Oct 15 - 19

Another busy week here at Ranchlands School.  Last week many teachers worked with our Area 1 specialists (complex needs, speech pathologist, physical therapist, occupational therapist) to create new goals for all of our students who are on an individualized program plan (IPP).  These documents will be coming home this week and is your child does have an IPP, you have the opportunity to have a discussion about the document with your child's teacher.

This Friday we are excited to start "Try Something New". All teachers were asked to create an activity/ lesson around something they are passionate about and would like to share with the students at Ranchlands.  Mrs. Lytviak and myself will be running a yoga and meditation session for division I students.  We were excited to see over 40 students sign up to join us.

I started practicing yoga in my early 20's.  As someone with a busy mind I found that yoga, breath work and visualization helped me to calm what I call my monkey mind.  As part of my masters degree I worked on a research project with a fellow classmate of the benefits of meditation and we created an ran a class for adult women at the Grace Women's Centre at Foothills Hospital. I later took my yoga teacher training and received my certification from the Yoga Passage, a downtown yoga studio. I went on to teach both hatha, ashtanga and hot yoga at studios, gyms, businesses (for employees) and private residences.  Though I have not formally taught in years, yoga and mediation has remained a passion of mine.