Winter Warmers… How to Keep Your Heart Open When Your Jacket is Closed! Our PS 75 FLY Girls huddle together to find connectedness! After some playful hide and seek, Sister Winter is now fully upon us! As the hibernation season rolls in and many places around the country start to get darker and chillier, life doesn’t always slow down along with it. With the tendency to “push on through”, we mus
Looking for Healthy ways to Beat the Heat? Sure, we’ve all heard the Summer advices: drink lots of water, keep in the shade, stay inside where it’s cool… But, how often are we truly in tune with what our own body or our child’s body really needs? We are at a turning point in the health scene, and more and more, doctors and parents are looking away from what’s always been done, and seeking, instead, the specifi
Respiration is defined as “a single breath”. And in the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, one of the great Yoga philosophy texts, Swami Swatmarama proposes that our life is gifted a certain number of inhales and exhales. The slower and more consistent our breath becomes, the younger we will feel and hopefully the longer we will live. Perhaps the key to the feeling like a child is to Breathe Yourself Young. When breath departs, s
We’ve all been there. The struggle to engage kids for homework time, dinner time, bath time, bed time… why does it seem like such a fight? FLY’s got some tips that can help bring some play and fun to the most resistant of kid activities. Below is a teaser from our new FLY Freebie, exclusively for newsletter subscribers: “5 Playful Tips to Get Any Kid to Practice!” Missed signing up? Clic
Make your Mom’s heart FLY! Many of us have made these paper creations for party decorations, events, and seen them in boutique windows. When done with the FLY mindset, this project is an amazing way to introduce focus, patience, and love into your creative practice at home or in class. What You will need: Bright Colored Tissue Paper Pipe Cleaners A Pair of Safety Scissors Step One Ask your child to pick three c