Kids Yoga Resources For Parents & Teachers

~A Guest Post~

Anita is an enthusiastic kids yoga teacher in Ontario and also blogs at Organic Yoga Mom. We are thrilled that she has agreed to do a Kids Yoga series for us at Healthy Green Moms so that we can learn more about introducing yoga to our children, teaching kids yoga and whatever else comes to her mind!

There are two awesome free resources to help you along your journey of introducing your children to yoga or if you are already teaching kids yoga classes. If you live in an area where there are no local classes, these resources should help inspire you.

The first resource is Marsha Wenig’s site Yoga Kids. I was lucky enough to spend some time in a class with her this spring at the Yoga Conference in Toronto. There were probably about 300 folks in the room but with Marsha’s down to earth style I felt like it was a classroom of ten. Her energy and exuberance even 20 years down the path, was such a delight to be around. Although I spent such a relatively short time with her I was excited to get back to my own classrooms with all sorts of new ideas buzzing through my head.

Yoga Kids sends out a weekly email of kid’s yoga poses. If you haven’t already, I would highly recommend you head on over to Yoga Kid’s free email sign up to take advantage of these pose suggestions. The emails will arrive weekly with a full description of the pose, instructions on how it’s done, as well as a section of activity ideas for home and the classroom. These moves are generally geared to the 6-12 age range but can be used for younger or older children as well. If you like the first one or two of these and decide that Marsha’s style is one you want to see more of, all the moves are contained in a fantastic book she has published called Yoga Kids – Educating The Whole Child Through Yoga. I have the book and use it all the time.

Another excellent resource that I frequently use is a Canadian blog Teaching Kids Yoga. Aruna often has some really great advice for your classes but she also blogs about is something which I think is super important and that is the business side of being a yoga teacher. I have not come across any other blogs which offer help in that way so if you want to teach or do so already, and you want to build your business you should absolutely head over to Teaching Kids Yoga. I have used many of her tips for my classes and she often helps me move toward a direction that I wouldn’t have necessarily thought about on my own. Even if you aren’t looking for business tips she still offers a lot of great games and skill building ideas. The past few weeks she has also had a ton of Yoga DVD giveaways.

I hope you find these two resources useful and that you get a touch of the inspiration that I get from them. Please share with us what you think of these. If you have some other great resources we’d love to hear about them!

Tagged as: Kids health, Yoga