KIDS NEED YOGA TOO!

Children who do yoga have an advantage.  Yoga helps children become more self-confident and self-aware, as well as more physically fit. Just for starters! Yoga also help with many medical conditions, such as asthma, insomnia, digestive problems, ADD/ADHD and learning disabilities, to name a few.

A good children's yoga class:

• engages the child at their age level
• is fun, and
• promotes a state of well-being on all levels (body/mind/spirit)

   Benefits of Yoga for Kids

• Connects oneself and others
• Improves socialization skills and boundary awareness
• Improves focus and concentration
• Improves balance and coordination
• Increases strength and flexibility
• Improves overall physical fitness
• Improves motor planning skills
• Improves fine motor skills
• Increases sensory integration
• Improves memory and reading retention
• Improves speech via improved breathing and alignment
• Teaches tools to calm the body
• Teaches sequencing (often challenging for learning disabled children)
• Promotes creativity
• Reinforces the learning process
• Offers tools for living and growing up in the world today
• Offers children with special needs, and children of all ages, opportunities to expand their horizons.

Hatha Yoga for Teens&Tweens

Hatha Yoga for Teens and Tweens is specially designed for these developing yoga practitioners. Transitioning from childhood to young adulthood, teens and pre-teens often prefer a more adult-like yoga class with a light-hearted approach.  Enjoying the benefits of yoga together is very balancing and calming for teens and their friends.  It also helps them release stress from the pressures of high school and middle school. 

YogaMotion

For younger yoga students, YogaMotion brings kids to new levels of balance and rhythm.  Yoga allows children to increase their body awareness while they stretch, dance, and YogaMove.

Twister Yoga

For an interesting twist on a yoga class, Twister Yoga brings the idea of the Twister game together with yoga postures. Twister Yoga is just plain fun.

Laughter Yoga for Kids

Laughter Yoga for Kids allows kids to be kids. They practice yogic breathing and stretching combined with laughter exercises creating an atmosphere of playfulness and fun. 

Reiki-Yoga for Kids

Reiki-Yoga for Kids has a unique quality of exponentially increasing calmness in children.  This blend of Reiki and Yoga is effective in treating children diagnosed with ADD or ADHD and has been reported to potentially  reduce the need for medication.