Dee Marie is the SAVE (Stop America’s Violence Everywhere) representative for the state of Colorado.

Dee Marie, M.A., CYT, in collaboration with the Boulder County Medical Society Alliance, as SAVE Representive for the American Medical Association and with the help of her own company Energy Source Incorporated, developed the CK yoga curriculum.  Dee has been a yoga therapist for 20 years. She has a Masters Degree in Exercise Therapy and Child Development from NYU.  She is a certified adult yoga teacher, children’s yoga teacher and pre-natal yoga teacher.

The program has shown measurable positive results in the social behavior of young students.

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CALMING  KIDS began in the fall of 2004, and it has been incorporated into the academic curriculum of a Boulder school, Heatherwood Elementary, every October (National SAVE time) since 2004 and will continue into the future.  It started with only 2 classrooms and is now including 7 classrooms within this school. CK was originally conducted as a pilot project, with 120 4th and 5th grade children, to track its efficacy.  Questionnaires were designed and analyzed by a Harvard statistician and filled out by the students prior to and following the program each year.    It has been shown to increase anger management by 93% in only 6 yoga sessions.

Bullying and aggressive behavior are on the rise in American schools according to a 2001 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Our Boulder, Colorado program CALMING KIDS (CK) – Creating a Non-Violent World, teaches 8th grade school teachers, councelors, yoga teachers, and students, non-denominational yoga techniques to increase concentration, relaxation, and fitness, and to decrease bullying and violence. Some examples of the effects of CALMING KIDS:

The project’s primary goal is to convey a philosophical and scientific, non-denominational yoga program to school teachers and children as a lifestyle choice.  We present a curriculum that inspires a positive, peaceful, physically strong, and self confident, attitude with a system of how to communicate in a relaxed way.  Ultimately, we are empowering children to manage their own feelings for self-preservation and to feel safe within themselves and their surroundings to give them a greater capacity for success in school and in life. The program’s emphasis is non-harming to oneself and toward others, learning to respect personal space, with a high-level of concentration practices enhancing academics and encouraging nonviolent behavior.