Educators
You want the best for your student's success and happiness outside of the classroom as well as in your classroom. I certainly did with my students.
You will learn the tools and practices where you can teach students in sessions ranging from one to ten minutes. These steps won't take much time in your day or impede upon your instruction time but will guide them to build a Rolodex that will last them a lifetime (wow who uses those anymore?!). Just like muscle memory, we have brain memory that we need to train. YOU will know as an educator that you gave them tools to breathe, visualize, and move to create a more confident and calmer student. This will help your students during test time, daily instruction, and how to better cope during high anxiety moments in life.
As an educator, you will find the benefits to your own health and wellness. When you practice what you preach, your students will create that inner belief. Your passion and dedication will generate the same energy within your students. Doesn't this bring you back to your "why" for teaching? I know it did for me after 15 years as an educator.
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Learn more on what Solsken Wellness can do to enhance your well-being as well as your students!
Mindfulness
Mindfulness is being present in the moment, focusing on the present instead of the past. This practice helps students develop strategies and techniques that can calm the nervous system and restore executive functioning.
Social-emotional learning (SEL) is a process that involves acquiring and applying knowledge and skills to develop healthy identities and manage emotions.
With CPTSD and ACES being further recognized in school demographics, Mindfulness tools are now recognized as essential for the classroom. By learning simple breathing and visualization techniques, students will soon be able to ease anxiety and build confidence towards managing their stress and monitoring focus. I will review what worked best for the students during my time in the classroom as well as help educators attach mindfulness and body movement to easily track goal setting.
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Yoga
Yoga in the classroom can easily be done with repetition and confidence.
Whether it be movement in their seats, on the floor, or standing by their desks, your classroom can become a space of healing for students. Yoga poses can also help create positive energy and blood flow to the central nervous system which enhances executive functioning. You will learn what each pose means that gives students agency over their bodies and minds.
Integrative Health & Wellness
You can not control the toxicants outside of your home or office that negatively impact your endocrine system. But you can make safe, inexpensive changes in your living space and workplace. We will review the harmful toxicants in products, environmental toxicants, water, food/pesticides, and air quality while providing alternative ways to help change to a healthier you and a safer workplace for your co-workers, teammates and classroom.
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Despite widespread use of the term “natural” and “organic” on personal care products and food, the Food and Drug Administration has never legally defined the term and has no regulations on usage. What you may think is for natural or organic products and food base, may not always match the manufacturers’ use of the term. A 2008 study performed by the Organic Consumers Association found that an undisclosed carcinogenic petrochemical ingredient in more than 40% of all products tested that claimed to be “natural”. In 2016, the Federal Trade Commission filed complaints against four companies that marketed their personal care products as “all natural” or “100% natural” Even though the products contained a number of synthetic ingredients. Currently, more than 80,000 chemicals are legally allowed in this country. The vast majority of which have not been vetted for safety to human or environmental health. Prior to 1976, when the Toxic Substances Control Act took effect, 60,000 chemicals, that is 2 out of every 3 chemicals were "grandfathered" in! #themoreyouknow #letslearn
Enhance your life, ignite what's best for you, and grow on your own terms.
In a classroom setting, this program allows overall wellness to be priority, creating a safe space for personal development and growth. Traditionally, one would think that academics should come first, but this program helps one realize that if our bodies and minds are not well first then the other aspects of life become mundane, almost irrelevant.
This program provided me with tools to be intentional with my body, spirit and mind. From smaller tools like daily positive affirmations to bigger tools such as self advocacy. For me, putting in an intentional effort into my well being has allowed me to learn more about myself and deepen my appreciation for life, overall making life more enjoyable and purposeful. In class, I have seen students become more comfortable with being honest and vocal about their own needs. More importantly, I have seen their view on life expand, as they are more open and self aware."
-Kim Rodriguez