Welcome back to our series featuring kid's yoga professionals that have taken the Flow and Grow Kids Yoga Teacher Training. Meet Jessica Mougis, creator of the podcast, The Kids Yoga Podcast. "I love the idea of kids yoga teachers driving to work or walking to the subway, and listening to a quick episode to get creative inspiration."
Welcome to a new series featuring kid's yoga professionals that have taken the Flow and Grow Kids Yoga Teacher Training. Our first article features Jen. Please read the interview to learn what YOU can do with a career in kids yoga, too!
Kids’ yoga is evolving. Don’t get stuck in the past. These are the 7 trends I am predicting to help to pioneer kids’ yoga in 2020. Will you shift your teaching to evolve with the industry? Follow the trends to stay on top of best practice.
Eagle pose can look confusing and difficult if viewed in its fullest expression. When working with children, I discourage showing difficult poses. Instead, I encourage sharing poses they will most likely be able to get into safely in a reasonable amount of time (which varies depending on our intentions and goals, but probably within the class or short session.)
I became a real teacher this year, in my 17th year in the classroom by stepping back and allowing the kids to lead. By accepting that they need to have dynamic experiences and letting go of the appearance of yoga. By letting them act, play, laugh, and create!
Learning gratitude doesn’t happen overnight, it’s a behavior that can be taught and reinforced over time. Teaching kids about gratitude requires them to observe from an outside lens. In doing so, they can learn to form healthy relationships with themselves and others.
Every year when I do the Halloween yoga lessons, the children LOVE to talk about emotions, dressing up, monsters, the good guys, superheroes, and so many other archetypes of human-ness. These characters help children understand right and wrong and emotions from a safe distance. It allows them to let messages in.
One day, Lara shared some stories about using our Autumn Yoga Sequence product in the classroom. She told me how much the kids loved the activities and lesson plans. But we felt that there was room for improvement. So we did just that. We decided to update our Autumn Yoga Sequence products… just in time for the Fall season to start.
Did you know that yoga is an excellent tool to integrate literacy in the classroom? By combining yoga and literacy, we can develop contextual themes for the classroom. We can infuse literacy skills directly into the class through active learning. Learn three powerful ways to infuse reading and moving.
Nowadays parents of young or school-aged children send their kids to yoga because they want them to embody the myriad benefits of yoga: strength, focus, flexibility, and calm. Find out five ways kids benefit from yoga and mindfulness.
