Teach Yoga to Kids with Joanne Spence
March 2-4, 2012 Teach Yoga to Kids with Joanne Spence and Yoga Pretzels
Teach Yoga to Kids with Joanne Spence and Yoga Pretzels
March 2-4, 2012
Friday, 7:00pm-9:00pm
Sat, 9:00am-12:00pm and 1:30pm -4:00pm
Sun, 9:00am-11:30am
Cost: $190 for the whole course, individual session prices below
No Yoga Experience Required
Each session Joanne will use her expertise and sense of humor to bring out your inner-child as you work through the Yoga Pretzels to help you build fun and interesting sequences to address the needs of children in a multitude of settings. Each session will be a combination of lecture and movement.
This course is ideal for:
- - Parents to use with their children
- - OTs, PTs, School Counselors, Mental Health Specialists to use with their students
- - Teachers to use with typical or special-needs students
- - Yoga Teachers who want an introduction to teaching yoga to children
Through the yoga practices and the cards you will learn to:
- - tune in and focus
- - be playful and creative with friends
- - feel poised, composed and aligned
- - become stable, strong and grounded
- - reach, release and flex
- - be supple, open and trustful
- - twist, turn and extend
- - have fun working together
- - unwind, rest and revive
Friday, 7:00pm-9:00pm $45 Register Now
Intro to Yoga for Kids, Why Yoga is Good for Kids, How to Get Started
Saturday, 9:00am-12:00pm $55 Register Now
Making it Playful & Juicy, Keeping it Simple
Saturday, 1:30pm -4:00pm $50 Register Now
Building Sequences, Staying Engaged
Sunday, 9:00am-11:30am $50 Register Now
Addressing Challenges, How to Make a Living Teaching Kids
Required Reading:
Yoga Pretzels – 50 Fun Yoga Activities for Kids & Grown-ups (soon available at Savannah Yoga Boutique)
Suggested Reading:
Yoga for Emotional Balance by Bo Forbes
What to Bring:
yoga mat, props if you use them, snacks, water, a notebook and pen and your Yoga Pretzel Cards
If you do not have any yoga experience, you may benefit from practicing some of the sequences on Joanne’s “Absolute Beginner Yoga DVD” (available on Amazon or Savannah Yoga Boutique).
Joanne Spence, BSW, ERYT is the founder and Executive Director of Yoga in Schools (YIS), an award-winning non-profit organization that serves kids and teachers, empowering them to learn yoga as a lifetime wellness skill. Joanne and her team have reached nearly 20,000 children since 2005 by training, supporting and resourcing teachers. Joanne teaches wellness and yoga workshops nationally and internationally, she is also a frequent presenter at national educational conferences and at the world-renowned Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, Lennox, MA.
Joanne lives with her husband and three children in Pittsburgh, PA where she works part-time as a yoga therapist at Western Psychiatric Clinic and Institute with adults and children. In her spare time she runs Yoga on the Square. The favorite part of her job(s) is introducing people to yoga who have never considered that they could or should! When not teaching yoga, she loves to be outdoors for as long as possible communing with nature and her rambunctious family.
