Find a Yoga in the Classroom Teacher

Find a Yoga in the Preschool Classroom Teacher

Children's Yoga Teacher Training for Educators

This workshop is offered for two categories: K-12 and Preschool

Yoga In The Classroom: K - 12

This course is designed for elementary and secondary school teachers looking to incorporate yoga techniques into their classroom curriculum. Yoga experience is not required.

Help your students to:

• Build focus and concentration
• Reduce test taking anxiety and enhance performance
• Release fidgety, disruptive energy
• Feel successful by addressing multiple learning styles
• Soothe themselves in moments of conflict
• Alleviate physical tension and stress

It’s hard to believe that young children can get stressed out, but they definitely do. The everyday hectic routines that children lead - homework, taking tests, peer pressure, family issues, starting a new school, heavy school bags, endless after-school activities, lack of sleep – can all become very stressful. 

Yoga is a wonderful outlet for children to counter pressures, to release stress and pay attention to how they feel.  Yoga allows children to redirect their energy in a positive way by using fun, child-friendly techniques that help them to calm their minds and bodies, especially at times when they may be experiencing anxiety or nervousness.  When kids release their stresses, they have less to distract them and more energy to focus and learn! See NBC Today Show segment.

But how can you move and stretch in limited space and with a limited budget?  We’ll show you great yoga poses, games, breathing and visualization techniques to weave into a busy school day.  Students can practice these poses at their desks, sitting and standing, as well when your class has some open space to really bend and stretch. 

Overall Benefits of Yoga for Children:

• Physical Strength and Flexibility
• Concentration, Focus and Attention
• Improve Motor Skills
• Inner Strength and Body Awareness
• Confidence and Self-esteem
• Build Social Skills
• Sensory Awareness
• Relaxation and Self-control
• A Feeling of Well-Being & Respect for Others
• Love for One’s Self, Inside and Out

No previous yoga experience is required in order to participate in this workshop.

Course Fee: $250 which includes a KKY Teacher Training For Educators Manual, a certificate of course completion, and a listing and email contact on our website.

Payment in full is required to hold your spot, as space is limited. Billing and invoicing for Schools can be provided upon request. There is a $40 cancellation fee.

Upcoming Courses:

NYC, NY- Sunday, January 8th, 2012, 10:00am - 4:00pm, at Karma Kids Yoga. Early registration price ($225) by December 16th.

NYC, NY- Sunday, April 29th, 2012, 10:00am - 4:00pm, at Karma Kids Yoga. Early registration price ($225) by April 7th.

Courses for individual schools can be scheduled privately - flat rates can be negotiated.

Need more convincing? Watch this CBSNews story of a school that incorporated yoga into their curriculum and experienced suspensions down and test scores are up.

Yoga in the Preschool Classroom

This unique course was developed specifically for preschool educators and administrators, and has been designed to provide essential tools and techniques for incorporating yoga into the preschool classroom.

Preschool teachers know the importance of varying activities throughout the school day to keep children engaged. Introducing yoga into the preschool classroom is a great way for teachers to check in with students and to create meaningful transitions when moving from one activity to another. This course focuses on the age appropriate poses and games, breathing exercises, and visualization techniques, as well as specific developmental considerations, that can be seamlessly incorporated in the classroom throughout the school day. We will share creative and fun ways for keeping kids engaged, for transitioning between daily tasks, for calming and soothing, for focus and attention, and for whenever energy needs to be released, no matter where you are or what your class is doing.

You'll learn how to teach fun yoga classes from 5 minute exercises to 60 minute classes. Experience how we combine simple yoga poses with engaging songs, puppets and stories that exercise social, sensory and motor skills while increasing flexibility. Kids will strengthen their bodies as they learn how to focus through breathing and relaxation techniques.

Help your students to:

• Release energy in a small space
• Build focus and concentration
• Gain body awareness and a feeling of well-being
• Increase strength and flexibility
• Build confidence and self-esteem, as well as self-control
• Find a sense of calm through breathing and relaxation
• Love for one's self, inside and out

Sharing yoga with your preschoolers is for any time of the day - during lessons, story time, transitions, winding-down time, or after active play.

No previous yoga experience is required in order to participate in this workshop.

Course Fee: $200 which includes a KKY Teacher Training For Preschool Educators Manual, a certificate of course completion, and a listing and email contact on our website.

Payment in full is required to hold your spot, as space is limited. Billing and invoicing for Schools can be provided upon request. There is a $40 cancellation fee.

Upcoming Courses:

NYC, NY - Saturday, March 31st, 2012, 2:00pm - 7:00pm, at Karma Kids Yoga.

Courses for individual schools can be scheduled privately - flat rates can be negotiated.

What trainees have said:

I absolutely loved the Karma Kids Teacher Training Workshop. It was one of the few programs that I have participated in where the teachers actually know how to teach teachers. It is evident that the instructor's posses a complete understanding of yoga, children, and teaching techniques. The music and creativity draws you in to this wonderfully imaginative yoga world that you really want to recreate for your class. You just know the kids will love it, because you had so much fun learning how to facilitate it. One of my most favorite activities that I love to watch come to life since I learned to do the poses are the imaginary worlds you can travel to. There are lots of different poses to get you where you want to go and then more fun poses to help you transform into the inhabitants of the place you created. My colleagues and I took a boat, a plane, and a car to the jungle in outer space! We were upside-down monkeys, stomping elephants, slithering snakes, and silent, twinkling stars. I enjoyed the workshop so much that the next day my class of two year olds went to the jungle in outer space as well. Every session we take a different trip. I also take my son to community yoga at Karma Kids very often. I love to watch the teachers and the kids in action and see what else I can learn. After all the fun I had, I couldn't allow him to miss out. written by Phoebe Mihael, Director at Village Kids Nursery, NYC

Yoga is beneficial to everyone!

Call us at (646)638-1444 or email downdog@karmakidsyoga.com with any questions or to register.