It’s the end of the school year and I’m saying goodbye to loads of kids that I’ve been working with for weeks, months, and even years! Some of my preschool kids I’ve been teaching since they were 2 or 3 yrs old and are now 5 & 6 yrs old going off to Kindergarten. Some schools I taught all spring, or all year and I’m teaching my last classes there these next few weeks. I’m not one who loves saying goodbye, but it’s part of this job. There are a few really fun activities you can do with the kids to wrap up the end of your time with them in a giant bow! I love finding out from kids what their favorite poses are, somehow I’m always surprised at what they pick. It’s also a way to get them to reflect on their time with you and what they’ve learned.… Read More »
Ahhhhh….Relaxation
Savasana comes from the word Sava in Sanskrit which means corpse, and Asana is posture or seat. Corpse pose is another name for what I call relaxation or the “do nothing” pose. I just prefer not to call it corpse pose so relaxation is my term of choice. The benefit to this pose in yoga is to rejuvenate the body, mind and spirit. Savasana allows your body a chance to regroup, reset and process information at the end of a yoga class. It is when the strengthening, stretching, balancing, focusing, twisting all take effect. Your body is allowed time to let go of everything it was working on and holding on to. I love telling kids that this is one time in your whole day where you don’t have to do a thing. You get to just lie there and DO NOTHING. I like to use relaxation for a practice of mindfulness. We can listen to… Read More »
Yoga on the Farm
After spending my Memorial Day weekend with friends up in Hadley, MA who live on a lot of farmland, I was inspired. We went for ice cream to a working dairy farm called Flayvors of Cook farm that had chickens and cows which gave the kids such a sense of where their ice cream came from! I loved it. The farm sells an ice cream called Hadley Grass in which they use the local asparagus. Hadley was once called the “asparagus capital of the world” because of how fertile their soil is for growing asparagus. The wheels started turning in my brain while we enjoyed the cows and the ice cream. I love to take a real experience and then create a class out of it. I taught a lot of preschool classes this week which makes teaching about the farm so much fun. Preschoolers love the farm! Most of my classes… Read More »
