Please join me on Friday, October 4, 2013 from 10:00 to 4:00 p.m. at UDC Community College for a fun and informative one-day Yoga 4 Classrooms® Professional Development Workshop. The workshop gives you tools to help your students become more productive while creating a harmonious learning environment through integrating simple, fun yoga movement breaks, mindfulness activities and breathing exercises into your classroom day.
I am a DC-based yoga instructor and parent of a DCPS student. In both capacities, I've taught extra-curricular and enrichment yoga classes in a variety of settings: public and private schools, as part of the school day and within after-school care, for children as young as 2 and up to12 years. In nearly all cases, the teachers I've worked with are have been the biggest advocates of yoga for their students. Not only do these teachers know their kids enjoy their weekly yoga break, they see the benefits first hand: reduced tension and stress, increased concentration, focus, and attention span, and expanded imagination and creativity. The most common sentiment I hear from teachers is "I wish we could do more."
Yoga 4 Classrooms® was designed for those teachers. Y4C is not studio yoga in a school setting. There's no pushing aside desks and chairs; no unrolling yoga mats; no removing shoes; no visiting instructor; and no 30 or 40 minute yoga class. Yoga 4 Classrooms is yoga integrated throughout the school day.
Right at their desks, students can bring their body, mind, and breath together using adapted-for-the-classroom yoga postures and developmentally-appropriate mindfulness and meditation exercises. A 30-second breathing exercise can center an entire room. A 2-minute motor break can invigorate and focus a class for a quiz. A 5- or 10-minute activity can relax, de-stress, enliven, build confidence, create community, and more, depending on the needs of the group and the exercises chosen.
Yoga 4 Classrooms® was designed for those teachers. Y4C is not studio yoga in a school setting. There's no pushing aside desks and chairs; no unrolling yoga mats; no removing shoes; no visiting instructor; and no 30 or 40 minute yoga class. Yoga 4 Classrooms is yoga integrated throughout the school day.
Right at their desks, students can bring their body, mind, and breath together using adapted-for-the-classroom yoga postures and developmentally-appropriate mindfulness and meditation exercises. A 30-second breathing exercise can center an entire room. A 2-minute motor break can invigorate and focus a class for a quiz. A 5- or 10-minute activity can relax, de-stress, enliven, build confidence, create community, and more, depending on the needs of the group and the exercises chosen.
Yoga 4 Classrooms® is an evidence-based, low-cost, simple, effective and sustainable tool designed for classrooms, which facilitates students' physical, mental, emotional and social personal growth. Yoga 4 Classrooms® is anchored in well-validated evidence-based classroom pedagogies, developmental science, cross-sectional research in cognitive affective neuroscience, tenets of positive psychology and secular contemplative practices.
The workshop fee of $180 includes a fully-illustrated 230 page Yoga 4 Classrooms™ Manual
• 6 hr. interactive workshop (including lunch or dinner break)
• Fully-illustrated 230 pg. Y4C Manual
• A high quality 6x8" Yoga 4 Classrooms Card Deck illustrating the 67 yoga and mindfulness activities in the training
• Certificate of Completion
Feel free to circulate this message to anyone who might be interested and to contact me directly for more information.
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Jennifer Mueller
Jennifer Mueller
ChildLight Yoga and Yoga 4 Classrooms Trainer
E-RYT200, RCYT
Cell: 202-489-7368
453 Central Avenue, Suite 103
Dover, NH 03820
Main Office: 603-343-4116
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