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How Do I Love You?

How Do I Love You

One of the things I love most about teaching yoga to children is that I get to combine both my love of books AND yoga.   Books are such a wonderful resource for teaching yoga to kids.  Almost any story that has animals or natural elements like trees, flowers, the sun, etc. can be the perfect springboard for introducing yoga poses.

This month’s theme in my classes is LOVE and I found the perfect book to use!

How Do I Love You? by Marion Dane Bauer   Each and every page provides a prompt for familiar yoga poses, as well as an opportunity for some creative movement and using their imagination to move like the characters in the story.

Here are just a few ideas for using this book to teach yoga and movement to your children or students, but feel free to use some of your own.  Be creative or let your child(ren) come up with their own ideas and PLAY yoga together!

How do I love you? Let me count the ways. 

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I love you as the sun loves the bright blue days.  ( Sun Salutation)
I love you as the bee loves a fragrant flower.  (Bumble Bee Breath and Flower Pose)
I love you as the thirsty duck loves a sudden shower. (Waddle and Quack like a Duck)
I love you as the bird loves a song to sing. (Bird Pose)
I love you as the waking bear loves the smell of spring. (Move and Roar like a Bear)
I love you as the cat loves a sunny sill.  (Cat Pose)
And as the dancing snowflakes love the winter’s chill.  (Dance like a Falling Snowflake)
How do I love you? Let me tell you how.
I love you as the nest loves the sturdy bough.  (Tree Pose and Rest in Nest-Child’s Pose)
I love you as the sea loves the sandy shore. (Be Still as a Starfish)
And as the ancient world loved the dinosaur.  (Stomp like a Dinosaur)
I love you as the wind loves its own sweet sound.  (Move and Swish like the Wind)
And as our friendly Earth loves to spin around.  (Spin like the Earth)
I love you as the moon loves each shining star. 
I love all that you will be and everything you are.

Love You like the Trees

From How Do I Love You? Copyright © 2009 by Marion Dane Bauer.
Illustrations copyright © 2009 by Caroline Jayne Church.

By: Category: Books, Children, Creativity, Family, Teaching, Writing, Yoga

Nominated for Very Inspiring Blogger Award

When I launched this blog last summer, it was intended to capture my journey during my yoga training and now it has evolved into so much more…Not only has blogging  provided me a platform to express myself creatively as a writer, but I have connected with so many beautiful souls that share my passion for both yoga & writing.

One of those beautiful souls, Heather Ballenger has honored me with this nomination for Inspiring Blogger Award.  Heather’s blog Chronicles of a Neophyte Yogi has truly been a INSPIRATION to me and we have since nurtured that connection through our blogs and Facebook.

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Beautiful Goddess Sister Heather Ballenger

“THANK YOU Heather for your support and this nomination.  Of all the blog awards I could receive, I am most moved to be receiving this one from YOU because my purpose is to INSPIRE others to love, express and be all that they are.”

Part of accepting the nomination is sharing 7 things about myself.  Since I am taking on being pure, boundless love this month, I am choosing to share very authentically what most may NOT know about me…

1. I’ve been obsessed with words since I was a child…I mean really obsessed..I’ve kept a journal (which has been my therapist and my salvation) for the past 25 years of my life,  Scrabble is my favorite game, I am a book whore (not a big surprise)  and I love “playing” with words.

2. I am equally obsessed with hearts, I collect them and get them as gifts all the time. I have been dubbed the Love Grrl, the Love Goddess and my playa name (aka alter ego) at Burning Man is LUSCIOUS LUV.   

3. My first love is poetry…because it is the voice of my soul.  I write deep soulful, sensual, sometimes erotic poetry. (and I will be sharing more of it here thanks to Heather.)

4. I love nature and my favorite place to go alone (though I have taken some special people here) is atop this huge rock in a county park in Northern New Jersey.   It’s simply breathtaking up there, looking down on all the trees and trails. I go there to write and take Self Portraits to capture my ever evolving soul.

5. I fall in love way too easily, my heart’s been broken many times but it’s still wide open. I’ve learned to accept that I have a big heart and always see the good in people, I have grown wiser over the years and I now see this as a gift and a strength.

6. “I am a sea of emotions, spilling all over the place, out of control sometimes and I don’t want to be contained, just let me be”…(a line from one of my poems says it all.)

7. I believe that everyone should let their inner freak come out and play sometimes!

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This is ME..Luscious Luv…I see only LOVE!

Now I would like to nominate some VERY INSPIRING BLOGGERS, whose blogs and writing I really love:

1. Courtney Bell  Stepping In
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To each of the 7 inspiring women I have nominated, thank you for inspiring ME!

If you choose to accept this nomination, here is the protocol:

  1. Thank the person who nominated you and link back to them in your post.
  2. Share 7 interesting things about yourself.
  3. Nominate 7 bloggers you admire.
  4. Leave a comment somewhere on the seven blogs to make them aware of their nomination.

To the nominees, you are under no obligation to accept this award and I will completely understand if you do not want to go through the award process (which may seem a bit overwhelming and time-consuming, I know).  I really just wanted to acknowledge how each and every one of you have inspired me to dig deeper into my soul and bring that to my own writing.

