Author Archives: saralindblom

About saralindblom

Sara is a professional writer focusing on healthy living. As a yoga instructor and raw vegan advocate, she spends time helping others find passion and success in their life. With a BA in Somatic Psychology and a minor in music, her primary interests revolve around kids yoga, movement and learning, developmental psychology, and creative arts therapy. "I believe what the world needs now is children. Not just kids age 0-12, but for all of us as people to become more childlike; experiencing wonder and curiosity for an ever-changing world." -Sara A. Lindblom

Imaginative Kids Yoga: Active Story Time

Once in a blue moon children gathered together to hear stories, create images in their mind of wonder and beauty, learn ethics about being human and caring for our plants and animals.  Today the story continues and in a yoga … Continue reading

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Letting Children Be the Guide: The Yoga of Spontaneous Freedom

A few days ago I witnessed something inspiring on my walk down a rocky beach.  It wasn’t the sound of crashing waves pressing and pulling back and forth against the shore or the glimmering sun shinning through the tropical canopy, … Continue reading

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Meditation not Medication: Believing in the Body

The body is a magnificent mechanism; an organic machine capable of extraordinary feats from hiking a 29,000 foot peak or running hundreds of miles at time, to giving birth and living over 100 years of life.  What a miracle it … Continue reading

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Kids Meditation and Self-Regulation

Self-regulation is ones ability to take responsibility for their emotions, channeling that energy into positive choices. Simply put, self-regulation is the psychological science term for self-control. The ability to self-regulate is a core strength, essential for healthy emotional development. As … Continue reading

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Spiritual Food: Clean Healthy Eating for Yogi Kids

Spiritual Food: Clean Healthy Eating for Yogi Kids Nutrition plays a large role in how we feel.  Especially for growing children, it’s important to pay attention to how food affects their wellbeing.  It’s interesting to notice how much of our … Continue reading

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Freedom to Be! The Yoga Between Parents and Kids

“If you really love a person (child, parent, friend, lover, etc.), you will give him or her absolute freedom—that’s a gift of love.  And when there is freedom, love responds tremendously.” -Osho To say the words freedom and love in … Continue reading

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Modeling Non-Violence to Children: Creating Sustainable Peace

Modeling Non-violence to children is important not only because it promotes peace in the future, but also because it creates peace in the present.  As a parent, school or yoga teacher being a model for kind and compassionate living is … Continue reading

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Perfection is the not the Goal: the Fun Way of Kids Yoga

Kids Yoga is meant to be a fun experience where children are given the opportunity to develop different skills in a non-competitive environment.  So often in schools kids are asked to run up against each other.  The stress of grades … Continue reading

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Is Yoga a Religion? Cultivating Diverse Community

For a lot of people, yoga appears to go against all they know and understand through religious faith.  Through a religious lens, yoga has all the traits of any other creed.  We sit with our hands in prayer, bow to … Continue reading

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Mantras for Kids and Teens: Transforming Kids One Positive Affirmation at a Time

Mantras are not only for adults, but also for kids and teens too!  The general definition of a mantra is set of sounds, syllables, or words that is believed to have the power to transform one’s state.  Of course, we … Continue reading

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