Yoga for Happy Kids Programs for Parents

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YOGA-BASED Programs, Seminars, And workshops

For Parents and Kids

Parents are the first and most important teachers in children’s lives.  Parental support, encouragement, and participation in children’s lives play a very important part in their positive development.  Children’s engagements in the Yoga-based programs awake all their intelligences and nourish their natural abilities and talents.  The integration of the scientific findings into daily Yoga practice creates an excellent union that makes it easy and natural for parents to implement Yoga in their children’s daily routine.  Yoga becomes not only fun and a rewarding family activity but also a wonderful way for creating family togetherness.

The hands-on Yoga-based program, seminar, or workshop offers easy to learn Yoga-based skills that parents can pass onto their children with confidence.  Through Yoga and meditation parents are better equipped to guide their children in today’s fast paced society, offering them an effective way to cope with daily problems and pressures.

Yoga-Based Program, Seminar, and Workshop for Parents Includes  

• Yoga brief history and philosophy
• Daily asanas and breathing exercises
• Reproducible activity handouts and glossary
• Yoga practice instructions - with warm up and cool down series
• Brief introduction to physiology and body mechanics
• Suggestions for age-specific journal writing or drawing for personal expression and reflection
• Healthy diet, nutrition, and eating guidelines
• Songs - Stories- Dances - Games

What are the Benefits for Parents?

• Learn how to use Yoga to guide children toward healthy positive development

• Enhance parenting skills

• Gain confidence to create daily Yoga practice to establish and enhance child's daily life

• Develop a playful family togetherness

• Learn about and how to apply healthy food choices and understand portions

• Learn positive self-expression

• Learn how to foster positive self-talk development in children 

PRAISE FOR THE CHILDREN'S POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT

Anybody at any level can practice and benefit from Yoga-based programs. The variety of levels in each exercise challenges every stage of physical development and prepares the body for the next stage.  Concentration and focus develops along with physical and mental strength, flexibility, and balance. 

The Yoga for Happy Kids  programs give children a strong sense of the Self through the dimensions of physical, mental, and spiritual equanimity and provide tools toward positive development as a foundation of a balanced lifestyle.  They are an invaluable resource for children, as well as for parents.

It is hoped that you recognize the multifaceted benefits in implementing Yoga for Happy Kids programs into your children's daily life. Yoga for Happy Kids program experience is not just an one-time event, but rather an opportunity to building a relationship with you in which we can play a valuable part in children's personal growth. This is an opportunity you will definitely want to take advantage of for the sake of your children's prosperity, health, and well-being.

Enjoy the included short PowerPoint Yoga for Happy Kids  presentation including excerpts from classes rendered at 112th Street elementary school.