Kids love to get fit and literate when they learn and play the Storytime Yoga way and do it with partners! Here at the DeBary, Florida Public Library in October 2015.
Lots happening with stories and yoga! Especially in the library! Because libraries are natural places to love stories, connect with their powerful imagery, learn wellness and get excited to read and learn!
Over the past 18 years of raising children, teaching and volunteering in schools with Mythic Yoga Storytime Yoga®, I have learned how powerful the imagery in stories we hear and tell children are. There is a mythic dimension to our beings, long-neglected in favor of the intellect. The picture-language of the soul, as Mythologist Joseph Campbell said, is cut off from the intellect and the instinctual side of our natures and psyches. We learn not by the intellect alone, but through the body and other functions of the psyche as well!
Teen yoga to educate and enlighten minds and bodies at the DeBary, Florida public library in 2015.
These days the psyche gets satisfaction through the Superheroes: Superman, Spiderman Wonder Woman. There is man becoming the machine with Iron Man and what happens when it goes too far in Darth Vader. How do we enjoy the benefits of yet also deal with downside of fast-paced technology? How do we mitigate these affects on our lives and children? How do we help our kids, families and ourselves stay in balance? The answer is with yoga and stories of course! Because when we practice yoga, not just yoga asana, but the psycho-spiritual aspects of Raja and Kriya yoga, we get so much more.
Swans and dragons, bullies and roses - the images that appear in our minds and bodies when we hear stories or read words without pictures gives us a glimpse into ourselves and the world within. This imagery is essential but missing in our education and wellness systems. Studies show that fantasy and imagination are important in learning. It comes through the power of story and yoga. It teaches us so much empathy, kindness, how to live in the world. My life’s work with Storytime Yoga, Sleepytime Yoga and Mythic Yoga!
The need for wellness and education has never been more essential in our troubled world that is plagued with illness both mental and physical as well as violence, be its television, its leaders. Make healthier choices in positive role models for peace and leadership. Connecting the mind to the body and the body to the environment is a practice to realign with and be in harmony with nature and at peace.
Storytelling and yoga are booming for kids and adults! What Storytime Yoga and Mythic Yoga has known all along!
So let's put the body into education and wellness by using yoga and stories. Recently teachers are using dance and myth to teach kids math and getting great results. Storytime Yoga® has been booming in the library systems and public libraries are perfect communal spaces for general wellness and education for all people.
I have told Greek myths with yoga at the New Smyrna Beach library with The Artemis Club features of Mythic Yoga. I am teaching and performing at the Florida Storytelling Festival April 1-3 in Mount Dora, Florida. I’m at the Loveland, Colorado Public Library April 30 and July 13 at the Leesburg, Florida Public Library. I also am writing about kids yoga in Central Florida on my Urban Yogini blog that I write for The Orlando Sentinel’s Hype Orlando Website.
Kids learned wellness recently with my persona The Queen of Bohemia at the DeBary, Florida Public Library. I taught Storytime Yoga for Kids and how to put on wellness programs as continuing education programs for librarians twice recently through the North East Florida Library Information Network. I also presented at the Florida Library Association Conference Performers showcase in Daytona Beach.
Sydney Solis at the Florida Library Association Conference Performers Showcase in Daytona Beach.
There an audience of a variety of abilities joined in and moved with me to The Nursery Rhyme Body Jam, from my new kids yoga story, dance and mantra music album. People who are used to sitting and consuming words from talking heads got up out of their seats and connected to their breath and bodies. In the process they learned narrative structure and self-awareness. All of these methods I've created to get people learning and moving lead to literacy.
It's merely a different way to learn and live, not dope up people with expensive medication they don’t necessarily need. Get moving! There is a body attached to that head! Learn with it and use all the functions of the psyche, not just the intellect! Connect to sensing and feeling! Symbol and metaphor! There is something deep within that wants to say hello!
I will be tying that all in with the work as I am now a Founding Sponsor of the K-12 Yoga in the Schools Website Resource. I will be blogging about libraries, story and yoga in the schools and more!
I also I helped relaunch also a DeLand, Florida Joseph Campbell Foundation Roundtable Meeting. I ran them in my Boulder home for years before I moved abroad in 2010 to go on a personal mythology hunt and Mythic Journey. now I live next door to the couple who did the audio and video on Bill Moyer’s PBS Classic The Power of Myth with Joseph Campbell! How’s that for following your bliss!
Peace, for the Children kids yoga story, dance and mantra music is perfect for wellness programing as it creates peace inside for world peace outside!
So stay tuned for more Storytime Yoga for Kids in the Library and for families, adults, seniors and general wellness and happiness and peace on earth! I will be touring putting on wellness programs with the release of my new Storytime Yoga album Peace, for the Children featuring folktales, chants and more of kids yoga story, dance and mantra music! Listen to it on CD Baby, Spotify and I-Tunes and Amazon! For the mythic dimension is with us and wants its story to be told - through our voices and us!
OM SHANTI
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