Yoga Educator Susie Lopez Launches New Educational Website for Kids: LookUpYoga.com

NEW YORK, Nov. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Susie Lopez, New York yoga and wellness educator, today announced the launch of www.LookUpYoga.com; a fresh, engaging website that gives a new spin to children's yoga and direct access on the web for use in classrooms or at home. The site showcases Lopez's gorgeously produced Look Up Yoga DVD, which she created and hosts.

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"Focus your mind, count your breath in time, practice every day and all will come your way," is a tenet Lopez says that is the key to yoga, yet can be ascribed to any goal.

Lopez, who serves on the board of and teaches for Bent on Learning, New York's largest provider of yoga in public schools, has developed a curriculum based loosely on the chakra system, without ever mentioning the word chakra, offering a neutral, non-dogmatic approach. Therein, Lopez infuses traditional liberal arts, the eight limbs of astanga yoga, special needs calming skills, self awareness and empowerment; all taught through yoga.

Visitors to LookUpYoga.com are welcomed by a interactive, "living classroom" featuring links to the Look Up Yoga DVD trailer, Susie's blog, as well as the information about her upcoming projects and speaking engagements. The beautifully rendered "living classroom" serves as the site's centerpiece; there is also a link to purchase your own DVD of the introductory class, Look Up: Be Grounded, from the Look Up Yoga series featuring both NYC Public classroom life and the wild splendor of Kenya, the first stop on a tour around the globe. Add an energizing, original soundtrack and you are sure to get children of all ages up, moving, and learning. The Look Up Yoga soundtrack, original songs to guide the sun salutes, each representative of a different culture, will also be available for purchase via the site. The Sun Salute songs are recorded by name artists with all proceeds going to www.BentonLearning.org and are a fantastic first step; the kids get motivated by the music and learn through the lyrics. Stripped of the patronization frequently associated with "children's songs", the Look Up songs relate to all ages.

ABOUT SUSIE LOPEZ

Susie Lopez is dedicated to bolstering the lives of our youth with wellness instruction in both yoga and nutrition. Three years ago she co founded FIVE with founder, filmmaker Tamra Davis. FIVE teaches basic cooking skills and nutrition to schoolchildren across the country www.fiveforkids.org. The FIVE curriculum is also based on the principle of learning by doing; the kids learn to cook by making whole foods recipes themselves, which empowers them to try new foods and to turn towards a new, healthier direction in their lives, all in just five classes. FIVE was recently recognized by the American Heart Association and has received sponsorship from the Mario Batali Foundation.

Susie has practiced yoga for more than a decade at Ashtanga Yoga New York under the direction Eddie Stern and while fully embracing astanga's eight limbs, has crafted Look Up to be dogma free and accessible to all. After learning about yoga's myriad benefits for children and inspired by her son's struggles with ADHD and Tourette Syndrome, Susie joined Bent on Learning www.bentonlearning.org which was established in 2001 and is New York City's largest supplier of yoga in Public Schools, serving 3000 students per week. Combining her masters studies in Art History with her passion for the liberal arts and progressive education, Look Up is a yoga curriculum that nurtures students' minds and bodies as they learn by doing, seeing, and hearing. Frustrated by the overwhelming demand for yoga in schools and spurred by the challenges students face in the midst of severe cutbacks in physical education, increasing child obesity and stress related illness, Susie created the Look Up video series to offer every child, in class or at home, the healing gifts of yoga.

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