A Compilation of Mindfulness Exercise Favorites for Kids and Adults!
Mindfulness Games for Community Building/Stress release (great resource is the Mindful Games Activity Cards – Susan Kaiser Greenlard with Annaka Harris. Some of these exercises have also been adapted from Jon Kabbat-Zinn’s Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Course) · Some Favorites (though there are many more!) · Feeling my Feet · Ask students to stand, eyes […]
Returning mindfully back to school!
From January until the end of May, 2018, there were 21 school shootings in which individuals were killed or injured. As our children go back to school, it is important to reflect on a failed system of safety in our schools and to be proactive in order to prevent future violence in the coming school […]
Relinquishing Control; embracing the unknown and living in the present moment
One of the most challenging things that I have had to deal with is the unknown. As someone who likes to have control over a schedule and who is regimented, unchartered territory has always been difficult for me. When I was a child, teenager, and a young adult in college, in medical school and newly […]
Living and accepting the moment; relinquish any ideas of control and live in the moment
This past week I have embarked on a long journey to learn more about Metta, otherwise known as lovingkindness meditation. I recently finished reading “Lovingkindness: The revolutionary art of happiness,” by Sharon Salzberg with a forward by John Kabat-Zinn. Having noticed that many meditations begin with “may all beings…” I wondered where the actual framework […]
Empowering yourself first will help you to empower others; good morning empowering 10 yoga poses
Try these poses when you get out of bed each morning before starting your day. A little bit of yoga each morning can make a huge difference in your perspective for the rest of the day and your ability to tolerate and cope with difficult people or experience. Yoga poses boost your self-confidence, lightening your […]
June is Pride Month; Acceptance, compassion towards others, embracing your individual identity
I first want to start this blog by referring you to my website, yogaforourlives.org. It is my hope to establish this non-profit organization implementing yoga and mindfulness into school curriculum to infuse in our children adaptive coping skills to moderate extreme emotions, resulting in violence, bullying, and mean behaviors. It is also my hope to […]
Necessary change in our schools; working on prevention of violence and hatred in our youth
Instead of writing a normal type blog this week, I have decided to post the key steps to a non-profit organization (yogaforourlives) that I’m currently working on in order to introduce yoga/mindfulness and moving meditation into our school curriculum at a young age. I am now in the process of building the yogaforourlives.org, which will […]
The Challenge and the Importance of SVASANA
We live in such a fast paced society that sometimes we make judgments that are too rash without taking the energy or time to do our research or listen to others. Before I fully immersed myself in teaching yoga and in the teachings of yoga other than the one of the eight limbs, the asanas, […]
Acceptance – Temporary vs. Permanent
Another week. I’ve made it 5 weeks with the straight-legged brace (now only using on long walks). With the straight-legged knee brace off, I’m working on range of motion of the knee. 5 weeks ago, king pigeon with bending the left knee was no problem; pigeon was no problem; tree was no problem. As much […]
WHAM!!! ARE YOU SERIOUS? KIDDING ME?
Wow, I do bend my legs a lot more than I thought! The day after I broke my patella (“truly busted it” in the words of the ER doc – just what you want to hear), I went into my son’s classroom with my kid-friendly skeleton book to show them why I had a knee […]