Thank you Eight year old Marlie for presenting me with this yoga book you wrote and taught to classes in your school. I appreciate your interesting chapters~ Yoga that keeps me calm Yoga that keeps me Grounded Yoga with more than two people Yoga with two people Yoga that keeps me happy and your very helpful notes~ Remember you will not get it the first time Breathe slowly Remember to lean your beautifully detailed art~ and your permission to share your work on our blog~ I am grateful that you have been a grounded student for three years and you continue to serve your school with yoga. With love, Cheryl Crawford
inspired by Dr. Seuss’s Sutra: the Zax and Patanjali’s Sutra: yatha abhimata dhyanadva (Chapter 1, v. 39)
One day, making Okeys In the mountain of Dokey, Posed a West-Going Yogi And an East-Going Yogi.
{See, an Okey is approval, An endorsement as such. Each yogi seeked okeys So very much.}
And it happened that both of them posed in a place Where they bumped. There they stood. Foot to foot. Face to face.
“Look here, now!” the West-Going Yogi said. “I say! You are blocking my mind. You are right in my way. I’m a West-Going Yogi and I always think west. Get out of my way, now, and let me do best!”
“Who’s in whose way?” snapped the East-Going Yogi. “I always think east, making east-going okeys. So you’re in MY way! And I ask you to move. And let me go east in my east-going groove.
Then the West-Going Yogi puffed his chest up with pride. “I never,” he said, “take a step to one side, And I’ll prove to you that I won’t change my ways If I have to keep posing here thirty-nine days!”
“And I’ll prove to YOU,” yelled the West-Going Yogi, “That I can pose here in the mountain of Dokey for thirty-nine years! For I live by a mantra that I learned way back in West-Going Tantra. “Still the mind! That’s my mantra. Still the mind is the best! I’ll pose here, quite still! I can and I will If it makes you and me and the whole world stand still.
Hey… said East-Going Yogi I learned that as well. Let’s check yoga sutras Won’t that be swell?
Chapter1, verse 39 to be quite exact. Focus on things that you won’t find distract.
There are numbers of ways For the mind to become still. Focus on what you please To Fulfill!
It is the process of focus Which makes us a yogi Not the specific practice You see, Okey-Dokey?
Patanjali says to practice Right from the heart Allow this to deepen, For that is the art.
Fix the mind! Any object you choose, As a focusing prop to Fully fix and bemuse.
Get absorbed in your focus, Without distraction. You can attain stillness And sweet satisfaction.
Through our programs, we endeavor to “ground” kids, teens, and adults via yoga, laughter, and elevation. But what exactly does it mean to be grounded? By formal definition courtesy of the Merriam-Webster on-line dictionary….
grounded [ˈgraʊndɪd]
adj
sensible and down-to-earth; having one’s feet on the ground: mentally and emotionally stable : admirably sensible, realistic, and unpretentious <remains grounded despite all the praise and attention>
The week before college life officially started at Belmont Abbey College, the Student Life department held one of its biggest and most important trainings of the year for its Resident Assistants. “RA’s” are some of the most influential student employees on campus. They represent the college in helping new students settle into resident hall life, assist in planning social events, lead discussions, report maintenance concerns, serve as a resource to campus information, lend a listening ear and comforting shoulder to cry on, perform room checks, work in the hall office and much more.
Needless to say, the RA position entails a great deal of responsibility, but these students are ready and capable of giving even more light and love back to those they serve. With all of the trainings, seminars and long check-lists to prepare the resident halls for new student orientation, the RA’s wanted one more important thing to prepare them for this celebratory new year of college. . . to get GROUNDED!
Our children have an opinion and I feel it is important for them to be heard. In my classes I welcome discussion and I let my students know that their opinions matter. Yesterday’s classes were magically healing. My Thursday morning class at LEAD Homeschool in Avondale Estates started off the day with heart opening poses…
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Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Grounded Kids Yoga provides in-person and online training, professional development workshops, and ongoing support for educators, parents, and clinicians. We specialize in kids yoga, mindfulness, social-emotional learning (SEL), trauma and pain management, emotional regulation, and impulse control for preschool through high school students. Each year, we serve thousands of children and teens through school programs, after-school enrichment yoga clubs, summer camps, Girl Scouts, 4-H conferences, and yoga studios across Atlanta, the Southeast, and nationwide.
Thank you Eight year old Marlie for presenting me with this yoga book you wrote and taught to classes in your school. I appreciate your interesting chapters~ Yoga that keeps me calm Yoga that keeps me Grounded Yoga with more than two people Yoga with two people Yoga that keeps me happy and your very helpful notes~ Remember you will not get it the first time Breathe slowly Remember to lean your beautifully detailed art~ and your permission to share your work on our blog~ I am grateful that you have been a grounded student for three years and you continue to serve your school with yoga. With love, Cheryl Crawford
The week before college life officially started at Belmont Abbey College, the Student Life department held one of its biggest and most important trainings of the year for its Resident Assistants. “RA’s” are some of the most influential student employees on campus. They represent the college in helping new students settle into resident hall life, assist in planning social events, lead discussions, report maintenance concerns, serve as a resource to campus information, lend a listening ear and comforting shoulder to cry on, perform room checks, work in the hall office and much more.