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Teaching at Every Mat Workshop at Be Here Now Yoga

Join Karen Walsh, owner of Be Here Now Yoga, in Flemington, on October 27 and 28 to discover the connection between your learning and teaching styles through the Theory of Multiple Intelligence. In this workshop, yoga teachers will examine the nine intelligences, explore different learning styles and learn how to engage students in their yoga class.

Howard Gardner identifies nine different intelligences which include visual, special, auditory and logical. Commonly practiced in elementary and high school classrooms, teaching to multiple intelligences provides a broader brush to teach more students in a class setting, which can be easily applied to the yoga classroom.

Learn new ways to engage students through the subtle energy body, take your students through the koshas and balance the doshas. Develop sequences with powerful language cues to involve students and create a community of learners on the mat. Eligible for 15 YA CEU’s.

Karen Walsh, RYT-500, E-RYT 200, has been teaching in the nontraditional classroom for over 30 years and strives to create meaningful lessons that address multiple intelligences and diverse learners.

Location: Be Here Now Yoga, 63 Main Street, Suite 202, Flemington. For more information, email [email protected] or call 908-642-0989. BeHereNowYoga108.com.

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Tick Talk

Spring officially sprung on March 21. We have turned our clocks ahead. We are looking forward to warm winds, sunny skies and the smell of fresh cut grass. The daffodils and tulips have recently bloomed and we are just starting with the yard work that comes with the warmer weather.  Sadly, another season has started ramping up.  Tick season.

•             The best form of protection is prevention. Educating oneself about tick activity and how our behaviors overlap with tick habitats is the first step.

•             According to the NJ DOH, in 2022 Hunterdon County led the state with a Lyme disease incidence rate of 426 cases per 100,000 people. The fact is ticks spend approximately 90% of their lives not on a host but aggressively searching for one, molting to their next stage or over-wintering. This is why a tick remediation program should be implemented on school grounds where NJ DOH deems high risk for tick exposure and subsequent attachment to human hosts.

•             Governor Murphy has signed a bill that mandates tick education in NJ public schools. See this for the details.  Tick education must now be incorporated into K-12 school curriculum. See link:

https://www.nj.gov/education/broadcasts/2023/sept/27/TicksandTick-BorneIllnessEducation.pdf

•             May is a great month to remind the public that tick activity is in full swing. In New Jersey, there are many tickborne diseases that affect residents, including Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease, Powassan, and Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis.

•             For years, the focus has mainly been about protecting ourselves from Lyme disease. But other tick-borne diseases are on the rise in Central Jersey. An increase of incidence of Babesia and Anaplasma are sidelining people too. These two pathogens are scary because they effect our blood cells. Babesia affects the red blood cells and Anaplasma effects the white blood cells.

•             Ticks can be infected with more than one pathogen. When you contract Lyme it is possible to contract more than just that one disease. This is called a co-infection. It is super important to pay attention to your symptoms. See link.

https://twp.freehold.nj.us/480/Disease-Co-Infection

A good resource from the State:

https://www.nj.gov/health/cd/topics/tickborne.shtml

 

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