The STORYTIME YOGA AT-HOME TRAINING Package

Educate children, teens and even adults with yoga and the art of oral storytelling. Strengthen your family connection with yoga and story.

• Learn the art of oral storytelling for literacy and mental health
• Learn yoga to do with your child for health and fitness
• Teach your children peace and character education in the home, school or studio.
• Tap into your creativity for personal enrichment and transformation

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The Storytime Yoga At-Home Training

There are three segments in the training, featuring 16, self-paced lessons, to teach you to bring the joy and health of yoga and story into your own home, school, library, yoga studio or treatment center! See the benefits of Yoga and Story for you and your child!

• 3 segments of learning with four lessons each to build on your storytelling and yoga skills
  1. Segment One: Awakening the Storyteller
  2. Segment Two: Stories from the Heart
  3. Segment Three: Mythic Yoga
• MP3 Audio lectures with each lesson segment
• E-book of Storytime Yoga: Teaching Yoga to Children Through Story
• E-Book of The Treasure in Your Heart: Yoga and Stories for Peaceful Children
• E-Book of Mythic Yoga: Vishnu’s Dream
• Downloadable video of live Storytime Yoga class The Peddler’s Dream
• Audio MP3 downloads of The Peddler's Dream: Wisdom Stories from Around the World, and The Golden Cucumber: Stories from Indonesia.
• Sydney's childhood memoir of Outside The Concentration Camp
 

All for $299!

Join the League of Yogic Storytellers online to interact with the course work with an international community of children's yoga teachers!
 

Additional coaching and training available to supplement your experience

COURSE OUTLINE

AWAKENING THE STORYTELLER SEGMENT ONE:
1. Audio lecture
2. The importance of story, symbol and imagination
3. The Healing Power of Yoga and Story
4. The Art of Storytelling
5. Benefits of Storytelling
6. The role of the Storyteller/Yoga Teacher
Lesson ONE
1. The Storytime Yoga Method –interdisciplinary learning
2. Techniques for Teaching children Pre-k through 5th grade. Special section on working with teens
3. Class curriculum and set up.
4. How to find and tell stories with confidence
5. STORY: The Peddler’s Dream from England
Lesson TWO
1. Finer points of storytelling.
2. Introductions and centerings.
3. Using props
4. Working with ADHD children and holding kids' attention.
5. STORY: The Magic Pear Tree from China
Lesson THREE
1. Meditation and Relaxation through Story and Image
2. Follow up activities, using art, writing and story.
3. Warm ups
4. STORY: The Shipwrecked Sailor from Egypt
Lesson FOUR
1. Stories in Action. Getting children to create and tell their own stories for literacy and yoga.
2. Other ways to use story and yoga.
3. The Power of Personal Storytelling.
4. Games
5. STORY: The Lion’s Whisker from Africa
STORIES FROM THE HEART
1. Audio lecture
2. The Age of Anxiety and the Need for Meditation and Relaxation.
3. Stress free living and Relaxation in the Home
4. Teaching yoga philosophy and peace and character education to children through story
5. Relaxation and meditation with story and image.
6. Therapeutic uses of story and Yoga Play Therapy, the benefits of Ayurveda for Children
7. The wisdom of stories
8. Building a story repertoire
Lesson ONE
1. Exploring yoga philosophy and peace education with children
2. Storytelling for mental health
3. Building your repertoire.
4. Making a story your own
5. STORIES: Children of Wax – Africa
6. The Cracked Pot – Hindu
7. The Stonecutter – Japanese
8. Praying the Psalms - Jewish
Lesson TWO
1. Relaxation and Yoga Nidra with story
2. Creative visualization and guided imagery with children
3. Advanced storytelling techniques
4. Creating healing fairy tales for personal and class use
5. STORIES: The Story of the Sands – Sufi
6. Calming the Storm – Christian
7. The Jewel in the well – unknown
8. The Banyan Deer - Buddhist
Lesson THREE
1. Using story as theme in classes
2. Activities for children’s self-reflection
3. Personal Storytelling
4. STORIES: The Monkey and the Moon – Chinese Standing Still – Jewish
5. The Heart that No Longer Moves – Sufi
6. The Three Sisters - Muslim
7. Gift From the Gods - Hindu
Lesson FOUR
1. Stories for Anger management
2. Stories for peaceful children
3. Performing as a Storyteller
4. STORIES: Conejito and the Wax Doll – Native America
5. Two Wolves – Native America
6. The Dove and the Sparrow – Unknown
7. The Spirit Who Lived in a Tree – Buddhist
MYTHIC YOGA: Segment Three
1. Audio lecture
2. What is myth? The History of Myth
3. The need for Myths and the Mythic Imagination in the Modern Era
4. Myth and Yoga
Lesson ONE
1. Creation myths
2. Connecting to the Myth - myth contemplation during yoga
3. Personal Storytelling early life
4. Self-reflection through myth
5. MYTH: Vishnu's Dream – Hindu
6. Sedna – Inuit
7. Amaterasu - Japanese
8. Hina and the Eel - Polynesian
Lesson TWO
1. Dream work
2. Symbols
3. Animals and nature – Animal totems – Cycles of heaven and earth
4. Personal Storytelling – Desires and fears – adult life
5. Myth contemplation during yoga
6. MYTH: The Fabric of Life – Hindu
7. The Man Who Forgot He Was God – Hindu
8. The Grateful Crane - Japanese
9. Jumping Mouse - Native Amerian
Lesson THREE
1. The Eternal Return
2. Personal Storytelling – Death and transformation – mid life
3. Myth and dream symbol contemplation during movement
4. MYTH: Durga and Kali – Hindu
5. Inanna – Sumerian
6. Osiris and Isis – Egyptian
7. The Birth of Jesus - Christian
Lesson FOUR
1. Mythogenesis – creating personal myths and body myths
2. Healing with myth
3. MYTH: The Birth of Krishna
4. The Fisher King – Grail myth