parent briefs Learn to teach children’s yoga
Mission gets new MRI goggles for kids
Asheville Yoga Center will offer a children’s yoga teacher training and certification workshop Aug. 2-4. Instructor Jane Anne Tager founded Pretzel Kids Yoga and teaches kids’ yoga classes throughout Asheville. The curriculum will include how to teach children with different learning styles, how to choose age appropriate activities, how to create lesson plans, how to improvise based on the group’s needs, how to adapt yoga instruction for different environments, how to incorporate stories, music, and dance, and more. Tager will also demonstrate effective strategies for managing behavior by creating a loving, supportive and noncompetitive environment. The training weekend is considered advanced yoga studies and is appropriate for yoga teachers, school teachers with yoga experience, and serious students of yoga. Registration is required. To learn more about the program and to register, visit www.youryoga.com or call 254-0380.
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Any parent knows how hard it is to get a child to remain still for a family photo. Now, imagine trying to get a child to stay completely motionless for 15 minutes, or even 90 minutes, for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan. This is the challenge pediatric radiologists at Mission Health faced every day, until they were given a special tool to improve the quality of children’s MRI experiences. With funding from the Berger Health Foundation of Palm Desert, Calif., through the Mission Foundation, Mission Children’s Hospital now offers state-of-the-art “pediatric goggles” to young patients. Cinemavision goggles resemble a video game headset and enable a child to watch a favorite movie during an MRI scan. This allows a child to relax and stay still for longer periods of time, accomplishing two important goals — increasing the accuracy and clarity of the high-resolution images that are used for diagnosis and treatment, and making the procedure a little less scary for young patients. The Cinemavision goggles may also prevent the need for sedation.
Several school supply drives around WNC School supply drives are taking place around WNC as the new school year approaches. Eblen Foundation’s Tools for Schools will collect supplies at Ingles on Tunnel Road from 4:30 a.m.-7 p.m. Aug. 8. Salvation Army is collecting children’s clothing for back to school. Drop off donations, during business hours, at one of four locations: Salvation Army Family Store, 1076 Patton Ave., West Asheville; Salvation Army Family Store, 2247 Hendersonville Road, Arden; Salvation Army Center-of-Hope, 204 Haywood St., Asheville; Salvation Army donation drop boxes around town. In early August, clothing will be distributed for free (one outfit of three garments) to kids ages 4-12 at these locations. Boys & Girls Clubs of America and Staples are teaming up for the sixthannual Staples for Students national school supply drive. Through Sept. 28, customers can donate $1 or more at the Staples store on Merrimon Avenue, with 100 percent of the proceeds benefiting local students at the Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club of Buncombe County.
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