In all these years that I’ve been teaching, one of my main goals has been to bring yoga into the school day. When I taught in San Francisco all those years ago, I was lucky enough to teach at McKinley Elementary School through a program called California Pacific Medical Center Health Champions. It was a phenomenal program. I was able to go into the school during the day and teach first and second graders weekly. These photos were from parents night where we got to show off all the yoga they were learning. That was 10 years ago, so these kids are probably graduating high school right now! Ten years later, and it is still one of my number one goals as a kids yoga business owner and teacher. In New Haven, there is a program that is a partnership between United Way of Greater New Haven, New Haven Public Schools, and the City… Read More »
Teaching Yoga with Zephyr
I have been practicing yoga for almost 20 years now. I started when I moved to Boston from Miami (where I went to college) and was trying desperately as a 20-something to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. I was waiting tables and teaching in a preschool and was a little bit lost. One of the moms of my students was a yoga teacher and told me I should come take a class with her. My life was changed! I did Rodney Yee videos, took classes when I could and started to transform my life as I knew it. Yoga got me through graduate school and when I became a first grade teacher in Coney Island in Brooklyn, it was then I realized how much kids just connected with yoga. I’m sure I had hopes and dreams of my future children practicing yoga with me. Fast forward to… Read More »
Sharing the LOVE – Through Peace, Joy & Kid’s Yoga Teacher Trainings~
Back in 2006 while I was still living in San Francisco, I had many people ask me if I could train them to teach yoga to kids. Surprisingly, there was not too many of us doing this work yet. So my friend Rosey and I decided to create our own 8 hour Kids Yoga Teacher Training. Fast forward to 2015, my Full of Joy Yoga Kids Yoga teacher training is now 20 hours with the hopes to increase it to 25 hours in the near future. It has been one of the biggest joys of my biz. I have trained hundreds of people from CA to CT – think of all the kiddos who get to benefit from all of these kids yoga teachers? It’s mind boggling actually. I really do this work because I have high hopes for the future generation. If all of us can incorporate just a little… Read More »
