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Inspired by Babar: Stuffed Animal Yoga Sketches for Kids

Since this is family meditation and mindfulness week, the kids got out their copies of De Brunhoff’s Babar’s Yoga for Elephants and started trying out some yoga poses. When they got tired, they started making their stuffed animals do the “work.” This, of course, led to Bea’s lovely attempts to draw her own stuffed animals in yoga […]

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Summer of Awareness : Three Meditation Exercises for Kids and Families

This week, we’re going to begin a family practice of meditation and mindfulness which I hope will last a lifetime. There’s nothing worse than looking at your kids’ faces or bodies tensing up when they realize that something bad has just happened or that they might have just done something wrong. I’ve certainly seen that frightened […]

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