by Jim Gillen | Apr 23, 2017 | Environmental Education, Mindfulness
Each spring, when the flowers and leaves are coming out and nature is once again showing its beautiful resiliency, I have my RYT-200 students go on a Mindful Walk through our garden. It’s a nice break from learning yoga anatomy and yoga teaching techniques, and it...
by Jim & Lynea Gillen | Apr 16, 2016 | Environmental Education, Mindfulness
As we approach Earth Day 2016, we find our thoughts going back to this previous post on recognizing and affirming our connectedness with the natural world, which we’ve updated slightly for the occasion… Several years back, a writer for one of our local papers...
by Jim Gillen | Mar 28, 2016 | Environmental Education
Two hundred feet up in a tree. The winds were blowing so hard, she felt she would surely meet her demise, but Julia Butterfly Hill finally relaxed her tight grip on the tree she had named Luna so that she could move with its swaying. She had lived in that tree for...
by Jim Gillen | Jul 25, 2015 | Environmental Education
We love Yoga Calm Summer Camp week, which just wrapped up here at our studio in Portland. There’s just nothing quite like kids and summer – nature explorations, playing with friends, lots of physical activity, healthy fruits and vegetables from the back garden, and...
by Jim Gillen | Jun 4, 2015 | Environmental Education, Mindfulness
“I’ve noticed that many people say that everything is connected,” said psychologist Leslie Gray at a recent workshop on Shamanic Counseling – a method of adapting indigenous healing practices to modern urban circumstances in an effective and vital way. “But they...
by Lynea Gillen | Apr 4, 2015 | Environmental Education, Mindfulness
Several years back, a writer for one of our local papers complained about school teachers getting graduate credit to teach yoga to their students. These courses, she mocked, should be listed in the Education Department catalog next to basket weaving. My thought?...
