Designed to spark the imagination and enhance creativity, the guided exercises and fun-filled suggestions in this innovative book integrate elements of writing with simple movements and yoga principles to create a safe and joyful learning experience. The book combines writing tasks with basic physical movements that are easy to incorporate into classroom instruction. Useful and inspiring for students and teachers alike, the book is committed to getting kids writing and playing with words and ideas. It challenges teachers to refresh their teaching of writing, inspire students, and find the fun in everyday learning.
How can teachers make their literacy classrooms a place of joy? Fun, caring, and passion are the keys to a shame-free, healthy classroom that nurtures students in mind, body, and spirit. Full of simple strategies and activities for building community, this practical book is committed to promoting strong literacy skills. It illustrates concrete ways to build mindful classrooms where students are free to speak with compassion, write with conviction, and read with joy.
Artful Collaborative Inquiry comprises essays created collectively by a group of scholars and artists, the majority of whom have several decades of experience of working together. The book challenges commonly-held, individualistic beliefs about ownership, authorship and scholarly and artistic ethics and practices. The essays exemplify the entangled kinds of scholarly and artistic works that emerge in a post-human world, where humans, other species, environments, things and other matters, all matter and are of equal concern in the conduct of ethical artful scholarship. Situated at the (messy) crossroads where contemporary scholarship and artistic practice converge, the seamless mo(ve)ment and interplay between text and image make up the main body of the work in this book. The chapters combine the playful use and merging of time, space and place, researcher and researched, to give a unique exemplar of research and creativity in the rapidly emerging field of collaborative scholarship. It will be of particular interest to creative and qualitative scholars wishing to conduct more artful research, and artists engaging with scholarship.
A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020 Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR “A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe—and how we’ve all been doing it wrong for a long, long time.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic and Eat Pray Love No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren’t found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of São Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe. Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is. Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.
This is a book of poems written for readers to share life's experiences, fantasies, and thoughts. It is about growth: grasping the awe from every moment in life. Some poems based on real life situations and some pure imagination. They were written so that all can understand. Everyone has had highs and lows in life. I hope my readers will be able to enjoy also taking something away with them from my poetry.
The Writer's Journal Workbook is a lively prompt for creative writers looking for help in setting themselves regular creative tasks, goals and challenges. Packed with step-by-step activities, advice and suggestions, the writer is guided through practical exercises and encouraged to put pen to paper. Are you stuck in a writing rut and don't know how to move forward? Do you lack a daily routine and need a structure to set daily or weekly writing time for yourself? Do you want somewhere to gather your writing ideas and scribbles together in one place? This workbook is the perfect place for the budding writer who wants a spark of inspiration, to sharpen their ideas and perfect their skills at their own pace. The workbook is composed around a series of have-a-go exercises with ample space (double spread) for the user to write and doodle in. This Journal Workbook will become the must-have companion for creatives on the go.
Reduce stress and anxiety, increase your productivity, detox your body, balance your health, and find the path to greater mindfulness with this collection of signature breathing techniques by the world’s leading breathmaster, Dan Brulé. What if you could control your outcomes and change results simply by controlling your breath? Now you can. In this definitive handbook, world-renown pioneer of breathwork Dan Brulé shares for the first-time his Breath Mastery technique that has helped more than 100,000 people in over forty-five countries. Just Breathe is a simple and revolutionary guide that reveals the secret behind what the elite athletes, champion martial artists, Navy SEAL warriors, and spiritual yogis have always known—when you control your breathing you can control your state of well-being and level of performance. So if you want to optimize your health, clear and calm your mind, and spark peak performance—the secret to unlock and sustain these results comes from a free and natural resource that’s right under your nose. From high stress, critical situations to everyday challenges, Just Breathe will show you how to harness your awareness and conscious breathing to benefit your body, mind, and spirit. Breathwork benefits a wide range of issues including: managing acute/chronic pain; help with insomnia, weight loss, attention deficit, anxiety, depression, PTSD, and grief; improves intuition, creativity, mindfulness, self-esteem, leadership, and much more. Just Breathe will show you the skills and tools to breathe your way to optimum health, ultimate potential, and peak performance.
