by Yoga Calm | Sep 18, 2022 | Breath work
Watch a baby at rest, and you’ll see a good example of healthy breathing. The pattern is relaxed, slow, and wavelike. Every bone, muscle, and organ moves with each breath. Unhealthy breathing, by contrast, is rigid or inappropriate to the situation and often exhibits...
by Lynea Gillen | Sep 4, 2022 | Stress, Trauma
Originally posted September 12, 2021 Back when I was first learning about trauma’s impact and the possibilities of healing, I often saw the negative consequences of childhood trauma pushed to center stage: addictive and other self-destructive behaviors, worse...
by Yoga Calm | Jul 24, 2022 | Community, Mental Health
It’s hard to believe that it’s already been 10 years since Lynea’s Good People Everywhere went into print! In fact, we almost missed its anniversary, only realizing it as we finalized its 13th printing the other day. Almost 30,000 copies of this...
by Yoga Calm | Jul 10, 2022 | Yoga Calm
It hardly qualifies as news anymore: Student mental health needs are up, and school resources are down. Counselors and psychologists are in especially short supply. A recent EdWeek survey found that in the 2020-21 academic year, only 8% of districts met the...
by Jim Gillen | Apr 17, 2022 | Anxiety, Mental Health
If you work with kids, you’re well aware that the youth mental health crisis we now face has been growing for many years. Pandemic life only exacerbated it. Now, the US Preventive Services Task Force is recommending that all children 8 and up should be screened for...
