Yoga and Mindfulness
Workshops and Individual SessionsPower up your mind-body connection for optimal emotional wellbeing and stress reduction
Ideal for groups of families, school enrichment classes, church classes, staff development trainings, and private parent-child sessions
Workshops/sessions can be brought to your location and tailored to desired emphasis and durantion
Available in English and Spanish
Building Resilient Families Workshops
Coming soon!
with Diana Bermudez and Lisa Danahy of Create Calm
Based on Radiant Child® Yoga and resilience research
Mental Health Benefits of Yoga, Mindfulness and Nutrition
Yoga and Mindfulness Research
BOOK: The Mindful Child: How to Help Your Kid Manage Stress and Become Happier, Kinder, and More Compassionate. Kaiser Greenland (2010).
Mindfulness practice leads to increases in regional brain gray matter density. Holzel et al. (2011). Psychiatric Research: Neuroimaging, 191, p.36-43. The effect of mindfulness practice on memory, self-regulation, learning and perspective taking.
A qualitative analysis of beginning mindfulness experiences for women with post-traumatic stress disorder and a history of intimate partner violence. Bermudea et al. (2013). Complimentary Therapies in Clinical Practice, 19, p.104-108.
Two studies reveal benefits of mindfulness for middle school students. Trafton (2019). MIT News. http://news.mit.edu/2019/mindfulness-mental-health-benefits-students-0826
Telles S. The Effect of Yoga on Mental Health of Children. In: Nayar U, editor. Child and Adolescent Mental Health. New Dehli: Sage Publications; (2012). p. 219–27
Büssing A, Michaelsen A, Khalsa SBS, Telles S, Sherman KJ. Effects of yoga on mental and physical health: a short summary of reviews. Evidence Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (2012).
Rabiner D. Does yoga help children with attention problems? Internet4Classrooms (2013).https://www.internet4classrooms.com/exceptional_children/ADHD_attention_deficit_disorder_does_y oga_help_children_with_attention_problems.htm
van Pelt J. Yoga and children’s mental health. Social Work Today (2011) 11(6):8.
Khalsa SB, Hickey-Schultz L, Cohen D, Steiner N, Cope S. Evaluation of the mental health benefits of yoga in a secondary school: a preliminary randomized controlled trial. J Behavioral Health Services Research (2012) 39:1.
Balasubramaniam M, Telles S, Doraiswamy PM. Yoga on our minds: a systematic review of yoga for neuropsychiatric disorders. Front Psychiatry (2013) 3:117.
Yoga improves mood and decreases anxiety:
Effects of Yoga versus walking on mood, anxiety and brain Gaba levels: A randomized controlled MRS study. Streeter et al. (2010). Journal of Alternative and Complimentary Medicine, 16(11), p.1145-1152.
Effect of mindfulness and yoga on quality of life for elementary school students and teachers: research of a randomized controlled school-based study. Bazzano et al. (2018). Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 11, p.81-89.
Science shows meditation benefits children’s brain and behavior. Walton (2016). Forbes.
Meditation and yoga and modulate brain mechanisms that affect behavior and anxiety-A modern scientific perspective. Krishnakumar et al. (2015). Ancient Science, 2(1), p.13-15.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4769029/
Yoga effective at reducing symptoms of depression. Sliwa (2017). Neuroscience News.
https://neurosciencenews.com/yoga-depression-7247/
Nutrition
Why good nutrition may be the best antidepressants. Frye (2020). Psychology Today.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/202002/why-good-nutrition-may-be-the-best-antidepressant
From fear to guts: How the microbiomae fights anxiety. Frye (2020). Psychology Today.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/201912/fear-guts-how-the-microbiome-fights-anxiety
The roots of mental longevity. Goldynia (2019). Psychology Today.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/201906/the-roots-mental-longevity
Digesting the connection between food and mood. Phillips (2019). Counseling Today.
https://ct.counseling.org/2019/12/digesting-the-connection-between-food-and-mood/
BOOK: Change Your Brain, Change your Life. Amen (2015).