Teacher Training: Specialized for Yoga Teachers Working with Children
The Core Yoga in Schools trainings were developed for yoga teachers, parents and teachers interested in teaching yoga to children K-12. They were inspired by a deep commitment to bringing yoga to children in schools.
The training and the manuals created for the trainings have been influenced by my having attended other trainings for teaching children, Yoga Ed, Karma Kids Yoga, the Penn Resiliency Curriculum, Positive Psychology for High School Students and Kripalu's Yoga in Schools research project training. The development has been influenced by personal work with Cheri Huber and the Zen Monastery Peace Center, Landmark Forum, the Practicum in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and by previous curricula I have written for presenting yoga to children including curricula for Streta Yoga Center in Needham, Arlington High School, a joint project with Deborah Van Handel, the BeYoga manual, and early research efforts with Sat Bir Khalsa studying the effects of yoga on children in schools including the curriculum for the first year of Kripalu's Yoga in Schools research project. Finally, the foundation for the training is nearly ten years experience teaching yoga to children in schools and the desire both to share from this experience and to create the space and time to consider well how to approach this work thoughtfully and effectively.
