – yet all share a similar commitment to...
Blending Breath Work and Social/Emotional Skills-Building
Upon completing our Integrated Approach to Wellness 1 workshop, Debi Doyle, a school counselor in Mukilteo, Washington, wrote to us about how she's been applying Yoga Calm in her work with kids: Lately, I have been focusing on breath work with my students, trying to...
Igniting Children’s Interest, Moving the World
by Amy Halloran-Steiner, Certified Yoga Calm Instructor Recently, our family camped on the bank of Oregon’s Metolius River, on a second annual event there with two other families and a total of six children under age four. I did plenty of yoga with them,...
Yoga Calm Develops Children into Compassionate Leaders
Yoga Calm can help develop children into leaders through teaching yoga. Here's a wonderful video of one of Lynea's students who is now leading Yoga Calm classes. Haley is a compassionate and creative teacher who is already creating guided stories with...
Emotional Regulation: Five Breath Success
“Mrs. Gillen!” exclaimed a fifth grade boy, running up to me as I arrived at school one day this past week. “I have to tell you what happened!” This student has struggled with attention difficulties yet just recently moved from the behavior classroom to regular...
Yoga, Mediterranean Syle
Italy! The name conjures up Mediterranean images of rolling hills carpeted with vineyards, ancient architecture, art and culture, fashion, great food and wine – and an art of living all too easily forgotten in our fast-paced world. Indeed, the Mediterranean is the...
Developing Self-Regulation
In our work with children, we are often reminded of just how important it is to learn the skill of self-regulation – especially for children with impulse control weaknesses. As Peter Levine powerfully illustrated at a recent workshop we attended, impulse control is a...
Getting Kids Out of Their Heads, Into Their Bodies
For a recent Yoga Calm workshop, school counselor Bonnie Cannon wrote an insightful commentary on her developing awareness of yoga as self-study and how this may benefit the children she works with. We asked if we could share her good words on our blog. We were happy...