Katherine Priore: Combatting Toxic Stress in Low-Income Schools

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Yoga, Yogaland, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

My guest this week is Katherine Priore Ghannam. Katherine is the founder of Headstand, a nonprofit organization that teaches yoga and mindfulness to kids attending low income schools. Headstand is a program that is integrated into the school's curriculum and a large part of its focus is to help children combat "toxic stress." Here's a summary of what we talk about on the episode:* The definition of toxic stress and how it can inhibit a child's ability to learn.* Learning to see a child's behavior as their way of communicating their needs, difficulties, and emotions. * The importance of adult self-regulation when teaching children.* The changes she sees in students from the beginning of the year to the end.* How yoga and mindfulness have helped create cultures of compassion in the schools that Headstand serves.* How the job has fueled Katherine's optimism* Katherine's desire to see social/emotional learning and mindfulness integrated into schools everywhere. Shownotes: yogalandpodcast.com/episode16/

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0:30.0	Hi everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 16 of Yoga Land.
0:34.8	My guest today is Catherine Priory. Catherine is the founder of Headstand, a nonprofit
0:46.0	organization in the San Francisco Bay Area that offers yoga and mindfulness programs to kids who
0:51.4	attend low-income schools.
0:54.0	One of the reasons I started Yoga Land was to highlight and provide a platform for people
0:58.0	who are integrating yoga practices into modern life.
1:01.0	I know that there are a lot of yoga teaching programs out there in schools
1:04.3	and I can think of no better way to bring yoga into our culture than to start with
1:08.2	young kids. So if you're out there on the front lines teaching yoga to kids. I want to thank you and I applaud you.
1:15.3	I've known Catherine for a long time and just recently she asked me to start helping on
1:19.2	Headstand's board so I'm thrilled to be able to start doing that soon.
1:22.8	There are a few things that make Headstand unique.
1:25.0	The first is that the yoga classes are part of the curriculum.
1:29.0	So these are not after-school programs or just one-off units. These are 40-week
1:34.4	programs that are in accordance with the school's curriculum. The other thing I love
1:38.5	about Hetsyenne is that the mental and emotional techniques are
1:41.4	emphasized as much as the physical in a very
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