Aromatherapy For Kids!

A few weeks ago, I got an email from someone who is a good friend and a great massage therapist/acupressurist/aromatherapist. Her name is Sara Naomi and she's the owner of Therapeutic Calm, one of the practices that operates through the Rooted River Therapies consortium in Yardley.  It turned out that she was conducting her first aromatherapy class for kids! I was very excited to bring Rowan. She is already interested in 'good smells'. Lavender essential oils helped us all through some particularly rough sleeping patches, so she already had a bit of experience in her 4 1/2 years with the benefits of aromatherapy. 

We arrived at the class a little late. Am I the only mother who can never get anyplace on time? Anyhow, when we walked in, Sara was surrounded by kids ranging in age from 5-8 who couldn't take their eyes off of her. She was speaking to them in her gentle voice and showing them pictures of functioning and non-functioning cells. She taught them about olfactory nerves. She gave them tips on using scents to aid in studying and learning. She taught them about using oils to help with headaches and sore muscles. It was great. The kids and parents loved it. 

At the end of the class, each of the kids got to mix their own oil to take home. And Sara had made a delicious (and super healthy) coconut bar for a snack! It even had essential oils in it. 

This is the first time that I took Rowan to a class like this. It's actually the first time I've even heard of a class like this for children. I'm looking forward to attending more. It's nice to set a tone for holistic living at such a young age. And it was pretty great for her to be able to bring home a craft that wasn't made out of paper, straws & pipe cleaners. Nothing against paper, straws & pipe cleaner, but lavender-clove oil is a pretty nifty alternative. 

Here's to staying healthy & strong!

For more on Therepeutic Calm and all of the other cool things that Sara Naomi does, here's some links:

therapeuticcalm.net

stresslesstresses.com

You can also follow her under 'therapeutic calm' on facebook, instagram, etsy and pinterest. Or if you're interested in setting up a class with her, email her at therapeuticcalm@gmail.com. It's a great way for kids to learn something new either as part of a home school program or as a fun after school thing to do.

Go say hi to her at the Rooted River Therapies booth at the Yardley Harvest Festival this weekend. She may even have some treats for you.

Bucks County Library Tour: Part 6 - Riegelsville & Pipersville

Here are clips from the final two library shows of the tour! We played my home town library, Riegelsville, a great little library at the tipity top of Bucks County. A perfect crowd came out and we had a great time. We were even able to bring the parachute out for a song.
For some reason, this video clip didn't come through:( But stay posted for pictures! We had some friends taking them while we were playing.

This is our very last show at the tiniest library we've ever been to. Yay Pipersville!

We had such a great time over the past two weeks. Thank you to everyone who came to the shows. And we'll see you at all of our shows coming up!

Love Lolly & YoYo

Bucks County Library Tour: Part 5 - Morrisville, Fallsington, Southampton & Northampton

I can hardly believe that the tour is almost done! We lost our video from the Morrisville show. Booo! But we've got three cute videos from our other shows this week. Here they are!

We started with a small group in Fallsington, so we got to play one of our more intricate balancing and sorting games with noodles and baskets. Now if I can just use this technique to clean my house...

Our Southampton show was in the midst of a crazy rain storm, but that didn't dampen our spirits.

Northampton library was the first place that we ever played a kids show together! My, how things have changed since then. Anyhow, we visited a rainforest at this show since it was raining outside. YoYo is catching raindrops with the kids in this clip.

Bucks County Library Tour: Part 4 - Wrightstown & Glenside

As we embark on our second week of the Bucks County Library Tour, we just wanted to share some quick shots from Saturday's shows!
Here we are at Wrightstown Library. There are some shots here of our 'moon rock hockey' game that we've been playing. The kids are learning about how to use equipment while YoYo is learning a little bit about outerspace!

And here we are at the Glenside Library for their Summer Reading Wrap Party. It's not in Bucks County, but I wanted to share this clip along with the other videos we've been taking. What a great library! They have a vegetable garden outside. And there were all sorts of cool crafts and projects for the kids to do at this event. Fun! This video is showing a little bit of our 'rainbow fishing' game where the kids throw tie-died socks through a hula hoop. 

Bucks County Library Tour: Part 3 - Levittown, Yardley, Langhorne, Lower Southampton

We're having so much fun on our library tour! We did 4 shows in one day! Yikes! Thanks to all of the great venues and the lovely audiences, we were having to much fun to think about how busy we were. 

Here's a snippet from Levittown:

Here's a clip from Yardley:

Here we are at Langhorne:

And, the grand finale at Lower Southampton:

We're still going! Doylestown and New Hope next. If you want to see any of our upcoming shows, check out our events on LollyandYoYo.com

Bucks County Library Tour: Part 2 - Quakertown and Perkasie

Here 's a pic from our show at the Quakertown Library. Scarf games!:

And here's a video of our Perkasie Library show. Noodles!:

Buck County Library Tour: Part 1 - Warminster, Bristol (Grundy) and Bensalem

We have begun our 10 day whirl-wind tour of the Bucks County Libraries as part of their 'Kindergarten Here We Come' series. These are some of the craziest weeks that we have all year, but we love every minute of it. We thought that we would give you a window into our lives during these shows. Stay tuned each day for more pictures & videos.

Here we are at the Warminster Library! Our first show of the tour!

This is from the Grundy Library in Bristol, PA. I always feel like I'm meeting James Bond when I come to this library because of it's subterranean design.

And here is a snippet from our show at the Bensalem Library.