Rainbow Dreams and Art Blog

Welcome to Rainbow Dreams and Art, a place dedicated to teaching yoga and yoga philosophy to children and teens of all ability levels, through art, writing and storytelling! This is a welcoming, healing place for adults too, as I love it when families share in yoga and and the creative process together, bringing peace, joy and healing to their lives. This site is inspired by my teachers: especially Lynn Shuck, Sydney Solis, Kari Tomashik and Frank English; my children: Olena, Lina and Vlady; my friends, and ALL of my students.

Lisa Calice, RYT

I am a yoga teacher, artist, and mother of three teens! The moment I met my children, my entire life changed forever…I was embarking on a journey into world, and stories, and adventures I could not have imagined! Nearly nine years after becoming a mom to my three children, I have done so many things that it would be impossible to list them all here. I am a yoga teacher and yogic storyteller, sharing yoga, art and story to children, teens and adults. I have been a home school mom for five years now; and it is quite a challenge, but a great opportunity to teach my own children, as well as others. Currently, I spend most of my time studying and teaching yoga, art, and art history, which I love! I have taught yoga, art, and history for our home school group, and I teach yoga and art classes at the YMCA. I especially enjoy integrating yoga, art, and storytelling and writing together.

My life has changed again, through meeting and studying with an amazing yoga teacher and storyteller, Sydney Solis. I have been using her book, “Storytime Yoga, Teaching Yoga to Children Through Story,” for about two years now, and have studied with Sydney since October, 2007. I have just joined the League of Yogic Storytellers, and will continue on this journey of yoga and story. If you are familiar with Sydney’s teachings, you will see how she has influenced me, my art, my teaching.

As an artist who has experienced a world that does not often encourage children (or adults) to explore their creative brain through art, I knew I wanted to help change that for my children and their generation. When I first began teaching art, I would almost constantly hear children say, “I can’t draw,” “I am not an artist,” “I don’t know what to do,” or “I hate art,” and this would usually be followed by a LOT of erasing, and inevitably by a continuous procession to the garbage can! Right away, kids learn in my class that we don’t throw away our art! We don’t erase! Mistakes are lessons, and often they are gifts! Some of my best work has come from when I thought I had made a mistake.

I hope to share what I know, what works for me, for my own children, and my students, and make the world a brighter, friendlier, more creative place through art! Our children need to access their creativity to find their way through a complicated, ever-changing world. Our world needs more creative, flexible, peaceful leaders. Art can only enhance the skills we all need to have healthy, happy lives. We are all creating every day of our lives, we are all artists!

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