Learn to use yoga and storytelling to teach healthy living to children and teens. Educators, parents, yoga teachers, and other professionals who work with children and teens are invited to learn how to integrate these ancient practices, which can help improve health and literacy in children and teens, into their work. Guided by Sydney Solis, author of Storytime Yoga: Teaching Yoga to Children Through Story, we begin our training by learning to use story to reconnect with our own inner life. Then, using myths and stories from multicultural sources—including African, Buddhist, Jewish, and Sufi traditions—we learn the craft of oral storytelling and practice creating original stories, such as healing fairy tales. We weave the stories we learn and create throughout the practices of yoga nidra, yoga asana, study of the yoga sutras, journaling, symbol making, and dream work. As we bring the power of story into our own life and yoga practice, we learn specific techniques for guiding the same experience for children and teens. $55 materials fee; include when you register. Please bring an eye bag.Sydney Solis, RYT, an associate of the Joseph Campbell Foundation, she has produced four World Peace Storytelling Gatherings. Her children’s yoga show has appeared on PBS and she is author of Storytime Yoga, The Treasure in Your Heart, and the children’s DVD, The Peddler’s Dream, which won a 2008 Recommended Award from Parents’ Choice Foundation. StorytimeYoga.com |
