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  What exactly is a FLY Teaching Immersion? I found FLY Yoga Arts in 2013 on a sign outside Go Yoga and the words Yoga + Creative Arts + (Kids) flew right at me. I had just moved back to NYC and amidst all of my odd jobs, I was in need of something MORE: a creative outlet, maybe, but mostly meaningful work to give my daily life a greater sense of purpose, a drive, a perspective outside of my own self-filled tunn

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

Have Healthy Kids all VATA season long! The Fall is well upon us! With it’s chilly temperatures, stirred up dust, dryness and early darkness, our kids may be susceptible to a case of the sneezes, more stirred up energy and agitated sleep. Since every person has a different reaction to weather and environmental changes, the seasons are a great way to explore exactly how the elements affect our bodies and minds.

Happy Halloween from FLY!!! Here is an EXCLUSIVE Peek into this week’s In school and At Home Practice. Become part of the FLY community to receive lessons weekly!   At Home Practice for your FLY Kid   October 27 – 31, 2014 : Halloween Party! Intention: Shape Shifting What does it mean to put on someone/ something else’s skin? This time of year is filled with costumes, and play pretend… but why

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

Summer is knocking at our door! Many of us have already transitioned into the mode of linen and sun hats, and kids are awaiting their days of adventure . But like many teachers and parents, you may wonder what to do with all this extra (and amazing) kid time on your hands… especially if your work schedule doesn’t slow down nearly as much theirs does. At FLY, we see these days of play and wonder can also be a time to

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

Do You ever notice that you repeat the same words over and over again? Maybe you’ve even noticed you always walk the same way? Brush your teeth with the same hand? Or even get frustrated at the same thing over and over again! Yes, there are days where the gears feel stuck and we feel physically and creatively blocked. Our body creaks with tension or pain, our hearts just can’t kick a negative feeling, and