Kids Yoga
Once again I am offering the Kids Yoga Camp for children aged 6-13. This year the camp will run July 12-16th, 10.30am-12.30pm at Corebody Studio, 3120 Highlands Blvd. North Vancouver. Cost for the week is $125.
Ten hours of yoga in which we will be exploring poses, philosophy, nutrition and anatomy and meditation. Registration deadline is June 31st. To register your child/children Please contact me at
A friend of mine sent “Keep Calm and Carry on” to me in an email the other day. I found it really resonated with me, and it became my mantra for the rest of that day. The following morning, I was watching a program on the “Food Network” which recreated the menus and provisions of war-time England. This was when I learnt that “Keep Calm and Carry on” was actually created and printed by the British Government in 1939 to instill confidence and strength in it’s nation. Seems it was never actually printed en-mass and forgotten about until someone discovered it in 2000 . Now it has been popularized internationally and can be found printed on everything from tea towels to tee-shirts.
Since every positive has a negative, like sukha and dukha in yoga, this image has now been reversed (as in the one above) and revived as well. You pick the one that rolls off your tongue and into your brain the best. My guess, it’s the one in the red……………
Sunday April 25th 2010 2-5PM
Yoga Moves, #120-1000 Roosevelt Cres. North Vancouver.
We will learn to take the confusion out of inversions and learn all the “upside-downs” of proper prop use, variations, and sequencing for poses such as shoulder stand, headstand, and plow pose. This will be a wonderful opportunity for you to build a safe and effective home-practice that will bring benefit and enjoyment to your Iyengar practice.
Cost is $40 and the workshop will be held at Yoga Moves, #120-1000 Roosevelt Cres. North Vancouver.
Can our kids get any more inquisitive? They are natural born yogi’s, we learn from them!
No one asked little Talulah Belle to do this pose, she just mimicked and it turned out to be such a special moment.
I would like to create an abundance of “yoga moments” with you and your children, and am leading a class for you with your child ages 0-5 starting next Tuesday Jan.12th 2010.
Class will be held at the Alchemy Center #3-431 Mountain Hwy in North Vancouver on Tuesdays from 9.30-10.30 am. The aim is for parents of tiny ones to get a practice in while babes rest on blankets, mats , or in seats, while the older children participate with us.
I will run the class on a drop-in basis for the first 5 weeks, and as a signed up course after the Olympics.
Please see my schedule on my website for more information.
email me for further info dhana@dhana.ca
My friend Tamara told me about the Good Stuff Connection Clothing Program in North Vancouver and I shop/donate there whenever possible. I was in the other day, when this book “Prescription for Nutritional Healing” by James and Phyllis Balch jumped out at me. It is a classic, well researched book that should be a part of everyone’s library. The price tag on it was $1.50, unbelievable. Snatched that one right up, and will be making a New Years donation to Sage Transition house next week. Here is some further information.
The Good Stuff Connection Clothing Program ensures that clean, good quality clothing, shoes, personal items and small household goods donated by the public are provided free of charge to women and children staying at SAGE Transition House and to men, women and children referred by other community social service agencies. The Good Stuff Connection is funded by donations from the community as well as the sales revenue from the Thrift Shop portion of the program.
Donations currently being accepted include: gently worn men’s, women’s and children’s clothing items and accessories, books, toys, and essential household items (such as towels, linens, glassware, cutlery, dishes, pots and pans). Toiletry items for SAGE Transition House are also accepted, as well as bus tickets (two zone and concession), grocery gift certificates and entertainment gift certificates for the women and children who are staying at SAGE Transition House.
