- Classroom Yoga
- Yoga for trauma
- Yoga helps folks with special needs
- Why we do family yoga …
- Having Fun in School!
- Family Fun Yoga!
- Salt Lake School District learns to Relax!
- Classroom Yoga Breaks
- Help kids learn to manage stress at home and school
- Energize your yoga practice with some new information!
- East meets West
- Healthier School Parties
- The Whole Family
- Connect the Family!
- Yoga thought for the day
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When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress Disease Connection
by Gabor Matte, MD (click cover)
Wonderful and accessible insights into how our stress affects us, an important book for those working with children ~Books We Recommend
Click cover. "Train Your Mind to Change Your Brain" by Sharon Begley.
The is a book filled with reasons to do yoga as it celebrates the ability of the brain to rewire and to learn new tricks. We can do this at any age. It's filled with science and wonderful stories of why this all can work. A heartening book to share.
Classroom Yoga
We are in the thick of classroom yoga. 
KSL filmed us on Monday, stay tuned for which day at 5 am you can catch it (or maybe I will post the link..) Many thanks to Julie Iorg, our wonderful volunteer yoga teacher who said, “We started today! YEAH! They too are a great school and I feel so lucky to be working with them! All of the teachers and students were so thankful to have the yoga breaks. They were excited and welcoming and each class truly enjoyed the break that we shared ..Thanks Yael for everything. As your yoga breaks are a gift to these children- it is a gift for me to share them!” free breaks on our website!
Having Fun in School!
Many thanks to Rachelle Ballard, a super GreenTREE Yoga volunteer who is doing the 5 minute yoga breaks at Newman Elementary School (CDs provided thanks to a SLCC grant!) She says, “I just wanted to tell you how much fun I’m having at Newman. I love those kids! It’s been so fun and the kids just eat it up. I’ll genuinely be sad when its over. “
For more info on how to set up a volunteer in your school (who doesn’t have to know yoga!), visit greentreeyoga.org or click here!
Salt Lake School District learns to Relax!
Many thanks to the wonderful teachers, K-12, in the Salt Lake District (about 90 strong!) who attended our yoga workshop at their Career, College, and Civic Reading Spring Conference today.
They came to learn some 5 minute yoga breaks to share with their classes and to help manage their own stress. It was such a fun group — lots of good breathing and laughing and requests for staff trainings. For more on the yoga breaks, visit greentreeyoga.org or contact Yael at yoga@greentreeyoga.org for more info on how to get it into your school.
Classroom Yoga Breaks
Many thanks again to Salt Lake Community College 
for the generous donation to help fund our yoga classroom yoga programs! We are starting in four area schools and another one will follow. Many thanks to our fabulous volunteers too -Andrea Havemann at Silver Crest Elem (Herriman); Julie Iorg at MorningSide (Holladay); Rachelle Ballard at Newman (SLC); and Cayle Gabbott at Taylorsville Elem. For more info contact Yael yoga@greentreeyoga.org or listen to free breaks on our website!
Help kids learn to manage stress at home and school
Education is all a matter of building bridges. ~ Ralph Ellison. 
Free 5 minute audio yoga breaks for the classroom at www.greentreeyoga.org. Help students and teachers take a break — and return to learning with more energy, less stress, and a more positive attitude! “Five Minute Yoga Breaks are enjoyable and help our students focus on their work. Teachers have said yoga breaks are great when transitioning to the next subject and they help reduce anxiety and stress before a test or quiz. Yoga Breaks have helped us integrate more movement throughout our day and reach our goals for Gold Medal Schools andWellness! “ Heidi Kunzler, Principal Uintah Elementary School. ANYONE can volunteer to teach this in the classrooms, no yoga experience necessary!! Find out how at greentreeyoga.org.
Set Yourself Up for Success
School Volunteering: How Much is Too Much?
The New York Times had an article on parents who just got so burned out from volunteering they had to say NO. Don't let it get to that point. Make realistic decisions about what you like to do and how much time you have to give. It can be once, it can be 10 minutes a week.
Set yourself up for success so that you don't end up saying NO to everything school related. It's your time -- take control of how you use it! Why it's just like your breathing - you control how you breathe and therefore how if affects how you feel. Ahh. Maybe volunteer in a school to teach some 5 minute yoga breaks! Visit greentreeyoga.org to learn more about the program. Listen to free tracks!
Connect to Yourself
Here is a fun idea for helping kids, K-6, explore more about who they are and what qualities they think they possess.
Click on this link to get a free activity from the new book “School Volunteer Handbook: For K-6 Teachers and Parents” (Lila Press, 2011).
Proclaim a School Volunteer Week
Take a page from the Sacramento County Office of Education and proclaim a school volunteer week to help raise awareness and build your school volunteer program. It is not too early to start planning for the week in April.
Rally some volunteers to do classroom yoga breaks. More information on this volunteer program is available at www.greentreeyoga.org.
Champions of Change: Healthy Families
Another way to volunteer is to help bring some good health into your school. This website gives some easy steps to organizing folks to help families eat more healthy foods and get exercise. Perhaps you could be a “Champion of Change” in your neighborhood.
How to be a School Volunteer — simple steps
If you are looking for a way to help kids and teachers take a quick stress break, then this book has an entire chapter for you! The new School Volunteer Handbook (click here) not only has a chapter showing you how to do the simple yoga breaks (and you don’t have to know any yoga), it also has an easy to use LittleTREE Yoga CD in the back of the book. Look at sample pages and listen to sample tracks at the website link. Please let us know what you think!
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