The safer way to re-introduce yoga back into schools, post covid-19 closures. Schools are reopening tomorrow and it is so vital that they do.However resilient kids are, they have had the brunt of COVID-19: Deprived them of half the academic year. Magnified existing education inequalities. Put children at risk beyond that associated with covid 19Continue reading “YOGA IN THE CLASSROOM”
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The Importance of Yoga in the Classroom
I have worked in schools for the last 4 years. It is fun but at the same time it can be frustrating, because the time that is allocated for activity and yoga is significantly less than it should be.Fun and play is the way children learn. When the kids play they are fearless, they tryContinue reading “The Importance of Yoga in the Classroom”
Summer Reading
… for yoga students and teachers. We are on holiday and it is wonderful to be able to take the time to read and rest.Before heading out into the wild though I like to take a couple of books with me, sometime they are read – probably raining a lot while camping; sometimes they areContinue reading “Summer Reading”
The Scope of Service…
I still remember my very first yoga class. It was bad. My students did not feel that way, but I did. I had only just started teaching (fitness) yoga and modifications were definitely not part of our training.I was covering a pilates class and In the class was a lady that found it hard toContinue reading “The Scope of Service…”
The New Normal
Teaching Chair Yoga Online I do remember the day the lockdown had come in. I was distressed about the amount of people I had seen walking across the park situated at the front of my house. It was like the busiest, sunniest bank holiday and I was distressed because I had also come to theContinue reading “The New Normal”
The Role of Adaptation in Chair Based yoga
I have been teaching chair yoga for 3 years now and it has been an amazing learning journey. I always thought, because of where I started with my yoga practice, that I would be heading in the vinyasa-ashtanga direction. In complete contrast now, I am making yoga accessible to the elderly and less abled. MyContinue reading “The Role of Adaptation in Chair Based yoga”
PRACTICE YOGA AT HOME
KIDS EDITION Covid19 has recently meant that many families are currently home-schooling.This has been challenging at the least, tiring mostly in its entity and finally frustrating for both parents and children. However amazing the children have been though, all of them and us, parents & teachers, realised how much harder it is. Very soon intoContinue reading “PRACTICE YOGA AT HOME”
Practice Yoga at home
Tips to help you enjoy your online yoga practices As the world is increasingly closing their doors and staying at home to protect their own and others’ health the online world is opening their doors to a range of services: social groups, meditation groups, group exercise and of course yoga.I have always been a bigContinue reading “Practice Yoga at home”