[Public domain image on Wikimedia Commons-Tomasland took this picture on April 2nd 2006]
“Feel Good, Inc.” by Gorillaz
This song is so aptly named, it always makes me dance! It’s such a fun, interesting song. I love pop dance music, but if typically is missing depth. This song has depth, variation, and also features one of my favorite childhood bands, De La Soul. I don’t have much more to say other than it is fun! In my job as a Physical Education teacher I have a strings version for yoga and a remix for fitness classes., and my students love it too. I can’t get enough!
5songpjct: I see a trend of integrating yoga and mindfulness in classrooms. What are the benefits and would you have wished there were something like that for us growing up?
Christine: I see so many benefits for my students, and they report the same! I see that students are calmer and more focused even after a short meditation. They are more open to ideas, and have tools when they struggle. It’s not magic, it’s not perfect, but I see my students use these tools to address daily worries and issues to more serious issues like chronic anxiety and depression. Most of the time, when a student I know is having a hard time, I will suggest taking a few deep breaths, and sometimes that is all they need. It provides them, and me, great tools that can be used anytime, anywhere! As for our own childhood, I see a big difference in that my students are open to it. I don’t know that we would have been as open to it as teenagers, it wasn’t part of the culture or even the “counter culture” we were more likely to embrace. Personally, it took me a long time to take up meditation and yoga, I thought it was too slow and a waste of time! But we could have benefitted from it so much! It’s such a great tool to address self-doubt and the thousand challenges of being a teenager.
TOMORROW musician crushes