Yoga at Home: warm-up song

Today we’re sharing our favorite song for creating the space for our yoga classes, “Rub your Hands” by Karma Kids Yoga.

* Ask your kiddos to find their yoga seats and settle into a comfortable seated position with lots of room around their bodies. They can sit on the floor, a yoga mat or a pillow for a bit more support. Offer them variations of their yoga seat like cross-legged pose (Sukhasana), Hero’s Pose (Virasana) or Half Lotus (Padmasana).

* Talk with them about practicing yoga, what it means and create some safety agreements before you begin.

* Start the song and do a motion for each part of the song: you don’t need to explain the motions, just demonstrate and your little yogis should be able to follow along.

“Rub your hands”Rub hands together creating friction and warmth.

“Sit up tall”Lightly press hands into knees, lengthen the spine and roll shoulders down.

“Take a deep breath”Bring hands to prayer pose, close eyes and inhale to allow chest to expand and shoulders to rise.

“Om”Exhale by chanting the sound “Om” bring hands back to knees.

 

* After a few times, you can vary motions to include side bends, forward folds, any poses you like. This works especially well with older kids who may tire of the repetition of sitting in cross-legged pose for an extended amount of time.

 

Benefits:

Chanting helps develop concentration, calm the nervous system, and helps bring balance to the body.

Rhythmic breathing alleviates stress, oxygenates the brain, strengthen lung capacity and build respiratory endurance.

Yoga poses help build good posture habits, stretch the knee joints and build flexibility and strength.

Try it out and let us know what you think!

,
Kru Rosie

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Visiting Chiang Mai

Each year we are visited by new students from around the world and this last year was no exception as kids from Korea, Spain, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore, Germany, the United States, Mexico, Canada, the UK, France and more came to join our programs.

Chiang Mai is a magical intersection of intersections and in recent years the offerings for children and families have risen substantially. Full day trips, new play-friendly cafes and an abundance of special course offerings help offer families creative options for education and childcare while travelling.

If your planning a trip to Chiang Mai we highly recommend these guides by local writers and long-time residents:

  1. Lonely Planet : What to do with Kids in Chiang Mai
  2. Chiang Mai Family Guide- 10 awesome things to do in Chiang Mai with Kids
  3. Cape Kantary V. 23 – Community Crossroads 

 

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Of course you are also welcome to come by and see us and we’ll have plenty of recommendations as well!

A class for the teachers

It’s happening. Kids Yoga Garden is about to host a course that I’ve been dreaming up for years now. A course that demystifies the world of “kids yoga,” a course that taps into the inner child joy in all of us, a course that is accessible to people from all sorts of backgrounds due to translators, compassionate facilitation, and affordability.

Join us for an Introduction to Teaching Kids Yoga: An Intensive Workshop September 29-30 2018 for all this, and much more. As a co-founder of Kids Yoga Garden I’ve gathered the essential building blocks for understanding this world and relating it to different audiences to create new spaces for community and interaction. I cannot wait to share it with you.

 

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The course will cover :

 

1. What is Yoga for children? 

Participants will learn the benefits of kids yoga and how to articulate those benefits to adults. We will learn ways to explain yoga to children and get tips on age appropriate development focuses.

2. How to a create safe and engaging learning environment: 

Learn techniques for classroom management, how to set the space and foster growth despite the busy atmosphere of a kindergarten / primary level classroom. How do we set expectations that create safety for all participants with freedom to be as one needs to be? This section of the course will deal directly with these questions.

3. Identify age appropriate yoga asanas (poses): 

Dive into the structure of poses and examine the language used to bring them to life for our students. We will discuss the kind of adjustment and modeling that is appropriate for these ages and start to think about the energetic and physical results of said movements.

4. Guiding mindfulness and meditation techniques: 

Learn to guide child-focused meditations and games which can help foster inner quiet and peace. Explore props and music that can be used to signal quiet times and reflection.

5. Creating Storytelling Yoga Lessons:

One of the most effective way to immerse children into a yoga class is by bringing them through a storyline or adventure. This section of the course will enable the discovery of the energetic arch of a class and begin to place asanas into an order that starts and begins with mindful moments for meaningful exploration. We will discuss themes, books and music that bring the imagination into the yoga class.

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Course Times: 

Saturday and Sunday September 29-30, 9 am – 5 pm

Investment:

Regular: 5,000 THB

Early bird (before September 7): 4,000 THB

 

Upon completion of this course, attendees will be awarded certificates for the 16 hour course. Further opportunities like class shadowing lead teachers and additional workshops will follow. 

Yoga for Mamas-to-be

This June we have lots of special offerings in the garden, one that we are just bursting about is our new Prenatal course offering. For 3 consecutive weeks we will host workshop styled classes specially designed for Moms-to-be! Prenatal Yoga Course (1) offering. For 3 consecutive weeks we will host workshop styled classes specially designed for Moms-to-be!

Each class will last 2 hours and will include elements of hypno birthing, pranayama (breathwork), dynamic yet gentle yoga sequences, restorative yoga poses and deep relaxation. Spaces are limited to 10 participants to ensure a safe and spacious environment and drop-ins will not be available.

