YOGA-BASED PROGRAMS, SEMINARS or Workshops
for Teachers and Educators
The hands-on
Yoga-based program, seminar or workshop for teachers and educators
allows the participants
to experience the benefits of Body-Mind-Spirit unity, while
gaining self-confidence to integrate ca 10-20 minute Yoga sessions into
their daily curriculum. These short segments won’t take too much
of the required academic time hence will enhance energy, focus, and
concentration, which are necessary for effective learning as well as
for establishing a life-long healthy habits in young children. This seminar provides an excellent comfort and
support for teachers and educators.
What is Included
| 1
Yoga -
brief history and philosophy |
6 Instruction to guided meditation |
| 2 Ten-session curriculum |
7 Brief introduction to physiology and
body mechanics |
| 3 Standard daily lesson plan |
8 Suggestions for age specific journal
writing and/or drawing |
| 4 Weekly lesson plans with reproducible
activity handouts&glossary |
9 Healthy diet, nutrition, and eating
guidelines |
| 5 Instruction for exercises with warm up
and cool down series |
10 Songs - Stories
- Dances – Games |
What are the Benefits for Educators?
-
Yoga-based programs,
seminars, or workshops offer
an easy to learn skills that teachers can then pass on their students
with strong confidence. Through Yoga and meditation teachers will be
able to easier guide
children in the fast-paced world of today, offering them effective way
to cope with their daily problems and pressures.
* Learn how to foster components of positive development
* Identify the areas in children's lives they are most
motivated to
enhance
* Create a personalized class-specific action and lesson
plan
* Access tools and resources to reach specific goals
* Assess and make appropriate changes in children's lives
* Track children's progress in reaching a higher level of
achievement
* Achieve a higher level of class management, children's
health,
well-being and aliveness
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.
Yoga
for Happy Kids
programs give children a strong sense of self through the dimensions of
physical, mental, and spiritual
equanimity and provide tools toward positive development as a
foundation of a balanced life-style. The yoga-based programs are
invaluable for
children, as well as for teachers and parents.
It is hoped you recognize the multifaceted benefits in implementing Yoga for Happy Kids program into your classroom and
thus 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.
