Are you looking for yoga therapy ideas? You might have already discovered the benefits of integrating yoga into your therapy sessions. Integrating yoga into therapy sessions has been shown to increase: strength and flexibility body awareness, balance, and coordination attention and behavioral regulation cognitive skills and language development social skills As Claire and Lauren from […]
Learn yoga poses with this fun Memory Yoga game! From your responses to our Kids Yoga Stories reader survey a couple of months ago, I know that you also have or work with children who are “outside the box” – children who don’t fit the typical behaviors of children described in parenting and teaching books. […]
For another interesting kids yoga class idea, why not learn about swamp flora and fauna through swamp animals yoga poses for kids! Recently, we visited a plantation near Charleston, North Carolina. We were excited to see egrets, dragonflies, alligators, turtles, cypress trees, Spanish moss, great blue herons, moorhens, and butterflies on our swamp tour. When […]
Welcome back to our chair yoga poses series! This month’s theme features ocean yoga poses! These five ocean-themed yoga poses could be done: during a transition time in the classroom during a subject change in your homeschool classroom at home when you’re stuck indoors when you would like to practice yoga in a small space […]
Back to School also means a day off with family to honor the economic and social contributions of workers in our communities for Labor Day. The United States Department of Labor defines this special day as: “Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the […]
You might have gathered that most of our yoga sequences are based on various habitats or places around the world. So, when a few of you recently asked for a Superhero Yoga sequence, I asked my dear friend and colleague, Lani Rosen-Gallagher of Full of Joy Yoga to help us out with ideas! Let’s bring […]
You love working with children. You love yoga. So, naturally you love teaching kids yoga, right? Our community is always asking for tips of how to teach kids yoga. Today, I would love to share my philosophy by detailing four steps to teaching to children, which are based on my experience as a certified yoga […]
Welcome back to our chair yoga poses series! This month’s theme includes beach poses! Integrating movement into the students’ learning experiences is so important, and I’m hoping this year-long series will help to bring yoga into your life in a fun, creative, and easy way. Each month, this series will feature a different theme that […]
Below is an excerpt from a post titled “5 Simple Ways to help Children Calm Angry Feelings with Yoga” that I wrote for Lemon Lime Adventures, a popular parenting resource created by a former teacher and parent to a child with sensory processing challenges. Follow the link below to read the whole yoga for anger […]
Welcome back to our chair yoga ideas for kids series! This month’s theme includes jungle yoga poses! Integrating movement into the students’ learning experiences is so important, and I’m hoping this year-long series will help to bring yoga into your life in a fun, creative, and easy way. Each month, this series will feature a […]
Do you provide yoga therapy for children with autism? Today, I would love to share the story of an extraordinary teacher, Mary, who teaches yoga to children with autism. By sharing her experiences, challenges, and ideas, we hope that you’ll find inspiration for your work, as well. Feel free to share your story in the […]
Yoga benefits all people, truly. Today, Megan shares how to specifically teach mindfulness and yoga to children with hearing loss. A special thanks to Megan for the photos in this post. This article is part of our series on yoga therapy for children. Working with children who have hearing loss has been a learning curve, […]
Today, I would love to share with you ten stories from our Kids Yoga Stories community that demonstrate the benefits of yoga for kids. Scroll to the bottom of the post for a chance to win 10 yoga books for kids! Last year, we sent out a newsletter asking if anyone was interested in boxes […]
Welcome back to our chair yoga poses series! This month’s theme is island yoga! Integrating movement into the students’ learning experiences is so important, and I’m hoping this year-long series will help to bring yoga into your life in a fun, creative, and easy way. Each month, this series will feature a different theme that […]
Learn about desert animals through desert yoga poses and desert books for kids! Try a desert theme for one of your kids yoga classes. Dash like a kit fox, slither like a rattlesnake, and peek out of your shell like a desert tortoise. Our family went on a trip through the Southwest in a RV […]