Donations are accepted Tuesday to Friday from 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm and Saturdays from 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm at the front door of The Good Stuff Connection, 154 West 3rd Street, North Vancouver, BC V7M 1E8 (North side of the street between Lonsdale Avenue and Chesterfield. For further information, please call our recorded message at 604.987.1773. The Good Stuff Connection is closed on all statutory holidays
I used to roam the grassy hills of Burnaby Mountain as a small child, but haven’t been up there in ages! On this glorious morning, free of fog and mist, my mum and I bundled up my little one, and it was glorious up there. Burnaby Mountain is such a treasure, yet definately isn’t fully appreciated or utilized. Of course it is home to the famed Horizons Restaurant which seemed extremely busy this morning, but I had no idea the North Slope of Burnaby Mountain is home to the “Playground of the Gods” a wooden sculpture of about 50 Totems donated by Japanese artist Nobuo Toku . He is from the Ainu people of Northern Japan who have a very strong connection to nature and ancestral roots . A whale, an owl, a bear, this is an unbelievable piece of art framed in the backdrop of Vancouvers Burrard Inlet and snowcapped mountains. The south facing totems were heated by the suns rays this morning, and leaning against the wood of that ancient tree, my mother and my daughter beside me, I truly felt I was in Gods Playground. Check it out. This picture is taken by Skot Nelson.
Last week, while snorkeling with my daughter in Maui, we had such a magical, underwater experience. I was determined to see a green sea turtle, but wasn’t prepared to be so taken with a pair of squid. I’ve never seen squid on any of my snorkeling safaris , and I was amazed at how peaceful and communicative they were. They seemed to be a couple, floating side by side beneath me, looking at me with their big eyes, there is no way I will ever eat calamari again. Not after that connection! 
Right after the squid experience was another first, an octopus, fantastic. I would never have spotted it on my own, it was my daughters keen eye that pointed him out, camoflouged between the rocks and sand. Then, we looked up, and floating quietly above us was our friend, the sea turtle. I had to keep swimming backwards to keep a good distance away from it, so docile and friendly, that turtle had no qualms hanging with us snorklers!
And all within 10 minutes. The magic of this planet never ceases to fill me with wonder!
More proof! Kids love their yoga, it’s natural. Why wouldn’t they?
I have attended seminars with these lovely women before and highly recommend their work. The Gordon Neufeld approach to parenting is a wonderful one, and this looks like it will be a fantastic way to strengthen or learn about this parenting style. Mark your calendars and preregister, these talks draw huge crowds!
Date: Saturday November 14thTime: 9:30am to 12:30pm
Location: “Brainboost Tutoring” #270 - 3355 West Broadway, Vancouver
Cost: $60.00 To register: email Patti Drobot at pdrobot@shaw.ca
I discovered this wonderful program recently and cannot say enough about it, really. It is the most friendly, welcoming, educational, playful, nurturing place I have discovered. Located right beside Maplewood Farm in North Vancouver, their “Learning through Play” program offers children aged 0-6 and their often frazzled caregivers a place to learn, socialize, play and delight in. With toys, games, crafts, puzzles of every kind, for all ages of development, a bathroom complete with potties and trainer toilets, a fully equipped kitchen and a mind boggling assortment of teas and coffees for the adults, the edginess of life seeps away once you step inside this veritable “Goldilocks House”. There are a multitude of highly trained staff and vounteers to serve as eyes and ears, happily taking over for mums to regroup, parenting experts, librarians, dentists and other experts in their field who volunteer their time and expertise at this program. I myself led an impromptu preschool “Halloween Yoga” session this morning and it was Maaahhhhrvously” received.
This is the kind of program that provides the glue that brings a community together. The I Hope Centre truly delivers hope for a better future!The “I Hope Family Centre” IHFC . The I hope family centre was founded upon the recognition that all families need support regardless of their economic or social circumstances, and that such resources are particularly necessary during the early years.The centre reaches out to families who have difficulty accessing community services by allowing them to find the resources they need – right in their own neighbourhood.The I hope family centre is a multi-service family resource centre working to ensure that all North Shore families and their children under age 6, have access to innovative support and prevention programs from pregnancy through birth, to Kindergarten entry.
The proud recipient of the Family Service Canada Leadership Awards for “Programming with a National Impact,” the centre welcomes over 600 families each year.Research shows that parental isolation, lack of parent education, lack of child development knowledge and immigration are key factors that contribute to children being at risk for child abuse and neglect. Parents and caregivers most likely to have safe and healthy homes are those who have resources and supports that help them develop better knowledge about parenting and child development. Some of the service and programs offered include Learning Together Through Play, Parent-Child Mother Goose (Infant and Toddler Groups), Parent Education for the Early Years, Family Support Counselling, Breast Feeding Support Groups, and a Clothing Exchange.
