It was really sweet to see that one boy, Ethan, brought in his own puppet and case for it to use in yoga. He emulate my Lalita the Ladybug, who comes out of her box and opens and closes the class. He introduced it to the class, and it's his companion now for yoga! Kids really love puppets. I do to!

The fun thing was that Ethan told his dream at the beginning of class, and we made it into a warm up! He dreamt he was driving in a car and it was raining cats and dogs. So we scootched and walked on our bottoms with legs extended and pretended to drive a car. Or course we used cat and dog pose, but threw in cows, camels and other things that rained down! it rained so much we had to get in a boat, and used boat pose.

Another boy who typically has a hard time focusing, did very well to led the sun salutation chant. It made me realize that these kids, especially boys, need more leadership or activities to do during class. I noticed this as well in storytelling classes, that the boys definitely need more physcial movement. I don't think we should be drugging kids, they just need more movement! I think even some running around in the gym or wherever, active games, is almost a necessity. I told the story Raven Brings the Light and it went well, doing a lot of fun poses like crow and eagle to represent Raven.

I did my last live Storytime Yoga teacher training this weekend. It was a great group, including two school psychologists. In the family class, we had two babies. but they did great! Of course they don't get the storytelling, they are too young. But the parentsdid the yoga and these kids absorb it through them. I teach the parents to always tell stories to the kids - poetry, songs, stories - no matter what the age. It really helps the language development.

The second cycle of e-courses has started, and we have a great group as always. It's wonderful to have people from around the world! We have people from all corners of the U.S., and one from Canada and one from Australia!