Over the last fifty years, Canada's public schools have been absorbed into a modern education system that functions much like Max Weber's infamous iron cage. Crying out for democratic school-level reform, the system is now a centralized, bureaucratic fortress that, every year, becomes softer on standards for students, less accessible to parents, further out of touch with communities, and surprisingly unresponsive to classroom teachers. Exploring the nature of the Canadian education order in all its dimensions, The State of the System explains how public schools came to be so bureaucratic, confronts the critical issues facing kindergarten to grade 12 public schools in all ten provinces, and addresses the need for systemic reform. Going beyond a diagnosis of the stresses, strains, and ills present in the system, Paul Bennett proposes a bold plan to re-engineer schools on a more human scale as the first step in truly reforming public education. In place of school consolidation and managerialism, one-size-fits-all uniformity, limited school choice, and the "success-for-all" curriculum, Bennett advocates for a new set of priorities: decentralize school governance, deprogram education ministries and school districts, listen to parents and teachers, and revitalize local education democracy. Tackling the thorny issues besetting contemporary school systems in Canada, The State of the System issues a clarion call for more responsive, engaged, and accountable public schools.
An essential guide to mindfulness activities and strategies that help students cultivate the skills they need for self-regulation, stress management, and learning. Simple activities and practices throughout the book are designed to strengthen areas of the brain that allow students to better manage their attention, emotions, and behavior. This comprehensive resource shows you how to incorporate mindfulness in your classroom practice in just minutes a day. It offers step-by-step instructions, activity sheets, ready-to-use templates, and much more. This highly readable book includes stories from teachers who successfully incorporate mindfulness in their classroom practice.
Color version. EFT is an Easy Type of Chinese Acupressure, Puncture without Needles or Hard Pressure. EFT is applied by 'TAPPING', activating energy points, meridians on/in the body with the fingertips. Tapping removes energy blocks, (stuck, stagnant energy), orients, 'polarizes', corrects, balances and strengthens the energy flow in the body, through the Meridians/Energy Pathways, Energy Points, Chakras, Nervous System. (Electric, Chi and other Energies, Physical and Spiritual.) Tai Chi, Qi Gong, Karate Energy Control Methods are related to EFT. EFT removes negative, destructive emotions, thoughts, feelings, stress from the mind/brain, system by correcting energy flow. The body's energies flow correct and strengthen. EFT balances and improves function of the left and right brain hemispheres. This produces good health, clear eyesight. Neck, chest, shoulder, eye muscle tension, stiff, infrequent eye 'shifting' movements, headaches, strain in the mind/brain, negative, unhappy past/present thoughts, emotions, experiences, blocked energy flow, lowered liver/kidney health, staring, squinting cause unclear eyesight. Negative, destructive thoughts, emotions, worry are a common cause of mental strain, back, chest, shoulder, neck, eye muscle tension and unclear eyesight. Lowered eyesight increases worry, mental strain, which then increases the body.., neck, eye muscle tension. Eye function is impaired. Light rays focus incorrect in the eye. Circulation to/in the eye lowers. Vision is more unclear. EFT, Nutrition, Natural Eyesight Improvement corrects these conditions; Blocked energy (experienced during a stressful event) happens first, before the negative emotions occur and locks them into the mind/body. Negative thoughts, emotions maintain blocked energy flow. Removing blocked energy first results in removal of the negative emotions, thoughts, feelings and often brings instant clear eyesight. As EFT Tapping removes energy blocks, corrects the energy flow, resulting in removal of negative emotions, thoughts, feelings; the person can then place positive, constructive thoughts into the mind, system; think, feel in a positive, constructive way about the past or present stressful event. Positive thoughts, emotions help to correct and strengthen the body's energy flow. Correct energy flow is now maintained. Mental and physical health improve, eye function returns to normal, eyesight is 20/20 and clearer at all distances, close and far. Health of body organs, systems improve as energy flows correct throughout the body. EFT improves the function of the brain, visual cortex, left and right brain hemisphere activation, integration. This improves function of the brain with the eyes, retina, eye muscles and body. Eyesight and mental, physical health improve. Memory, imagination, math, science, speech, learning, creativity, art, music.., skills - all functions of the brain, left and right hemispheres even the oldest, deep survival areas of the brain improve. This is a main treatment of Natural Eyesight Improvement. 20 free PDF E-Books: Natural Eyesight (Vision) Improvement Training+Do It Yourself-Natural Eyesight Improvement-Original and Modern Bates Method+Better Eyesight Magazine by Ophthalmologist William H. Bates - (Unedited, Full Set -132 Magazine Issues - 11 Years-July, 1919 to June, 1930.) Illustrated with 500 Pictures and additional, up to date Modern Natural Eyesight Improvement Training.+ Original Better Eyesight Magazine by Ophthalmologist William H. Bates - Photo copy of all his Original Antique Magazine Pages in the 1900's Print. All of William H. Bates, Clark Night Books included in the PDF.Video and Audio lessons.Read this book on Kindle. See William H. Bates, Author's Page, for Video of internal book pages, full description of the Paperback, Kindle and 20 free E-books; https://cleareyesight-batesmethod.info/
