In-Person Yoga Calm Courses Return with Celebrate the Human Spirit!
Say “yoga,” and you might instantly picture the stereotypical thin white woman in Downward Dog or Cobra or Warrior I, or maybe just breathing deeply, face turned toward the sun. Mindful movement is what seems to define yoga. But it’s not the foundation. Where the...
Yoga Calm Fundamentals: Receiving Your Students’ Gratitude
With the end of the traditional school year fast approaching, it can be a crazy-busy time for teachers and students alike, with a million things to wrap up before summer break. We're all feeling the pressure and counting down the days. One thing that can be easy to...
When Bad Things Happen: 9 Tips for Talking with Children about Tragedies
What do you say to a child when yet another act of wild violence dominates the news? How do we help them make sense of the strange and troubling scenes, and so many people saying “never again” even as nothing much seems to change? Working Toward a Positive, Strong,...
Our Digital Devices Are Powerful. So Is Unplugging from Time to Time
It’s one of our very favorite quotes from writer Anne Lamott: We all need to disconnect from time to time, to be fully present to ourselves and to others. It’s a simple form of self-care. It’s even more important for kids, especially when that unplugged time is given...
What Would Be Possible If We Nurtured Children’s Intuitive Love of Nature?
It’s not really springtime here in Portland until the cherry trees burst into bloom. And right now, they are gorgeous. Their sudden color, their delicate scent occasionally wafting on a breeze, their promise of warmer days to come - is it any wonder that cherry...
We Care About Kids’ Physical, Emotional, & Social Well-Being. What About Their Digital Well-Being?
Two new studies have added to the mountain of evidence for the negative impact of social media on kids’ health and well-being. One, in Psychology of Popular Media, showed that limiting social media led emotionally distressed kids to feel better about their appearance...
Physical Exercise : Social Exercise
Three years ago, Lynea was blogging about the importance of loose social ties. Within weeks, the stay-at-home orders began - and went on much longer than any of us could have imagined. Then, as now, we had to smile at the irony of this, even as it put into focus just...
Yoga Calm Fundamentals: Integrating Physical Yoga with Social/Emotional Learning (SEL)
Over the 15 years we’ve been blogging, it’s been a joy every time we’ve been able to share the experiences of teachers, counselors, and other helping professionals using Yoga Calm in their work with children. Their observations and reflections offer such great models...
Yoga Calm Fundamentals: Using Rewards
It's hard to believe that this year will mark the 15th anniversary of this blog! Recognizing that fact, we thought it would be fun to reach way back into the archives and share one of our earliest posts. We settled on this one from November 2008, which has not lost a...
Helping Our Children Find Their Authentic Super Powers
Many years ago, I attended a wonderful workshop on inner power led by a Native American Elder from Nevada. Within the interconnectedness of life, he told us, each being has its own power and everything is equally important. “The power of the bee is different from the...
Social Media & the Youth Mental Health Crisis
Most of us understand that there’s no one single cause of the current youth mental health crisis. Still, it was hard not to cheer a little inside over the news that Seattle Public Schools has filed suit against Facebook, TikTok, and other big social media companies,...
The Yoga Calm Blog Year in Review, 2022
Before another word, Happy New Year! We hope that 2023 brings you all the good things you seek - and carries us all closer to a future that is kinder, more compassionate, understanding, forgiving, and just. That hope in no way obliterates the tremendous amount of good...