Connect with Your Kids: Layers of Sound Exercise
LAYERS OF SOUND: This mindful listening practice asks your students to explore what they can hear around them in an intentional way. Our hearing is so sensitive. We don't have… Read more »
Articles and Practices
4 Steps to Getting Started – Life After Kids Yoga Teacher Training
So… you dove into children’s yoga trainings, voraciously read and wrote about your experiences, apprenticed through the mentorship program, have been hugely inspired by your peers in training and how… Read more »
Wishing Tree Reflection – Music, Yoga & Mindfulness
Each month Lianne will be writing a reflection on each one of her songs on her soon to be released album, “Breathe In”. Her first song and reflection is called… Read more »
Cultivating JOY While You Teach
As we embark on the holiday season, I am realizing more and more that joy is an essential quality of life that needs to be present when I teach. Oftentimes,… Read more »
From the Field: The Value in Allowing Kids to Share What They Learn
As a children’s yoga and mindfulness educator I enter each lesson with a plan in mind, but there is also a grand scheme, my ultimate purpose for exploring this work… Read more »
Let It Go: The Importance of Reflective Teaching
Did you ever have a moment teaching where you say something or do something that in retrospect was not supportive to your students? Yes, is the answer, no matter who… Read more »
5 Reasons Teens Love Partner Yoga
In my last fifteen years of teaching yoga in schools, community centers and studios, one of the most effective methods I have found for engaging adolescents is partnership. ! Developmentally, teens… Read more »
Layers of Sound
This mindful listening practice asks your children and students to explore what they can hear around them in an intentional way. Our hearing is so sensitive. All of the sounds around… Read more »
Less Reactivity and More Reflection
Simple tools to create more space in student/teacher interactions Every so often teachers are caught up in interactions with a student or even a whole class where they feel… Read more »
5 Tips to Reduce Anxiety
“Give It A Try” So simple yet so full of power – yet so scary for some of us. This morning I was fortunate enough to attend a conference at… Read more »
Mindfulness for Kids – A 5 Second Practice
Well-Wishes Creating a practice takes time for all of us and for children it’s no different. In our home I like to think of it as building a house. First… Read more »
The School Yoga Project and Social Emotional Learning: Research
CLICK HERE FOR ENLARGED VERSION OF RESEARCH POSTER Database Coding and Interpretation: April 20, 2014, Colin Pearsall Social emotional learning (SEL) theory posits that a child’s capacity for self-understanding… Read more »
Chair Yoga Exercises for the Feet and Toes
by Mayuri Gonzalez, The School Yoga Project Director and Little Flower Yoga Teacher Trainer Chair yoga is beneficial for teachers to practice during their long stretches of desk-time and… Read more »
How to Start and Maintain an At-Home Yoga Practice
My yoga practice really deepened and developed when I started to practice at home by myself. When you give yourself the opportunity to practice alone with only your… Read more »
How to Make a Glitter Jar
What you need: Container, water, glitter &/or glitter glue, food coloring (Optional: dish soap, glycerin) (And bring kids of all ages – this is a favorite for sure)! Why to… Read more »
10 Easy and Fun Ideas to Help Your Kids Relax!
Summer is here everybody and I have 2 questions for you. 1. Who is ready to run all day and night to keep up with the kids? 2. And… Read more »
Yoga & Mindfulness for Kids – What 10 Years of Research Reveals
The efficacy of yoga and other mindfulness practices are supported by thousands of years of tradition. Now, science is confirming the benefits for kids, too. (exceprt from Little Flower Yoga… Read more »
A Counselor’s Thoughts, Ending On a High Note
Throughout the country, as the warm weather settles in, schools are beginning to wrap up their academic year. Excitedly, we as teachers welcome the final months of the school year… Read more »
Six Simple Ways to Help Your Child Increase Focus Today: Tools from a Yoga and Mindfulness Practice
We often ask our children to pay attention. Pay attention to your school work, pay attention to your father, pay attention to your teacher. But we don’t always have a… Read more »
Yoga Nidra – Practice Surrender for Children and Adults
Yoga nidra is an ancient but little-known yogic practice that's becoming increasingly popular as both a form of meditation and a mind-body therapy. It is a systematic form of guided… Read more »
Joyful Commitment to the Local and the Global: An Interview with Karen Gilmour
We are so proud to spotlight Little Flower Yoga Teacher Karen Gilmour! Karen is the director of Alluem Kids, an ever-growing yoga program for kids, teens and families located in Alluem Yoga… Read more »
A Counselor’s Thoughts: Let’s Get Moving
As a former school counselor, LFY teacher Jess Belanger has a unique perspective to share with us. She will be contributing a monthly article to our conversation, offering information to… Read more »
In the Spotlight: The School Yoga Project – Montebello Road Elementary School
The School Yoga Project, a program of Little Flower Yoga, is honored to work with some incredible schools. Each month we will be sharing the story of a school with… Read more »
3 Things I Learned From The Whole Brain Child
As a yoga teacher, a mom and a person that is around children a great deal I found The Whole Brain Child by Dr. Daniel Siegel, M.D. and Tina Payne… Read more »
Tree Pose Exploration
Tree Pose Exploration Tree pose is among the most recognizable of yoga poses for a good reason. It is a balancing pose that is both challenging and achievable, and once you’ve practiced… Read more »
How to Use Books in Kids Yoga Classes
Reading meaningful and engaging books can really add to a child's experience of yoga and mindfulness. When we chose relevant books for our kids, we provide opportunities to connect more… Read more »
A Counselor’s Thoughts: Autism Awareness
As a former school counselor, LFY teacher Jess Belanger has a unique perspective to share with us. She will be contributing a monthly article to our conversation, offering information to… Read more »
A Counselor’s Thoughts: Reaching Every Student
As a former school counselor, LFY teacher Jess Belanger has a unique perspective to share with us. She will be contributing a monthly article to our conversation, offering information to… Read more »
Expanding Energy Meditation
This meditation is a favorite for many children. When you are really focusing in on the practice, it is an exciting way to feel the energy that makes up the entire… Read more »
A Counselor’s Thoughts: Snowed In? No Problem
As a former school counselor, LFY teacher Jess Belanger has a unique perspective to share with us. She will be contributing a monthly article to our conversation, offering information to… Read more »