- 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.
Why we do family yoga …
More family yoga at local libraries this week. At one program, a grandmother sat down on the mat and announced, to us all, that her husband was dying and she needed to destress. So I told her she'd come to the right place. Later I saw her by her car... She offered that she had known about the breathing to release stress, but had forgotten... and now she would do it again.
Namaste, this is why we do family yoga!
Another woman shared that she'd just lost her job and really needed the breathing to help her cope.
Family Fun Yoga!
We’ve go two more Family Fun Yoga programs coming up!
We will be at the Kearns Library on Monday March 12th at 7 pm and at the Tyler Library on Tues March 13th at 7. Here’s a comment from last month: “Thank you so much to Green Tree Yoga for the family yoga class. My family all enjoyed it very much. I especially appreciate some of the skills that my daughters are using – as it happens, at this very moment as I am writing this – to quiet down. My husband liked it so much he’s willing to try an adult yoga class with me. Thanks!” Rebecca Howard.”
The Whole Family
More Family Yoga! It’s a great way to bond, to connect, to share some fun, and to build some memories. Hopefully there’s a camera nearby! If you want to try it at home, here’s fun dvd that will get the group involved. Whale Yoga! by Next Generation Yoga. Check out theGreenTREE Yoga website for Family Yoga scheduled in Salt Lake FREE at libraries.
Connect the Family!
I love Family Yoga! It’s a wonderful way for the whole family to share some positive energy, good times, and really connect with each other. It helps to lower the stress levels of everyone who does the yoga, all shapes, ages, and sizes. Parents will come for the kids… and leave excited about finding some yoga to do for themselves. If you haven’t tried family yoga, look for some at a studio or library near you. Or find a dvd to do with the group at home (a kids yoga dvd can be just the thing!). More free ideas click here.
More Yoga Family Fun
GreenTree Yoga Family Yoga at the Kearns Library last night was so much fun! We had many families coming to enjoy Family Night with each other and new friends. One partner King Dancer pose had 7 family members in it! There was a lot of laughter and noise — yoga in a library! But no one seemed to mind. We’ll be at Salt Lake libraries the first two weeks of Feb and March, check our website for locations. Get some books and dvds from the library and enjoy family yoga at home! greentreeyoga.org
To Help Kids Relax and Learn a Life-Long Tool ~
If you are looking for a charming way for kids to learn how to relax, try introducing them to this book — Thich Nhat Hanh, a Zen Master and Buddhist Monk, gives us a book with simple diagrams and easy movements that will appeal to all ages, but especially to the young!
hover to look inside!
Family Yoga Fun
Family yoga is one of my favorite to teach. The kids have so much fun, and the parents are relaxed and get a wonderful introduction to the benefits of yoga. If you haven’t tried family yoga, you might like it! Ask a local studio if they offer a class, or suggest they introduce it!
It’s Winter Fun at our Family Yoga programs around the valley. We had a full house at the Hunter Library Monday evening. Here is our schedule for the next three months – Hunter Lib: Wed 2/1 and 3/7. Tyler Tues. 1/10; 2/14; 3/13 and Kearns, Mond. 1/9;2/13/ 3/12. All shapes and sizes welcome to come and laugh with us!
Yoga for Teens
If you work with teens and are looking for a way to help them learn some stress management techniques and learn to be healthier, check out this book: Yoga for Kids and Teens.
”Yoga for Kids and Teens is a friendly, creative, smiling invitation to take more steps into the journey of yoga. Experience an easy, inspiring, ‘five minute yoga break for classrooms’ and Sola Stikk Yoga, useful for all ages, sizes, shapes and abilities. Charming illustrations with an excellent chapter on healing relaxations to poetically ”’melt-the-mind.”’ — Lilias Folan, Author of Lilias! Yoga Gets Better With Age and The Inner Smile.
Help Kids Relax
Next Generation Yoga is a wonderful resource for helping kid to connect with yoga. Jodi’s easy style invites kids to explore and to experiment with yoga and all its benefits.
Watch this clip from her enchanting Whale Yoga DVD.
Gifts that are not just for kids!
This isn’t just for yogis who are kids — I know grown ups who put these prints on their walls just to smile!Check out these 11 x 17 inch signed prints from Yoga Makes Me Feel — they make a fun gift for any yogi or anyone looking to smile. Six prints in all (click here)-- great for a kid’s room or classroom! From the picture book Yoga Makes Me Feel… Artist Svea Lunoe!
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