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Susan Kramer

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  - Yoga for all Kids by Susan Kramer -
  15 easy moving yoga poses and 4 types of meditation,
plus 12 short chapters about how to live social skills,
and a dictionary of 40 definitions for happiness.
83 pages with illustrations.

Soft Cover Book


Yoga For All Kids by Susan Kramer

- Meditation for all Kids by Susan Kramer -

  How to teach sitting, walking, dance, relaxation, instant, music,
running, swinging, biking and swimming meditations,
plus a chapter of guided meditations on virtues,
and a chapter of affirmations, inspirations and prayers.
For tots to teens of all abilities. 100 pages with illustrations.

Soft Cover Book

Meditation for all Kids by Susan Kramer

contents
I. Dance Series
II. Meditation/Spirituality/Yoga Series
III. Hand Signing; Fingerspelling; One-Hand Alphabet
 
I. Dance Series

Dance Home Page http://www.xs4all.nl/~sustan/dance.html

texts

1) © 1998 Free to Move - Body-Mind Rhythmic Movement 1.  the main reference text in the series: rhythmic patterns, theory, basic lesson plan  http://www.susankramer.com/moving.html

2) © 1999 A Child's Book for Learning 16 Rhythmic Dance Steps 2. 16 basic rhythmic dance steps and simple dances with translations below http://www.xs4all.nl/~sustan/clapping.html

English and Dutch http://www.xs4all.nl/~sustan/klappen.html
English and Dutch (Dance Meditation)  http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art27118.asp
English and French http://www.susankramer.com/frapper.html
English and German http://www.susankramer.com/klatschen.html
English and Spanish http://www.susankramer.com/palmadas.html

3) © 2000 Rhythmic Movement for Toddlers and Preschoolers basic lesson plan, rhythms, exercises and mini-lessons  http://www.susankramer.com/Toddlers.html

4) © 2001 Rhythmic Dances for Children and Adults several dances, progressively more advanced   http://www.susankramer.com/Dances.html

5) © 2001 Adaptive Rhythmic Movement for Children to Seniors gentle rhythmic movements and exercises for all ages and ranges of mobility http://www.susankramer.com/Adaptive.html

6) © 2001 Combinations of Basic Rhythmic Movements with Clapping ABA sequencing in combinations of basic rhythmic movements  http://www.susankramer.com/combinations.html

7) © 2001 Singing while Dancing to Learn Basic Math rhythmic songs and patterns to music; midi files included  http://www.susankramer.com/singing.html

8) © 2001 Body-Mind Mini Lessons for Learning Academic Concepts brief lessons incorporating the body-mind into learning basic academics are now in this text:  http://www.susankramer.com/moving.html

9) © 2001 What Is Somatic Education for Children? a brief essay about somatic body-mind education for children  http://www.susankramer.com/somatic.html

10) © 2001 Dance Sculptures in Paris photography from Le Louvre, Musée Rodin, Musée D'Orsay, Paris, France http://www.susankramer.com/parisdance.html

11) © 2001 Dances for Preschoolers rhythmic and creative dances to songs for preschoolers  http://www.susankramer.com/preschooldances.html

12) © 2002 Classical Ballet Beginning to Advanced presented in 8 levels beginning age 6 http://www.xs4all.nl/~sustan/ballet.html

13)  Carol Lynn, Dancer and Educator Extraordinaire brief biography of the first lady of dance in Baltimore, Maryland http://www.susankramer.com/carollynn.html

14) © 2002 Tarentelle several folk dances
http://www.susankramer.com/tarentelle.html

15) © 2002 Folk Dancing in the Netherlands;Volksdansen in Nederland photography with descriptions in English and Dutch http://www.xs4all.nl/~sustan/folkdance.html
 
II. Meditation/Spirituality/Yoga Series

**Moving Meditation for Children located at my meditation site at BellaOnline.com http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art14329.asp

1) © 2000 Guided Meditation for Children several guided meditations for children
http://www.susankramer.com/ChildMeditation.html

2) © 2000 Radiant Yoga for Children, Preschool to Age 12 15 moving poses, 3 meditations, dictionary of hints for happiness
http://www.susankramer.com/Yoga.html

3)  © 2002 Spirituality for Children Interfaith and Ecumenical prayer, interfaith service, essays about several virtues http://www.susankramer.com/spirituality.html

4) © 2001 Dance Meditation for all Ages and Abilities exercises, dance, meditations, suggested music http://www.susankramer.com/dancemeditation.html

5)  © 2003 Poems, Prayers and Verses for Children writings for living in peace and harmony  http://www.susankramer.com/childverses.html

translations ... 

Dutch

6) © 2002 Meditation for Children of all ages; Meditatie voor kinderen van alle leeftijden http://www.xs4all.nl/~sustan/kindermeditatie.html

7) © 2004 Dance Meditation; Anneke en Hans leren een dansmeditatie in het park  http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art27118.asp

8) ©  2002 Yoga Poses for Children; Yoga voor kinderen http://www.xs4all.nl/~sustan/yoganederlands.html

French

9) © 2002  Meditation and Yoga Poses for children; Yoga pour les enfants; Postures et Méditation http://www.susankramer.com/yogafrancais.html

German

10) © 2001 Meditation for Children of all Ages; Meditation für Kinder jeden Alters http://www.susankramer.com/kindermeditation.html

Greek

11) © 2003 Radiant Yoga for Children in Greek http://www.susankramer.com/yogagreek.html

Spanish

12) © 2002 Meditation for Children; Meditación para niños http://www.susankramer.com/meditacion.html

13) ©2002 Yoga Poses for Children; Yoga Posturas en movimiento para niños http://www.susankramer.com/yogaespanol.html

14) ©  2003 Espiritualidad para Niños http://www.susankramer.com/spiritualityespanol.html
 
III. Hand Signing; Fingerspelling; One-Hand Alphabet


1) © 2001 Hand Signing; Fingerspelling; One-Hand Alphabet making the case to learn one-hand fingerspelling; photos of alphabet included with links to fingerspelling in several languages. It is now in Part VI of this text http://www.susankramer.com/moving.html
 
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1. A reference copy resides in the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, CALL# MGSB 00-1561.
2. A reference copy resides in the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, CALL# MGSB 00-1562.

'Active in Love
by actions of Love'

Books for teaching toddlers to teens by Susan Kramer