Love Yourself. Love Your Earth. Love Each Other.

Love Yourself. Love Your Earth. Love Each Other

Teaching Educational Interactive stories, games ,songs and crafts about the environment, self esteem and good physical and emotional health to children is  a richly rewarding experience for me.  As a home school teacher I've used interactive methods for over 20 years. The children are challenged to participate physically and intellectually.  When they walk away knowing they have helped to create something, the lessons they've learned are also more likely to stay with them.  

Ayurvedic Medicine ( of which yoga is a part) is  a preventative medicine practice.  To care for yourself is to take the time to learn what you need to do in order to be healthy and happy.  This type of self love has a big impact on your life and the lives of people around you.  Often parents tell me all the reasons they don't have time for simple self care like soaking their feet or keeping a regular exercise routine.  There is one major reason they should make time--the examples you set are some of the most important lessons you will ever teach your child.  
When children see parents taking a time out for themselves , it becomes ingrained within them that this is an appropriate way to behave. This passive lesson becomes a part of the child's life, then future and like magic you have produced a healthier child. 

Care of our relationship with our Earth and Our fellow humans follow the same principle.  The problems in our environment today that I address in the Environmental News  Magazine ; The Shanti Sun,  are a result of our failure to understand the importance of building and maintaining relationship with our home, our planet.  
When we start showing our babies from their earliest stages of development that this relationship is important to us and all humans , plants and creatures on Earth,it becomes second nature to them and again, like magic we have produced a healthier planet.   

The 1300 mile walk for Earth and Peace that my family participated in in March and April of this year brought together the concepts of caring for earth and the concept of caring for each other as one.  Who wants to live on the planet alone?   When disaster strikes we are all struck by it.  Our first thoughts during natural and unnatural disaster are usually 1st are my loved ones safe and then, how many in my neighborhood, city, country and planet have been lost?   If only we can maintain this concern on a daily basis!  Love one another every day and conflicts from the most interpersonal to the most global can become a thing of the past--yes , like magic we can produce healthier human relationships too.  

On this most significant day when many still grieve the tragic loss of so much life let us each vow to do better in our own lives in all these areas and pass it on. 

Peace and Love

Mama Yogi