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5 Ways to Add Mindfulness to Your Day
Ever feel anxious, overwhelmed and wish life could be simpler? Especially with the new school year upon us, life can feel chaotic. Let’s not use these circumstances as reasons to lose presence. Let’s make them a reason to double down on our commitments to being mindful, restful, and kind.
Yoga Poses for Kids: Shark
Keep yoga and mindfulness top of mind throughout the summer, starting with our adorableShark pose. Incorporate shark songs and games for extra fun!
Yoga Poses for Kids: Dancer Pose
Dancer Pose is an excellent balance pose that helps us build stability and posture while stretching our hips and legs. While this pose might be challenging for kids, we find that kids will try over again and again to find their balance. It’s okay to topple over–we can keep trying together.
The 5 Breath Space Maker
Learn how to practice the 5 breath space maker mindfulness and breathing activity for children, adults, and classroom teachers. Breathing and focus activities for kids. Kids Yoga classes and classrooms.
My Yoga Workbook
We are so pleased to announce our first-ever kids yoga workbook! My Yoga Workbook: A Winter Yoga Journey is a workbook designed to empower children with the power of yoga and mindfulness.
Balanced Breathing Exercise For Kids
Learn to practice balanced breathing
Kid's yoga and mindfulness activities
Accessible breathing for kids yoga classes
Christmas yoga :The 12 Days of Christmas Yoga Game and Singalong
On the 12th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, a fun yoga experience with the kids I love!
Yoga for Kids: Sun Salutation for Kids
Sun salutations for Kids -modifications to make sun salutations safe for kids
DIY Glitter Jar for Mindfulness and Calming
Making a glitter jar with your kids is a great way to introduce mindfulness. It illustrates how our thoughts can settle, just like when you shake it. The glitter represents our thoughts. When you are experiencing big emotions, give it a good shake and watch the glitter as it settles to refocus and refresh your mind!
Take 5 Minutes to be Mindful this Holiday Season
Use the holidays to take a moment to be mindful with your little yogis. Teaching kids mindfulness techniques will give them the skills to understand and regulate their emotions. It replaces wandering, distracted minds with thoughtful responses. Try these two mindful activities this holiday season.
How to Integrate Yoga and Mindfulness into the School Day: Part 1
We have all been there. We spend our time, energy, and sometimes money making lofty plans for our young students. We have the best intention of imparting a fun and/or meaningful lesson unto them. And then that plan cannot move forward. The students are not able to sit, listen, or connect. What can we do to smooth out the school day? Try these ways to integrate yoga and mindfulness into your school day.
Yoga Poses for Kids: Falling Leaf Yoga Pose
To promote movement, we invite kids to do the Falling Leaf pose. We pretend to be leaves hanging onto our trees, ready to change color and fall. This pose is great for learning balance.
Downward Facing Dog Yoga pose for kid
How do kids do downward dog differently? Let's learn it together!
Multifaceted Health Benefits of Yoga for Kids
Yoga for kids has a transformative power! Holistic practices can enhance mental health, concentration, and physical fitness.
Flower Yoga Pose - Inspired by Lotus Flower
Kids Yoga Poses: Flower Pose
Flower pose is a crowd pleaser when working with children.
While it requires core strength and balance, learners can practice safely with a few safety tips.
Late Spring Yoga -- Breath, Movement, and Poses
Yoga -- including poses, movement, and breath work -- can help us to feel more balanced and grounded. Let's explore bumble bee breathing, airplane, and tree pose.
Yoga breath for social emotional learning
Breathing is central to life; we can only survive minutes without it. Short of life or death, the quality of breath can greatly effect our present-moment experience -- no matter our age and place in this world. Let's look at four different yogic breaths that can be helpful when we're experiencing four different emotions.
3 Relationships Important to Self Care
Imagine giving children the tools to practice self-care by themselves. By forming a self-care routine, children gain the skills to manage future stressors in a healthy and productive way. Kids will cultivate lifelong healthy habits with themselves and others. Here are three relationships important to self care.
