Nominated for the 2007 Anne Izard Storytellers' Choice Award! This classic teaching yoga to children's guide by renowned storyteller and yoga teacher Sydney Solis gathers the innovative exercises, songs and most of all stories that make up Storytime Yoga. Storytime Yoga seeks to enlighten young minds with the magic of yoga while recounting some of the world's most delightful, instructive stories in a way that encourages literacy and vibrant physical health. Designed for parents, teachers and anyone interested in working with kids from Pre-K through 6th grade, it is packed with inspired and yet practical information. Here you'll find classical Hatha yoga poses used as gestural illustrations of a serious of specially rewritten "teaching stores," about the importance of love, generosity, peace and friendship. There are captivating tales ranging from the Rabbit in the Moon (India) to the Magic Pear Tree (China) and the Shipwrecked Sailor (Egypt) along with many more. The product of hundreds of hours of in-class work by Solis, Storytime Yoga is a worthy addition to the library of anyone interested in bringing the radiant health of yoga and storytelling to the youth of the world.
Since 2003 Storytime Yoga has been a pioneer in children's yoga and body-centered education, reaching thousands of children worldwide via school visits, yoga studios, libraries, teacher trainings, the Internet and media.
Although there is no official school count, hundreds of preschool and elementary teachers, yoga teachers, librarians, therapists, occupational therapists and parents have been trained in the technique of becoming oral storytellers as the basis to teach yoga to children for literacy, health and peace and character education via trainings, and thousands more have embraced the techniques through her classic book Storytime Yoga: Teaching Yoga to Children Through Story (2006 The Mythic Yoga Studio, LLC Boulder, Colo.) which has sold 25,000 copies worldwide.
There are trained teachers across the United States, Mexico, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, N. Ireland, Cameroon West Africa, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Bermuda, Egypt, Turkey, India, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, The Philippines, The Netherlands, Norway, Germany, France, Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia.
Combining oral storytelling with yoga, the technique teaches children kinesthetically and enhances reading, writing, speaking, listening. It also teaches nutrition and health through yoga, as well as character and peace education via multicultural wisdom stories. The Storytime Yoga children's yoga DVD, The Peddler's Dream, appeared on PBS and won the Recommended Award from the National parenting Association in 2008. Storytime Yoga is also translated into Spanish.
Founded by Storyteller, Yoga Teacher and mother Sydney Solis after the tragic death of her husband, Storytime Yoga has appeared at the Yoga Journal Conference, Kripalu Center for Health, The Omega Institute, The National Association for the Education of Young Children, in Yoga Journal Magazine, Colorado Library Magazine, Colorado Parent Magazine, Light On Consciousness Magazine and more. Solis currently resides in Frederiksted, St. Croix, the USVI, where she raises her two children and runs the Storytime Yoga Children's Mission, bringing yoga and storytelling to children worldwide.
Solis can be reached at info@storytimeyoga.com, www.StorytimeYoga.com
She spent three years as a Spellbinder, volunteering to tell stories to public school children. Sydney has more than 375 hours of training in the Anusara tradition. She completed a 200-hour Anusara training with her teacher, Bhakti and Level I teacher training with Anusara founder John Friend. She continues to Immerse herself in Anusara and yoga therapy with senior teachers Jeanie Manchester and Anthony Bogart , and studies Yoga Nidra with SreeDevi Bringi. She studied storytelling with Laura Simms, Rebecca Armstrong, Susan Marie-Frontczak and Kate Lutz.
