Yoga for Kids
Offerings
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Kids Yoga Classes
Kids yoga teaches mindfulness, emotional regulation techniques, embodiment and presence to help children face the challenges of modern life with ease…and to have a good time while we’re at it! Yogiful kids yoga is playful, inclusive and FUN!
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Kids Yoga Videos
Yogiful provides online kids yoga videos and resources to educate students, parents, caretakers and educators on mindfulness and emotional regulation techniques that improve the mental health and overall wellness of our youth and society at large.
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Kids Yoga Teacher Training
Join our Yoga Alliance approved, Children’s Yoga Teacher Training (RCYS-95) in Costa Rica, June 10-21, 2022! Help spread the power of mindfulness, emotional regulation and play to the children in your community.
Upcoming Events
“Kids yoga creates lasting positive impact in the hearts and minds of our youth.” - Lauren
Why Yoga for Kids?
Improving Children’s Mental Health
We are experiencing a worldwide mental health crisis, especially as it relates to our youth. 1 in 5 children ages 13-18 have, or will have a serious mental health illness. While more than 60% of children with major depression do not receive any mental health treatment, yoga and mindfulness have the potential to help.
Kids yoga equips youth with awareness, emotional intelligence and healthy coping mechanisms to face the challenges of modern life. What would happen if all children learned emotional regulation and mindfulness tools before learning the alphabet?
We all have the power to help - by offering children the tools and resources that they need to keep a healthy body, mind and spirit.
Benefits of Kids Yoga
Kids yoga is a playful activity that has students giggling, cooperating, and gaining compassion for themselves, their peers, and the world. Yoga is a non-competitive practice that can increase confidence, compassion, and emotional regulation while leaving participants beaming from the inside out.
Some benefits of children’s yoga include:
Builds confidence, positive body image, and awareness of self
Improves attention and sensory awareness
Increases strength, balance, patience and compassion
Reduces stress, anxiety and depression
Supports a healthy immune system
Calms the central nervous system / improves emotional regulation
Helps brain development / improves executive thinking in prefrontal cortex
Supports a healthy respiratory system
Helps keep a healthy gut
What is Inclusive Yoga?
Yoga for Every Body
At Yogiful, we use inclusive language and celebrate the fact that all bodies can practice yoga! Together, we honor bodies of all shapes, sizes, colors and capabilities. We enthusiastically include one another, no matter our differences.
We communicate if/when gender neutral bathrooms are available for students, and have a zero tolerance policy for bullying or discrimination of any kind, from students, teachers and parents.
LGBTQ+, Minority &
Underrepresented Youth
Yogiful is dedicated to a lifelong journey of fostering inclusivity and social justice within kids yoga. Our offerings are accessible to kids from all walks of life through scholarships. We have never turned a child away who wanted to practice.
LGBTQ kids and youth of color disproportionately struggle with the children’s mental health crisis in the USA. Yoga has immense capacity to improve children’s mental health. Inclusive yoga provides a brave space for kids of all colors and identities to practice emotional regulation, mindfulness and play, together.
Why Yogiful?
Yogiful teaches yoga, mindfulness and emotional regulation techniques to children, in order to build tomorrow’s future leaders into compassionate, conscious and confident stewards of community. Yogiful’s kids yoga is inclusive, playful and FUN!
The Yogiful experience is like an imagination-filled roller coaster ride. Sometimes we imagine ourselves to be a helicopter flying to a magic garden, and sometimes we are relaxing our central nervous system through emotional regulation practices.
Whether we are giggling uncontrollably while rolling around on the ground, acting like our favorite animal, or calming our central nervous system through guided relaxations on a rainbow, kids yoga is sure to bring more peace and fun to all participants.
Yogiful encourages children to be in their truest self-expression while learning tools for emotional regulation, social emotional learning, and cognitive development. Our programming teaches children how to navigate everyday emotions and feelings in a mindful way.
Meet Lauren
Lauren Moon (she/her/hers) is the founder of Yogiful. Lauren's goal is to foster a new wave of mindful leaders, starting with our youth. Her passion and purpose is to teach children the powerful existence one can have while living in the present moment.
Lauren exudes joy, positivity, imagination, inspiration and humor throughout her teachings. Her programming is fun and engaging, while teaching necessary skills to handle the stress of modern life.
Lauren is committed to a lifelong journey of advocating for inclusivity and social justice within the kids yoga community. With Yogiful, she strives to serve kids of all walks of life, including LGBTQ and minority youth.
Credentials: RCYT, RCYS (through partnership with Kids Yoga Guide), RYT 200, E-RYT 200, Acroyoga Instructor.
Beyond Babysitting
This is our most popular kids yoga offering!
What is Beyond Babysitting?
Beyond Babysitting is a 3-hour kids yoga party with Yogiful! Beyond Babysitting is best utilized for a 3-hour date night out for parents!
What is a Kids Yoga Party?
Kids enjoy yoga and mindfulness activities mixed with dancing, snacks, movement, games, crafts, group activities, stories, and LOTS of fun.
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