Cat and Cow Pose for Kids
Cat and cow pose for kids.
How to do cat and cow poses with children.
Benefits of cat cow pose.
Yoga Pose for Kids: Eagle
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.)
Teaching Gratitude with Yoga and Mindfulness
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.
Raising Mindful Families
I combine my knowledge from spending the last 15 plus years in both early childhood education and yoga and mindfulness to provide this list. This is intended for working parents, new parents, parents-to-be, and all people that want to live a more mindful, peaceful existence.
Body of Emotions: 3 Simple Tips to Help Kids Recognize Emotions
Our emotions cause sensations in our bodies. And with mindfulness techniques, kids can learn to identify, process and regulate those emotions through body awareness. Learn three ways kids can make mindful connections to their bodies and their emotions.
3 Ways to Integrate Yoga and Literacy
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.
Kids Yoga Day Sequence: Free Poster!
Get moving with 5 minutes of yoga every day!April 5th, 2019 marks the 4th AnnualKids Yoga Day! Kids Yoga Day is held on the first Friday in April and was founded to bring the powerful benefits of yoga to children. Join us in a 5-minute yoga routine with ourfree Kids Yoga Day Sequence poster!
Reverse Warrior Yoga Poses for Kids
Feel strong and energized inReverse Warrior. Reverse Warrior is a strong standing pose that stretches along the side while energizing your entire body. Through this pose, you will feel your body warm up, including your arms, core, and legs. When doing this pose, invite children to make a strong warrior call when lifting your arm to the sky.
How to Integrate Yoga and Mindfulness in the Classroom: Part 2
There is not a single elementary teacher that feels they have enough time in the day to comfortably add more. I completely understand that feeling. There is pressure to cram a lot in, testing scores on the line, often behavioral challenges as well as special needs to give attention to, continuing education, initiatives that must be incorporated into the school day.
Commit to Lifelong Healthy Habits
Yesterday I had the honor of leading a children’s yoga class to kick off the annual Brooklyn Book Festival Children’s day. The class was the first event for My Yoga Workbook: A Winter Yoga Journey, my 2016 book release. The crowd participated and was captivated. What a joy. What a joy!
Construction Paper Mandala
Mandalas are circles, often found in nature, animals, seasons, food, and geometric shapes. Take a walk around your house and you may be surprised at how many mandalas you can find! Learn how to make a coloring mandala for your meditation practice.
The Benefits of Yoga Poses for Babies
You're never too young to start doing yoga. Did you know that yoga practice can be very beneficial for babies? With proper precautions and care, it can be really helpful for their mental and physical development.
My Little Yogi
“My Little Yogi" is a Kids Yoga exercise series that teaches mindfulness, breath, kindness, gratitude, patience, curiosity, sharing, and all feelings and emotions. We love these videos because they playful and make yoga easy to understand! And the videos are a great way to introduce seasons and what that means for the body and mind!
Slow Down Sensory Snack
With mindfulness, you can change your relationship with how you taste and enjoy food. Using your 5 senses to pay close attention to your experience, you can become aware of how enjoyable eating can be. And the benefits of slowing down are proven. When we see and smell our food and allow the mouth to salivate, the digestive process is less work for our bodies than if we scarf down our food. Therefore the benefits are both physical and mental
3 Ways to Acts of Kindness Tree with Kids Yoga
The Acts of Kindness Tree is a great activity for children and parents/teachers to explore acts of kindness together. It illustrates the different ways you can be kind. Helping a friend out. Picking up trash. Volunteering at a local shelter. No matter how big or small your kind deed is, it impacts the world around you.
Airplane Yoga Poses
Fly high and free! The Airplane Pose is a great balancing pose and helps develop concentration. This pose strengthens the legs, chest, and arms. While doing this pose, think to yourself “I am free.” Imagine soaring through the sky like an airplane.