Five ways to stay and feel younger without chemicals and surgery

No 1. Drink herbal teas occasionally.
No2. Forgive others and just stop thinking about how angry they make you feel. 'Let it go'.
No3. Find what relaxes you and do it for yourself; run, do yoga, paint, read or whatever.
No 4. Eat mostly foods from the earth.
No 5. Keep in touch with friends and family.

Allowing creativity in young children.

Let me use my own hands mummy

They know what to do

Let them create and play and test ideas. I have my own ideas too.

If you use your hands mummy it might look better than mine. Them I won't use my hands anymore because I'll think they don't work as well. 

Let me use my own hands mummy do you can see what I can do. I'll show you what I'm thinking and all the 'doing' will make my hands stronger mummy so next time I won't need any help mummy and I can shout out, " look what my hands and head did mummy, all by themselves!"

Empathy is the key

Empathy = Morality 

'Otherisation' destroys empathy and kindness.  Targeting people they see are not in their group. No religious morality leads to lack of empathy. Empathy is innate. Empathy equals more morality and rationality. Fewer people are dying in wars than in the past and this needs to continue. 

'The night before christmas' yoga for kids story

Warm up: Hands together in prayer, breathing in and out and circle of love around body. Bring hands together and pretend you are in a cold country and warm your hands up in front of the fire.
Begin in mouse pose (child pose) and read first paragraph- 'not even a mouse'.  Stretch up into 'mountain pose' and 'waterfall' pose 'as you hang stockings'. 'snug in their beds' is plank pose.
Frog pose for 'sugar plums' and hands rounded over head to finish.
Wearing a 'kerchief' and 'night 'cap' is sky warrior.
Then wind down to plank, then frog to sun salute and mountain pose (as you spring to feet).  Star pose for 'tore open shutters'.  Bow pose for sleigh.
Reindeer- deer pose but with hands as antlers.  Bicycle legs to 'dash away'
and 'dash away' again with Earth warrior.
'They flew' in 'aeroplane pose' Earth warrior.
'Prancing and pawing' in downward dog pose.
Star pose for 'St Nicholas'. 
Triangle pose for 'head to his foot'.
Dancing warrior for 'toys flung on his back'
Butterfly pose for 'beard like snow' actions.  Breathe and hands circle, open chest (and the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.)
Belly breathes- 'for shook like jelly'
and twist of his head- neck stretch side to side.
'plank' up the chimney he rose' and up to mountain pose.
Bow pose 'sprang to his sleigh'
up into 'camel' then up on knees with arms outstretched- "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night."


Tracey Ashdown-Maclay.

Yoga asana improvements for beginners

Well it's been a while, but I'm back and feeling positive about the new year coming
My yoga practice is coming along:) I'm teaching kids yoga and love it!

Quote on stress

"We are all a little bit crazy, just depends on degrees".

K 

yoga for kids

Benefits to children:  In our fast paced world it assists children to calm their thoughts, centre themselves for learning and learn how to ‘just be still’ for a moment.  This will assist children in focusing their minds for the day and will give children skills for life- long learning and stress reduction.

Yoga, perceptual motor skills and fundamental movement skills give children greater awareness of their body, their physical strength, balance, flexibility, better blood flow and breathing.

Yoga can be tailored to individual learning styles and along with movement activities (perceptual and sensory) help to activate the brain and coordinate the body and the brain together.  This in turn supports later reading skills, thinking skills and hand-eye coordination for writing skills. 

The creative side of children can come to life as they pretend to be animals and natural living things.

 

Children become more confident and benefit from a non-competitive form of fitness and well-being.