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YOGA POSES

FLEXIBILITY, STRENGTH, COORDINATION

Incorporate Yoga into your School! 

Chakra Kids Yoga makes it easy for schools to integrate yoga in their weekly program. We come to you!

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Children’s Classes

 

Our classes are designed to nurture each child’s natural compassion and innate wisdom by engaging mind, body and spirit. Through songs, movement, and stories, we cohesively combine all of the following elements to provide a playful and creative approach to yoga in a comfortable and safe environment.

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  • Breath Awareness Techniques: Increase focus, reduce stress, and promote self-regulation.

  • Yoga Poses: Increase strength, flexibility, body awareness, and coordination.

  • Cooperative Games: Promote positive social interactions, communication, and confidence.

  • Yoga Stories: Teaches life lessons, how to focus, about cause and effect, how to problem solve.

  • Meditation: Enhance concentration, reduce stress, and arrive in the present moment.

  • Mindfulness: Learn self-awareness, healthy habits and non-violence.

  • Relaxation: Cultivate peace and serenity and recharge.

 

Class Information:

                

  • Children’s classes can be offered to the whole school or as an extracurricular program

  • We adapt to your space, classroom, gym, portable, outside, or another appropriate setting.

  • Mats and all supplies are provided.

  • Classes are 25-60 minutes and may take place before, during or after school. ​​

  • Consecutive classes are a great option (2 classes/hour for large groups, multiple classrooms).

  • Our program is flexible and designed to fit the unique needs of your school.

  • All ages welcome.   

 

Who Teaches Our Classes?

 

All classes are taught by yoga teachers that have:

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  • 200 hr Yoga Certification

  • 95 hr Children’s Yoga Teacher Training Certification

  • Registered with Yoga Alliance as an RYT (Registered Yoga Teacher) & RCYT (Registered Children’s Yoga Teacher)

  • Liability Insurance

  • First Aid/CPR certification for infants to adults

  • Background check can be provided

  • Had 40 + hours of observation and practice teaching kids yoga

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We'd love to come to your school! For questions about our kids yoga classes in Austin schools or any other services or to schedule an initial visit please call or email Amy Pancake at chakrakidsyoga@gmail.com or (512) 466-1168. Let's get moving!

Parent and Educator Trainings

New tools for the class room

We offer training sessions to help teachers and parents incorporate elements of yoga into the classroom and family’s home life to promote the physical and emotional benefits of yoga throughout the child’s day. There are opportunities for participants to receive reduced tuition and scholarships for teacher trainings and other programs with Chakra Kids Yoga.

 

Chakra Kids Yoga offers a variety of flexible short workshops for teacher inservice days to meet the needs of your staff! These can be expanded to half-day or full-day workshops!

Trainings for Teachers

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Self-care techniques for teachers

*(60-90 minutes)

 

  • Neck, shoulder and wrist and back rescue moves.

  • How to “reset” during challenging days.

  • Self-care techniques for teachers - you can’t just leave, so what can you do to take care of yourself in school?

 

*(2 hours)  

  • All of the above plus add meditation basics & more yoga tools!


 

Yoga in the Classroom

*(60-90 min)

 

  • Basics of yoga with kids (pre-k through high school)

  • Why do yoga with your students?

  • Yoga poses for kids and resources

 

*(2 hours)

  • All of the above plus add meditations and relaxtion techniques for kids


 

Self-care techniques for teachers + Yoga in the Classroom

*(4 hours)

  • All of the above including self-care strategies for in the classroom

  • Chair yoga and more simple stretches you can do in the classroom.

  • Short meditations and pranayama techniques to relax and replenish.

  • Basics of yoga with kids: why do it, how does it help, what are the elements?

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