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Why is yoga good for Kids?
Yoga and mindfulness are wonderful and well-tested tools to help young people, from toddlers to teens, improve their physical and mental abilities and increase th...
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How To Be A Human In A Not-So-Human World
I have always considered myself to be a very happy person, and that’s what I also teach when I teach yoga… Isn’t enlightenment just “big happiness”?But in the las...
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Self Nurturing For The Whole Family
The only constant person in all of our relationships is yourself. If I’m not in a good place, nothing is. My relationship with my partner, my children, my work, a...
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Mandala Coloring For Inner Peace & Focus
I’m pretty sure you have coloured a Mandala before as it gained a lot of popularity in the last 2 decades. So must know how absorbing and calming this practice ca...
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7 Ways To Make The Sun Salute Fun For Kids
Sun Salutation – Surya Namaskar in Sanskrit – is the traditional yogic way to warm up. Almost every joint and major muscle group participates in these movements. ...
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3 Ways to Help Children Understand Relaxation
It is not easy to explain to children what is relaxation… maybe because we don’t do it often enough or because our grownup role models are such stress balls. Here...
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Rainbow Kids Yoga Teacher Success Story: This Could Be You!
Banner image by Cathy Fitz PhotographyWe would like to feature one of our students, Liz Hut, teaching yoga in Cambodia. Liz is a student in our Level 2, Rainbow K...
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Teaching A Language With Yoga
Gopala Amir Yaffa - Rainbow YogaDo you speak a second language?Spanish? English? Japanese? Chinese? Italian? French?Here is your chance to share it with your comm...
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Yoga Obstacle Course
This is one of the most fun ways to do yoga!A Yoga obstacle course is made up of different stations the students do in a particular order. Each station consists o...
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Finding Your Teacher's Inner Voice
"The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice." –Peggy O’MaraSo how important do you think it is to communicate with love, patience, acceptance, hope...
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How To Teach Children Yogic Breath
How To Teach Children Yogic BreathingProper breathingIn yoga, we breathe primarily through the nose (both inhalation and exhalation), and we try to use our abdome...
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Yoga Is The Cure-All For Schools, and Maybe Even The World.
Gopala Amir Yaffa - Rainbow Kids YogaI started my yoga journey of teaching yoga to children in 1995 and have taught in various schools and educational settings si...
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