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April 15, 2018
March 31, 2018
Using Mantras While Teaching Kids Yoga
I had the honor to guest post over at Mindful Teachers.
We live in a fast-paced world and so do our children. How can we, as adults and teachers, help children connect with themselves and others and also learn to enjoy the moment they are in?
What we think about ourselves can often impact how we develop.
If we feel we are inadequate, then we’ll behave like that.
If we believe we are special and loved, we will most likely behave as if we are special and loved.
This is one reason why affirmations and mantras can be an important tool to help children develop positive foundations on which to grow. A positive self-belief system built in childhood will hopefully stay with a person throughout their life.
What are Mantras?
The word ‘mantra’ comes from Sanskrit, and is generally used to mean a special word or phrase that’s used in meditation. Some parents and teachers may be concerned that mantras conflict with their religious beliefs, but mantras don’t need to have a religious aspect or overtone.
You can think of mantras as a few positive words spoken to ourselves each day. This can make such a difference to our whole mind and heart.
Mantras are similar to affirmations, and over time they can help change the way we feel. Mantras are repeated over and over to ourselves out loud or silently. It’s a wonderful technique for kids to use to set themselves up for doing their best and feeling good about themselves and their efforts.
Providing different tools for children to practice mindfulness with mantras, breathing exercises, and yoga poses is one of my passions. As I developed the Kids Yoga Challenge Pose Cards, I wanted to be sure to include all the important tools.
Each card shows a yoga pose and corresponding mantra. Each of the yoga poses involves a variety of muscles working and may make a person feel differently. The accompanying affirmation for each pose is short and memorable.
Continue reading here.
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March 28, 2018
Yoga is a Physical Activity for All Children
How many physical activities can your child be a part of that allows them to progress and move at their own rate? Yoga is a life long practice. The sooner children learn poses and breathing exercises, the longer they will be able to reap the benefits.
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March 24, 2018
Things Are Hopping! Kids Easter and Spring Yoga Lesson Plans and Activities
Get things hopping with Go Go Yoga for Kids and these Spring Kids Yoga Lesson Plans and Ideas.
Get your free complete Easter Egg Kids Yoga Lesson Plan here with all of the Spring yoga poses, games and activities. You may also like our Spring Yoga Transformation lesson plan complete with seed to flower and caterpillar to cocoon.
Check out our bestselling Kids Yoga Challenge Pose Cards in our store and are available on Amazon and Amazon Europe which provide wonderful pose visuals for games and partner poses.
For more kids lesson plans check out our bestselling guides; Go Go Yoga for Kids: A Complete Guide for Using Yoga With Kids and Go Go Yoga for Kids: Yoga Lessons for Children.
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Easter Egg Spring Kids Yoga Lesson Plan
Get out your plastic Easter Eggs ready and Celebrate Spring with this fun kids yoga lesson plan, games, and activities.
You may also like our Spring Kids Yoga Lesson Plan Video and Spring Transformation Lesson Plan.
For more kids yoga lesson plans check out our two bestselling books filled with dozens of ready to go kids yoga lesson plans and kids yoga games and activities.
Go Go Yoga for Kids: Yoga Lessons for Children
Go Go Yoga for Kids: A Complete Guide to Using Yoga with Children
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March 23, 2018
Yoga With Kids: How Yoga Can Benefit the Kids You Love
as I talk about why it is important to introduce yoga and mindfulness strategies with children and the most effective ways to go about doing it.
Listen in at any of the places below.
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March 18, 2018
Go Go Yoga for Kids: Yoga Lessons for Children is a Recommended Book
Thank you, Mindful Teachers, for your honest book review of Go Go Yoga for Kids: Yoga Lessons for Children. Read an excerpt of their review below.
Go Go Yoga for Kids: Yoga Lessons for Children (recommended book)
Sara Weis is a mother and elementary school teacher, as well as an experienced kids yoga instructor and teacher trainer. So she has a lot of useful suggestions for how to structure and pace a class while keeping kids safe and engaged.
But her biggest strength is as the creator of fun yoga-based activities. Her new book, Go Go Yoga for Kids: Yoga Lessons for Children has dozens of games and activities: Yoga Bingo! Princesses and pirates! Not to mention the four seasons, birthdays, the Olympics, and trips to the farm and circus. (Although I suspect one of the most popular themes might turn out to be the “Quick-and-Easy No-Time-to-Plan Kids Yoga Lesson.”)
Other features of the book include:
a variety of breathing practices;
the best yoga poses for children;
three different versions of a template for planning your own lessons;
a dozen lessons based on read-aloud books, including I Am Yoga and I Am Peace by Susan Verde; and
an illustrated Pose Glossary (which would also be useful for d/Deaf-friendly teaching)
Yoga Lessons for Kids can be used as a complement to Go Go Yoga: A Complete Guide to Yoga with Kids , or on its own if you already have some training and experience in kids yoga.
Ms. Weis has also created a set of 4×6″ Yoga Challenge Pose Cards that can be used
on their own or in conjunction with the books.Read more here.
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March 10, 2018
Join Go Go Yoga for Kids at the Ankeny Authors Fair
Join Go Go Yoga for Kids and many other authors at the Ankeny Authors Fair on April 14th at the Pinnacle Club. Stop and say hi, spin our Yoga Pose Wheel and check our newly released and best seller Go Go Yoga for Kids: Yoga Lessons for Children and the Kids Yoga Challenge Pose Cards.
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March 8, 2018
The Kids Yoga Challenge Pose Cards Go International
Go Go Yoga for Kids is thrilled to announce the launching of the Kids
Yoga Challenge Pose Cards internationally! Now you have the option to purchase directly from our store, Amazon.com or Amazon.uk.
The Kids Yoga Challenge Pose Cards will challenge you and your kids with balance, flexibility, mindfulness, and more. This card deck includes 40 poses including partner poses, confidence building pose mantras, and fun games to play together using these cards.
The Kids Yoga Challenge Pose Cards Include:
40 progressive yoga poses including partner poses
Empowering pose mantras for beginners and meditation
Poses rated from 1-5 stars based on levels
Easy to follow poses to create many original yoga flows
15 Bonus Games to play using these pose cards
Tested and proven yoga poses to bring most
mental and physical benefitTakes only minutes each day to gain lifelong skills and health benefits
Comes in a fun drawstring burlap bag
Read what others are saying about the Kids Yoga Challenge Pose Cards.
The Go Go Yoga for Kids Yoga Challenge Pose Cards are an excellent product for parents, teachers, and kids yoga instructors alike! The illustrations are bright and colorful, and the cards can be used in so many different ways. My kids just love practicing the poses, and we can’t wait to try the suggested games. These cards are a great companion to Sara’s book but can also be used on their own. Highly recommend!!
–Erin Leach
These cards are awesome! Simple, kid friendly pictures and an inspiring statement to go with each card. I used these in my Kindergarten classroom and was able to quickly and easily teach a handful of poses. There is a card with suggested ways to use the cards and suggestions for games to play with them, too. Will purchase more sets of these to use as gifts and give to fellow educators and parents.
–Kate Virgil
Find out more about the Kids Yoga Challenge Pose Cards.
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