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Yoga and the Importance of Play in Schools
From Huffington Post This is an interview with Peg Oliveira, who has taught yoga for years in schools, detention centers, preschools, after-school programs and inpatient and outpatient mental health centers for youth and adults in and around New Haven, Conn. … Continue reading
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Can Court Mandated Yoga and Meditation Keep Kids Out of Prison?
From GOOD Magazine The Lineage Project’s mission is to keep young people, ages 11 to 24, out of the juvenile/criminal justice system in the United States. Our innovative program model uses Awareness-Based Practices (ABP), which includes yoga, meditation, and life … Continue reading
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When Anxiety Interrupts a Child’s Life
From the New York Times By JANE E. BRODY Yvetta Fedorova Is it any wonder so many children are anxious? As the recent horror in Connecticut demonstrates, children today may be confronted with unthinkable realities, events that their parents … Continue reading
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Classroom Yoga Helps Improve Behavior Of Kids With Autism
By Eliza Barclay for NPR Yoga is increasingly being used in classrooms across the U.S. to help kids behave and perform better in school. Researchers have found that kids with autism spectrum disorder who did yoga at their elementary school … Continue reading
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Yoga Could Help Teens Ward Off Anxiety, Study Shows
From the Huffington Post Considering yoga’s stress-busting effects, one would think that high-schoolers might benefit from the practice. And now, a study shows that yoga does confer benefits to teens. The research is published in the Journal of Developmental and … Continue reading
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Yoga offers benefits for people with special needs
Calm, strength and stamina are among benefits seen Yoga sessions with instructor Karen Fakroddin have improved mobility,… (Chuck Berman, Chicago Tribune) March 14, 2012|By Joan Cary, Special to the Tribune Erin Feeney capped off her 19th birthday celebration with a … Continue reading
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Yoga, art classes help girls on probation in Dakota County
From Twin Cities.com With olive oil facials and downward-facing-dog poses, girls on probation in Dakota County are learning new ways to cope with impulsive behavior, anger and trauma. During two-hour yoga and art classes, the Twin Cities-based Purusha Project teaches … Continue reading
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Yoga a Growing Trend Among Youth
From Daily Herald Count kids among the people joining the yoga craze in the United States. Yoga-loving parents are signing up their kids at yoga studios, Ys and park districts to learn the practice. Whether it is an “Itsy-Bitsy Yoga” … Continue reading
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Yoga used to help teen with Asthma
From ABC.com FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — Asthma is the sixth most common chronic condition in the U.S. and it accounts for more than 10-million absences from school each year. Breathlessness, a tight chest, wheezing and coughing. An asthma attack can … Continue reading
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In Schools, Yoga Without the Spiritual
From the New York Times By MARY BILLARD TO “om” or not to “om”: For those who teach yoga in schools, that is a question that arises with regularity. The little syllable, often intoned by yoga students at the beginning … Continue reading
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