We’ve looked before at the relationship between physical activity and cognitive skills. The short version, as brain scientist John Medina has noted, is that our brains developed to work best while we’re moving in an outdoor environment. This is one of the reasons why,...
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?...
Can you imagine a school where kids show up dressed for PE? Where physical exercise is just as important as academics – and academic scores go up as a result? That’s the ideal world brain scientist John Medina described to the 3000 plus gathered for the kick-off...
As Lynea and I savor our experiences at last weekend’s mindfulness and compassion conference in San Diego, we can’t help but be amazed about how much this movement has grown in the last 15 years since we first started offering Yoga Calm in the public...
We’ve just arrived in San Diego for our return visit to this amazing conference, where educators. clinicians, researchers and administrators from around the country come together to share ideas, inspiration and knowledge of using mindfulness and compassion to help...