Sandy Bothmer

Sandy Bothmer has a B.S. in Education from Northern Illinois University in De Kalb, Illinois and an M.Ed. from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her elementary school teaching career spanned twenty years. She still uses those teaching skills as she presents Peaceable Classroom and Peaceable Living (stress reduction) workshops at various conferences, schools and parent groups, works privately with adults and children in energy medicine and yoga sessions, and teaches adult yoga and Creative Kids Yoga® classes.

One never knows what gifts are coming your way! Sandy was pleasantly surprised when she received a letter asking if she had considered making a workshop she was to present into a book. Her answer was, "No." That question prompted a call to the editor, a friendly discussion and the eventual submission of a book proposal for what came to be Creating the Peaceable Classroom.

The new version was a gift as well. When I was asked to reflect on the possibility of going forward wih a revision and come back in two weeks to discuss it, I said, " I would be more inclined to come if there was chocolate waiting for me, especially if you decide not to go forward." We all laughed. I came back two weeks later and there waiting for me was a double, chocolate cake in celebration of our moving forward with the book revision!