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Bucking Back to School Stress

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...

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Back-to-School Time Is Great Yoga Time

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...

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The Art of Living: Mindfulness

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...

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How to Nurture Learning: Environment + Method

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...

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Igniting Children’s Interest, Moving the World

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,...

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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...

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Emotional Regulation: Five Breath Success

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...

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Yoga, Mediterranean Syle

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...

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Developing Self-Regulation

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...

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Valentine’s Day Advice

Valentine’s Day Advice

Recently, a group of five fifth grade boys in one of my Yoga Calm groups said they had something “really important to talk with me about.” It had “something to do about” their feelings. Over the course of the year, these boys had gradually opened up about all sorts of...

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