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Yoga ~ Teaching Kids to Relate with Compassion

Jul 3, 2015 | Uncategorized

Michelle Fury, Yoga Therapist at Children’s Hospital, Colorado, reflects on the intention behind International Yoga Day and the impact of yoga on issues of global concern. Yoga’s popularity has increased on a global scale. Recently the United Nations...

‘The time has come for the integration of yoga into child mental health treatment.’

Jun 1, 2015 | Mind-body Medicine, Uncategorized, Yoga

In her foreword to Michelle Fury’s newly published book Marianne Z. Wamboldt, MD, RYT, Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, University of Colorado, School of Medicine, explains her belief and experience that it is time for yoga to be recognised as a...

Teaching Pilates to Children and Adolescents

Apr 10, 2014 | Pilates

Dawn-Marie Ickes MPT, PMA®-CPT, CNT, VMP, CST, NASM®-YES shares her experience of Pilates from receiving Pilates treatment as a 13 year old, through learning to enjoy and value Pilates, onto developing a fully fledged program for teaching Pilates to children and young...

A ground-breaking collaboration

Aug 15, 2013 | Pilates

‘First educate the child.’ Joseph Pilates (1883-1967) Elizabeth Anderson, Executive Director of the Pilates Method Alliance shares her excitement about the PMA’s collaboration with Handspring Publishing which will see publication in early 2014 of...