Kids Yoga Collective provides tools to build a strong foundation for emotional, physical & mental wellbeing through movement, fun, stillness & mindfulness.
07/02/2022
Back to teaching kids yoga 💕 starting with my own little yogis’ preschool. Australia themed yoga to compliment a program exploring our country and what it is to belong. During this lesson we used First Nation’s story stones to create poses and koala breathing buddies 🐨 🙏
16/03/2018
With a heavy get excited heart, I wrapped up the physical side of teaching for maternity leave. Yoga is consistently about tuning into to what your body is telling you, not pushing further into injury but nudging beyond what you believe yourself capable, it teaches us the balancing act of being respectful towards yourself and reaching slightly above your limits to continually extend yourself. I'm always inviting the children to check in with themselves, they have control over their bodies, they want to feel stretch and strength but if they get to a point where they say "ow!" listen to that and go back to a point where that is not happening. Leading by example, opening the discussion a few weeks ago, I have been chatting with the children across centres explaining that body is getting to a point where it's telling me to stop, slow down and focus on the final growth of my bub and let my body rest. While we were all sad about it the children are excited about a visit sometime after the baby arrives and some have suggested I bring the baby in so we can all do baby yoga.
As the number of classes reduced over the last weeks, for my last two classes I invited any of the 3 and then 4 year olds who wanted to part take in one last class as a big group. Class sizes usually range from 8-12 but for these last two there were 26 x 3 year olds and 20 x 4 year olds. It's a reflection to their growth and practice over the past year and half and to the mutual respectful relationship between myself and the children that big these large group classes went cooperatively and smoothly with both fun and peace.
Ps. Also in the process of changing the name from Kula Yogis to Kids Yoga Collective. Having some issues with Facebook accepting the new name.
11/02/2018
The children have been wonderfully responsive to my new assistant, Meditation Bear (Meddy Teddy). The children have been awesome in following the visual cues from Meddy Teddy with verbal instructions from myself for poses that involve laying on their tummy. My growing baby bump offers an opportunity to lead by example when listening to what your body is saying and making modifications.
21/12/2017
Hope everyone has been enjoying the Xmas festive season! I know my little yogis have been with a yoga journey to the North Pole to help Elle the Elf pack presents as well as get Santa's reindeer and sleigh prepared. Depending on the age, time available and interest per group, a range of down time activities were on offer from moving breath snowballs to toe yoga (toega) where the children got there toes engaged by picking up the mini snow balls with their toes only. Warming up, we sang and moved to a yoga short version of yoga jingle bells and kept the bells on our wrists for most of the class to sound like Xmas.
15/11/2017
DiNoSaUr YoGa!
At one centre this week and last, the children hopped into their yoga time machines and were sent back over 200 million years ago to the time of the dinosaurs. On the back of cut out dino feet were a number of dinosaurs and related pictures for the children to bend, stretch, breathe and balance into such as Pterodactyl, Stegosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex, Saltopus, Brachiosaurus, Sarcosuchus, volcano, large trees and a dinosaur egg. After tucking into dinosaur egg pose the children rocked and rolled to crack the egg open and transform using their imagination into baby dinosaurs that grew into huge stomping dinosaurs. During this yoga experience, I encouraged the children to challenge and extend their balance further by inviting them to have a go lifting up into Pterodactyl on one leg, stretching up and walking on their toes for Brachiosaurus and holding tree pose a little longer than normal. During this, a number of children noted they wobbled and felt they "couldn't do it." I explained that wobbling is part of learning to balance and finding their centre, it is part of the process, developing a safe learning environment for the children to persevere and take time to develop and master skills.
14/11/2017
Kula Yogis is back! I've been away traveling for 4 months exploring 6 countries doing yoga in Indonesia, swimming in the sun in Croatia, catching ferries to small islands in Sweden, engaging in beginner French classes in France, paddling in lake in Canada and hiking in USA. So happy to be back seeing familiar faces and new ones through the week for kids yoga. I was greeted with large smiles and exclamations of the kids saying, "yoga!" Seemed appropriate to celebrate being back in Australia with Australian animals yoga. A few of the classes at the early learning centre we also exploring this, perfect!
19/05/2017
A nature yoga adventure for 15months to 4 year olds. Inspired by the exploration of the children's interest in nature, we built a nature park for this lesson doing the poses of each item or element as we added it.
15/05/2017
Basket of props for nature themed kids yoga this week!
28/03/2017
Mindfulness practice in childhood 💆🏽💆♂️🙏
21/03/2017
Ready for today's Mini Beast Yoga!!!
03/03/2017
Kula Yogis is back after a year contract as an ECT and teaching regular yoga lesssons at a number of daycares/preschool! Classes for 1-5 years. Monday's and Tuesday's open.