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Go Go Yoga Kids News and Events

by | Sep 19, 2016

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Using Mantras While Teaching Kids Yoga: Mindful Teachers

Get Ready for the Winter Olympics…Yoga Style Daily Cup of Yoga

Best Yoga Poses for Growing Kids: Des Moines Parent

Yoga and Mindfulness Tips for Your Family: Yoga Iowa Magazine

The Top Breathing Exercises for Anxious Kids

5 Kid-Friendly Yoga Poses that Will Open Hearts and Minds

Celebrate the Solar Eclipse with these Family Friendly Yoga Poses

Jungle Adventure for Kids

How Yoga Taught Me One Valuable Lesson I Will Never Forget

5 Fun Yoga Games for Kids & Adults with an Inner Child

5 Ways to Cure Kids’ Cabin Fever with Yoga

Take the Kids Yoga Challenge

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Back to the Beginning of Go Go Yoga for Kids

Back to the Beginning of Go Go Yoga for Kids

by | May 22, 2016 | Presenting

tree poseThree boys. That was the total number of participants for the very first kids yoga classes that I ever taught. I was fresh out the gate with my kids yoga training and was ready and eager to introduce kids to the fun and love of yoga.

After all, I loved yoga AND kids and was sure that I could get these three unsuspecting boys on board. After all, one was a fitness instructor’s son (who pretty much had to be there) and the other two were not native English speaking students. Their mom hoped they would pick up some more words and understanding by taking a yoga class.

I poured my heart into these boys for our first 8-week session. I spent hours researching and creating active yoga themes and games that I knew would get their bodies moving and their interests piqued. We were superheroes, jungle animals, warriors, and Lego enthusiasts.  I wrote up informative parent notes for each session so the parents would know our theme and poses we worked on each week as well as yoga games we played and illustrations and tips so the students could work on poses at home.

I would try out my lessons and ideas on my own children before my kids yoga classes. If my kids weren’t available, I would sit on my living room floor and run through my lessons out loud. By myself. I know this may sound completely overboard, but I really wanted to be prepared, and I truly wanted to help them learn and grow. I wanted to give these boys the best yoga experience I could.

After my first session ended the boys all signed up for my next session as well as twelve other kids. This quadrupled my roster! I was ecstatic. I had learned so much that first go round and was complexly hooked on the combination of teaching, yoga and kids.

Now hundreds of kids, yoga lessons and games later, I feel like I truly know what works for introducing and

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Go Go Yoga for Kids: A Complete Guide to Yoga With Kids

engaging kids through yoga. I am excited to share the knowledge I gained with you so you are able to empower the kids around you with all of the benefits and fun that yoga provides.

Go Go Yoga for Kids is on the move! Stick around, I am so thankful for you being a part of it!

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How to Create Your Own Thunderstorm With Kids

How to Create Your Own Thunderstorm With Kids

by | Apr 29, 2016 | Games, Kids Yoga Lesson Plan

Spring is here and with that comes the beautiful power of a rainstorm. I love a good rainstorm as it washes away the dirt, build up and leaves behind beauty, green, and a fresh start. It is fun create a thunderstorm with my kids yoga classes toward the end class right before settling into savasana.Spring is here and with that comes the beautiful power of a rainstorm. I love a good rainstorm as it washes away the dirt,  and leaves behind beauty, green, and a fresh start.

I love to create a thunderstorm with my students in my yoga class toward the end of class. The perfect time to do this is during the Community Building portion of the class which is right before settling into Savasana. If you are unsure of the correct sequence and important parts of a kids yoga lesson plan, then please check out our bestselling book, Go Go Yoga for Kids: A Complete Guide to Yoga with Kids. It breaks down the complete step by step to put together an engaging and memorable kids yoga class.

Creating a thunderstorm with kids completely quiets the class, mesmerizes them and they feel empowered as they are the ones that created it. This activity also utilizes many of your five senses which is wonderful in helping you feel aware and present.

How to Create a Thunderstorm:

Sit in a close circle with the lights off. Start with step one and the child on your right does what you are doing. Continue around the circle with each student adding to it. After the sound has made it around, continue onto step 2. I like this progression as it shows how the storm ebbs and flows.

  1. Snap your fingers (the sound of light rain falling)
  2. Clap your hands together
  3. Slap your hands on your legs (at this time a student can flick a light switch on and off to represent lightning). They love this part!
  4. Stomp your feet
  5. Slap your hands on your legs and stomp your feet (this represents the strength of the storm lessening)
  6. Stomp your feet
  7. Slap your hands on your legs
  8. Clap your hands together
  9. Snap your fingers
  10. Rub your hands together (the wind)
  11. Open your palms (all is quiet)

This is definitely a fun activity to do with a Kids Yoga Springtime or a Jungle Adventure Theme. Have fun with it. This is something that your kids yoga classes can do over and over again and still be amazed by it.

To learn more engaging activities and savasana secrets check out our  Kids Yoga & Mindfulness Teacher Training.

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Go Go Yoga for Kids Recommended Resources: Read Alouds, Props, Games, and More

by | Mar 31, 2016

Here are the tried and true recommendations of what works with teaching kids yoga! We have your best read-alouds, yoga props, and resources!Stop the guesswork! Here are the tried and true recommendations of what works with teaching kids yoga! We have your best read-alouds, yoga props, and resources!

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 BOOKS

Go Go Yoga for Kids: Yoga Lessons for Children

Go Go Yoga for Kids: A Complete Guide to Yoga with Kids

Kids Yoga Challege Pose Cards

Go Go Yoga for Kids: A Complete Guide to Yoga with Kids

Kids Yoga Challenge Pose Cards

The Giving Tree

Where the Wild Things Are

Commotion in the Ocean

Rumble in the Jungle

Pete the Cat

Angry Octopus

Downward Mule

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

I am Yoga

I Am Peace

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

The Great Kapok Tree

READ ALOUDS

ABC’s of Yoga for Kids

I am Yoga

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Commotion in the Ocean

From Head to Toe

Good Night Yoga

*See our Hungry Caterpillar Lesson Plan here.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub

Ten Monkey Jamboree

Mouse Count

My Many Colored Days

Peaceful Piggy Meditation

Pete the Cat

*Get our Kids Yoga Jungle Adventure Lesson Plan here.

Rumble in the Jungle

The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything

The Museum

The Runaway Bunny

Yoga Bear : Yoga for Youngsters

A Yoga Parade of Animals: A First Picture Book of Yoga for Children

Tiny Seed World

*Brown Bear lesson plan included in the Go Go Yoga for Kids book.

Brown Bear Brown Bear

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Downward Mule

I Am Peace

Meditate With Me

The Great Kapok Tree

I am peace

Have you filled a bucket today?

YOGA POSE CARDS

Kids Yoga Challenge Pose Cards

YOGA GAMES

Twister

See how to use Jenga Blocks with teaching kids yoga here.

 Jenga

YOGA PROPS

JBL Speaker

See our Beachball Kids Yoga Lesson Plan here.

Rainbow Beach Balls

Snowballs

Indoor/Outdoor Flexible Cones

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  • Perfect for introducing breathwork with kids

Chime

Pool Noodles:

These can be found on Amazon and are perfect for using to play Yoga Games such as Triangle Tag. I cut the noodles so they are around 12 inches long. This is the perfect for size for whomever is “It” to be able to safely tag the other children.

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