School-Based Yoga & the Religion Issue

We recently ran across an interesting blog post by a mother who grew concerned when her daughter told of her class doing yoga at school – “not because I was opposed to the movement,” she writes, but because the particular practice involved activities...
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,...
Getting Kids Out of Their Heads, Into Their Bodies

Getting Kids Out of Their Heads, Into Their Bodies

For a recent Yoga Calm workshop, school counselor Bonnie Cannon wrote an insightful commentary on her developing awareness of yoga as self-study and how this may benefit the children she works with. We asked if we could share her good words on our blog. We were happy...

Trick or Treat

Halloween can be a wonderful time for children to explore their imaginations. Or, as many teachers and parents can attest, it can be a nightmare of sugar-fueled overexcitement and big emotions. There’s nothing wrong with “big energy”and excited...

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