Namaste,

Betty

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Yoga Surrender Playlist

February is the month of LOVE…so I will be sharing about all aspects of love.  Yoga AND love are about surrender.

After a long weekend of writing and concentration, I got on my mat, set my ipod to my favorite yoga playlist and just           LET GO…

Music is such an important element in yoga class.  During my yoga training, I began observing all the elements of a yoga class, including the kinds of music teachers used.  Some of the music I loved and some I did not really care for, so I decided to create my first yoga playlist to use the next time I taught my friend and first student Julie.  For some reason, I was being called to create a heart opening playlist and selected a variety of songs that have inspired my heart.

When I met with Julie for our weekly yoga session, she revealed that she was in a vulnerable place.  The yoga playlist and heart opening sequence that I had planned for the week were perfect for what she was going through.  I am learning to trust my intuition more and on some level I just “knew” that this music would be a great complement to my yoga sequence.

Creating yoga playlists  provides an opportunity to express my creativity and love of music by combining the perfect songs to  complement the theme of my class.  Julie loved my playlist so much that she asked me to share it with her and now I am sharing it with you.  May you surrender to your heart!

My Yoga Surrender Playlist:

Offerings (Shaman’s Dream)

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Ramachandra (Jaya Lakshmi)

Beauty Beats (Beats Antique)

Waterfalls-Bali Chill Mix (Ease 2 East)

Feel You Live a River (Heather Nova & ATB)

Samadhi (Shaman’s Dream)

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Radical SELF LOVE

I have written other posts about LOVE but given my last post on exposing myself…raw & real…through my writing and this blog, it’s time to explore the kind of love that everyone struggles with the most…SELF LOVE.

Self love is a a daily commitment to treat yourself with respect, compassion and unconditional acceptance.  I spent so many years looking for love and validation outside myself, until I realized that love begins within.  It is an ongoing process of learning to love yourself, even the parts you don’t like.  Today I began my day with a meditation that really grounded me in who I am and reminded me that the more I love myself, the more I can bring that love to the world.

So, today on January 7, 2013, I am making a public declaration to LOVE MYSELF:

self-loveIn doing some blogging research, I recently came across the website of a fabulous woman named Gala Darling (how could you NOT     love her?) who is devoted to empowering women to really love themselves.  She created an amazing Radical Self Love Project and even has a radical self love bootcamp, so I highly recommend her website.  I was so inspired by her idea that I immediately took out one of my many blank journals (& a heart-shaped one at that) and started my own Radical Self Love Bible .  Here is my first collage page!

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The road to self love is more of a journey than a destination because no matter how much you learn to love and accept about yourself, there is always more to love!

I leave you with Gala’s Radical Self Love Manifesto.

I invite you to create your own or simply take on Loving Yourself Today!

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laughing

playing

family time

yoga

making art

baking

lounging

There is ONLY TODAY.

What will you do for yourself today?

 

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Stuffed Animal Yoga

Today I taught a yoga class to my elementary school students that I have been wanting to try for a while—Stuffed Animal Yoga.

Since last week’s class was cancelled due to the storm, I began the class having the children share their experiences during the storm.  As we were sitting in class, the snow was falling heavily outside and within the first 10 minutes, the lights turned out!  I reassured them that we were ok and now was the perfect time to bring out the stuffed animals.  

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Then each child chose their favorite stuffed animal and got a turn to demonstrate the yoga pose and have the class join them in doing the pose.  I encouraged them to be creative and use the stuffed animals to focus or balance.  For our relaxation time, the children placed their stuffed animal on their belly during savasana and noticed how their belly rises and falls with their breath.  

Stuffed animal yoga was a big hit!  

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Creating Ambiance in Yoga Class

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Yesterday I attended an Open Level Vinyasa Flow class taught by Sonia Quintero at Bhakti Barn in Millburn, NJ.  I had been curious to try a class at Bhakti Barn for some time and Sonia invited me to come to her class on Thursday night. The studio was really adorable, the colors and lighting were very inviting and there was an altar at the front of the room.  The class was a Krama class and helped me to understand the idea of sequencing and building upon poses and adding binds and twists to slowly open the body and deepen the practice.   There were a few pregnant women in the class and it was valuable to see how Sonia modified poses for them, since they could not do the twists.

I had told Sonia that I was in the midst of my yoga teacher training so she provided some valuable hands-on adjustments which made me aware of needing to lengthen and lift from my torso in some of the poses I find most challenging, such as Triangle and Extended Side Angle because I tend to collapse into my lower back.  I really enjoyed Sonia’s class and found it to be restorative after several days of intense practice during our training weekend and my Advanced Vinyasa class on Tuesdays.  I really surrendered in Savasana… the music was so relaxing and the energy of the studio and teacher were so soothing, that it allowed me to just melt into my mat.

After class, Sonia offered us a cup of tea, which was the perfect ending to such a restorative class. I learned so much from this class and from Sonia as an instructor, including how important it is to create an ambiance and environment for your students through the space, music and personalized instruction you provide.

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