The OHMazing® Way with Beth Reese, PhD

Rebecca Connors, Yoga On and Off the Mat, and Being a Mindful Montessori Leader

Episode Summary

“I’d been through a trauma… and felt like I don’t know what’s going on, what did I do wrong, I don’t deserve this, and then yoga kicked in… and then I began to realize the gratitude.” ~Rebecca Connors Join podcast host, Beth Reese, PhD, E-RYT, RCYT, and Montessori leader, Rebecca Connors, RYT, RCYT, and Head of School at Sugar Creek Montessori School, on a journey through grief and trauma, finding and practicing yoga on and off the mat, and integrating mindfulness into her school and family life. Learn practical tools to take into your studio, classroom and home! Rebecca has served as a Montessori teacher for 10 years and in administration for 20 years. She is the mother of 3 adult kids, and grandma to one. Rebecca is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) and has her Registered Children’s Yoga Teacher credential through Yogiños: Yoga for Youth®. Connect with Rebecca: Email: rdw196524@gmail.com FB: https://www.facebook.com/rebecca.hollingsworth.96 Sugar Creek Montessori School: http://www.sugarcreekmontessori.com/ Connect with Beth: Email: elizreese@gmail.com Cell: +1 361 563 7448 Facebook: personal: www.facebook.com/elizreese Facebook: Yogiños: Yoga for Youth®: www.facebook.com/yoginos/ Instagram: yoginosyogaforyouth: www.instagram.com/yoginosyogaforyouth Twitter: @yoginos: twitter.com/Yoginos LinkedIn: Beth Reese, PhD

Episode Notes

“I’d been through a trauma… and felt like I don’t know what’s going on, what did I do wrong, I don’t deserve this, and then yoga kicked in… and then I began to realize the gratitude.”
~Rebecca Connors

Join podcast host, Beth Reese, PhD, E-RYT, RCYT, and Montessori leader, Rebecca Connors, RYT, RCYT, and Head of School at Sugar Creek Montessori School, on a journey through grief and trauma, finding and practicing yoga on and off the mat, and integrating mindfulness into her school and family life. Learn practical tools to take into your studio, classroom and home! Rebecca has served as a Montessori teacher for 10 years and in administration for 20 years. She is the mother of 3 adult kids, and grandma to one. Rebecca is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) and has her Registered Children’s Yoga Teacher credential through Yogiños: Yoga for Youth®.

Discover how yoga is a practice to explore on and off the yoga mat and how Rebecca uses it as an intentional way of living, including:
~ Realizing what’s present
~ Holding space for the emotions and thoughts to show up
~ Allowing the emotions and thoughts to be there
~ Letting them go!

Learn more about the benefits of a Montessori education and how mindfulness can be integrated into traditional and Montessori classrooms, Principal Offices and entire schools. Rebecca shares the importance of treating the child with the same respect you would to an adult, and practical ideas for how to employ yoga-based self-regulation.

Connect with Rebecca:
Email: rdw196524@gmail.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/rebecca.hollingsworth.96
Sugar Creek Montessori School: http://www.sugarcreekmontessori.com/

Connect with Beth:
Email: elizreese@gmail.com
Cell: +1 361 563 7448
Facebook: personal: www.facebook.com/elizreese
Facebook: Yogiños: Yoga for Youth®: www.facebook.com/yoginos/
Instagram: yoginosyogaforyouth: www.instagram.com/yoginosyogaforyouth
Twitter: @yoginos: twitter.com/Yoginos
LinkedIn: Beth Reese, PhD