The Movement of Meditation Replacing Detention in Schools


The Movement of Meditation Replacing Detention in Schools


The students in detention at Robert W. Coleman Elementary School in Baltimore aren’t staring at white walls—they’re meditating and practicing yoga as part of the Holistic Me after-school program.....

....Brothers Atman and Ali Smith and friend Andres Gonzalez started the nonprofit in 2001 in their hometown of Baltimore. Their goal was to provide kids from a low-income and high-crime-rate neighborhood with the tools to cope with stress and anger....

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Bethany`s Notes
Notes: Alright I know this article does not address sports and athletes but perhaps in a round about way it does. What if kids learned at a young age ways to cope with stress and anger that did not include bullying and name calling? What if students learned to use real words to address how they were really feeling? This is exactly what this program is doing. This will be interesting to follow....stay tuned.

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