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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.

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    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!

    Yoga helps folks with special needs

             If you are looking for a way to bring calm and to build stamina for folks with special needs, watch this video and read the article just published in the Chicago Tribune: "Yoga offers benefits for people with special needs"  As one of the teachers recognizes, "The beauty of yoga is that it helps you wherever you are at," said Fakroddin.  Gadi Revivo, a pediatrician who specializes in rehabilitation, says that even though yoga is thousands of years old, it brings something new to his special-needs patients. Listen to the video and look through the article for a lot of good information and links to more programs. 

    Photo: GreenTREE Yoga program, Final Relaxation SPLORE retreat on the COLORADO River.

    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.”

    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!

    Healthier School Parties

     

     Check out these ideas on how to make the parties fun and healthy too. 

    Here are some ideas from the article on how to make healthy FUN for kids.  --  the Center for Science in the Public Interest and the Connecticut State Department of Education suggest:

    • SHARE -- find  a community project to benefit local seniors, chemotherapy patients or animal shelter animals.
    • Have a project with  art supplies.
    • Let the kids prepare their healthy treats
    • Read a book or tell riddles/jokes

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