We provide trauma informed yoga using creativity, compassion, and a trauma sensitive approach to provide all youth a safe place, empowering them to connect with themselves and the world around them.
We strive to make each yoga class and session safe, empowering, gentle, structured, fun and creative.
What Does Kid Yoga Look Like?
While kids yoga classes use asanas (postures) and pranayama (breath), unlike adult classes incorporation of art, music, games, and other creative activities help produce a fun and lasting yoga practice for youth. Each class includes activities to create mindfulness and noise, as well as utilizing all the senses. All classes focus on how poses and activities feel in our bodies, rather than what they look like and proper alignment.
Trauma Informed Kid Yoga
A kid yoga class with a trauma sensitive approach encourages your child to be who they are, and allows them to have control over what a class and session looks and feels like. Giving children permission to explore different postures, and mindfulness activities encourages them to try new ways to self-regulate, problem solve, work as a team, show self-confidence and self-expression, and learn new coping skills and body awareness. This makes it so they are able to make their yoga practice truly unique and beneficial to them. This also allows for improved self-belief and connection with their internal and external world. By using invitation and choice language (i.e. if you like, if you’re comfortable, when you’re ready) this lets your child move at their own pace, and even within their own comfort level.
As a feeling of safety and awareness develops, your child will be encouraged to explore things beyond their immediate comfort level. We all process and develop at our own pace. Learning these imperative skills as a youth is critical to not only healing from trauma, but becoming a self-aware, mindful adult.
