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In Search of a Soft Heart Steps to Bringing Yoga to Your School – Get Creative Meditation Owl Teaches Kids to Look Within Yoga Twists for Teens A Challenge with Benefits
 
In Search of a Soft Heart

In Search of a Soft Heart

With Valentine’s Day around the corner I’ve been attempting to soften my heart, to open it to the richness and wonder of the world, to increase my ability to connect in a meaningful way to those with whom I come in contact. And so I’ve been contemplating my heart…

Steps to Bringing Yoga to Your School – Get Creative

Steps to Bringing Yoga to Your School – Get Creative

Often when people think of practicing yoga with students they think of gym class. This is a wonderful place to begin. However, there are a number of ways to bring yoga into your school with gym class being only one possibility. Here are a few creative suggestions.

Meditation Owl Teaches Kids to Look Within

Meditation Owl Teaches Kids to Look Within

Kids Yoga Class this week we learned how to meditate. The kids didn't really understand what it meant to meditate, so with the help of Meditation Owls we discovered how easy it is to meditate and look inside to learn more about ourselves.

Yoga Twists for Teens A Challenge with Benefits

Yoga Twists for Teens A Challenge with Benefits

We're taking the yoga twist factor up a notch, as any good teen is want to do, increasing the difficulty and getting deeper into yoga twists. Teenagers bodies are now prepared for more of a challenge when it comes to twists. We'll cover four twists here which are great for teens.

Useful and Fun Yoga Games – Heart’s Hide ’n Seek

Useful and Fun Yoga Games – Heart’s Hide ’n Seek

08 February 2010

This game focuses on increasing intuition, awareness, and sensitivity to others and the environment. It also teaches about our senses and how heavily we rely upon the sense of sight. By playing Heart's Hide 'n Seek children must develop their sense of hearing and touch in order to navigate unharmed and locate their classmates.

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My Interview with Stress Free Kids Author Lori Lite

My Interview with Stress Free Kids Author Lori Lite

05 February 2010

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Lori Lite of Stress Free Kids. Listen to my interview from BlogTalkRadio with Stress Free Kids Author Lori Lite! [Audio clip: view full post to listen]   Namaste Watch for more of my BlogTalkRadio shows here on Yoga In My School throughout the coming year. [...]

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Congratulations to Shanti Generation DVD Winner

Congratulations to Shanti Generation DVD Winner

04 February 2010

And the winner is...drum-roll please. The enthusiastic winner of the Shanti Generation Yoga Skills for Youth Peace Makers DVD commented on the review Shanti Generation DVD A Winner for Teens and Teachers.

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5 Ways Yoga Develops Self-Confidence in Teens

5 Ways Yoga Develops Self-Confidence in Teens

28 January 2010

Recently I wrote an article for Radical Parenting, a parenting site written by teens and gives you the straight facts on how to raise a teen in today's crazy, mixed up world. The article lists five ways yoga helps teens develop self-confidence and gain greater understanding of who they are and what is really important in life.

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Kids Yoga Poses – Tree Pose – Vrksasana

Kids Yoga Poses – Tree Pose – Vrksasana

27 January 2010

Trees are beautiful, nourishing, strong, flexible, and provide many of our basic needs such as food, shelter, clothing, medicines and tools. Tree pose is a basic balancing posture which is deceptively difficult and will help develop balance & concentration. Read on to learn arm variations for increasing difficulty, tree symbolism and expressing creativity in tree pose, as well as a partner and group version to really test your balancing prowess.

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Useful and Fun Yoga Games – Swami Says

Useful and Fun Yoga Games – Swami Says

25 January 2010

Like the playground favourite 'Simon Says', however this time the Swami is in charge. This game is not only fun, but it teaches listening skills, improves self-control and helps build leaders. Enjoy and play a yoga game today.

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