During pregnancy your body goes through many changes creating stress mentally and physically. Prenatal yoga helps to maintain a healthy mind and body with many benefits including

+ Improved sleep
+ Reduces stress
+ Increased strength, flexibility and endurance
+ Decreased lower back pain
+ Calm nausea
+ Reduce the incident of headaches

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Weekly Offerings

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Each week we have activities for each member of the family, join us for a stretch of the mind, body and creative spirit!

Kids Yoga: 1 hour yoga classes for 3- 10 year olds

Adult Yoga Flow: 1 hour all ages and levels welcome for hatha vinyasa

Mom & Me Circle: Yoga and art for our younger learners (1 year – 3 years) and their mamas (or papas)

Ebb & Flow Yoga: dynamic yoga flow for experienced practitioners 18 yrs +

Weekend Camp: 3-12 year olds full day of activity based learning with special workshops around art and sustainability.

October Break Camp

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We’ve got a whole lot of fun lined up for your child’s October breaks! Join us starting September 25 onwards for explorations of Tinker Transportation, Wild Weather, Mindfulness for Minis and Halloween Harvest. We will be joined by our buddies at Auntie Orn’s Organic Cooking and some other very special facilitators for special subjects and sustainability.

 

Shampoo making

 

This weekend we had the pleasure of hosting Auntie Orn in our kitchen for an all-natural shampoo making workshop.

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First we recorded our garden fresh ingredients in pictures and words.

Then we designed our bottle packaging and named our shampoo, ‘Dove’, ‘Eat Me’, and ‘Song kran’ were some of our favorite titles.

Next, we added our ingredients to a large bowl to prepare for boiling.

image2Once the mixture was cooled, we used our hands to squeeze ‘Ban Me’ leaves and release the soapy consistency into the liquid.

 

Finally, we strained our fragrant mixture and bottled it to take home.

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Thanks Auntie Orn for the visit, we can’t wait for our next Sustainability for Kids workshop! See you on Saturday for soap-making!

 

 

 

June Activities

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We are so excited to announce a new addition to our Saturday Weekend Camp Schedule, Auntie Orn of Auntie Orn’s Organic family cooking. She will be joining us from 2-4 p.m. each week to help us learn ways to bring more sustainable practices to our daily lives! This will include natural shampoo making, bio char soap making, organic cooking, composting, eco brick making and much more! The fun starts next weekend!

Children age 3-10 are welcome to join. Weekend camp runs 10 am – 4 pm and is available by drop-in, half-day and full day rates.

Saturdays Schedule:
10-11 : Kid’s Yoga
11-11:30 : Snack Break
11:30 -12:30: Art
12:30-1:30: Lunch Break
1:30 -2: Play
2- 3: Sustainable Science/ Cooking pt.1
3-3:15: Snack
3:15-4: Sustainable Science/ Cooking pt.2

+++Space is limited to 10 students +++

ตารางใหม่ของโปรแกรมในช่วงเสาร์อาทิตย์ออกแล้วนะคะ! อาทิตย์นี้ป้าออนจาก Orn’s Organic family cooking จะมาร่วมกับเราตั้งแต่ 14.00-16.00 น. ในแต่ละสัปดาห์เพื่อช่วยให้เราเรียนรู้วิธีที่จะนำแนวทางปฏิบัติที่ยั่งยืนมาสู่ชีวิตประจำวันของเรามากขึ้น หรือที่เข้าใจกันง่ายๆคือการใช้วัตถุดิบปลอดสารพิษนั้นเอง! จะรวมถึงการทำแชมพูกับสบู่ธรรมชาติ ่และการทำอาหารชีวภาพทำปุ๋ยอินทรีย์หมักการทำอิฐและอื่น ๆ อีกมากมาย! ความสนุกเริ่มต้นวันหยุดสุดสัปดาห์ที่กำลังมาถึงนี้!
เด็กอายุ 3-10 ขวบ
วันหยุดสุดสัปดาห์จะเปิดให้บริการตั้งแต่ 10.00 น. – 16.00 น. ราคามีทั้งแบบ Drop off , ครึ่งวันและเต็มวัน
วันเสาร์:
10-11: โยคะสำหรับเด็ก
11-11: 30: พักทานขนม
11:30 น. – 12:30 น. ศิลปะ
12: 30-1: 30: Lunch Break
1:30 -2: พักเล่น
2- 3: วิทยาศาสตร์ / การทำอาหารจากวัตถุดิบปลอดสารพิษ pt.1
3-3: 15: ขนมขบเคี้ยว
3: 15-4: วิทยาศาสตร์ / การทำอาหารจากวัตถุดิบปลอดสารพิษ pt.2

พื้นที่ จำกัด ไม่เกิน 10 คน +++18902787_10209794950530545_602429215_n

We will be whipping up some delicious treats and decorating them with the help of Love to Bake Bakery รับทำเค้กฟองดองตามออเดอร์ on Sunday June 11th. Don’t miss this fun workshop on fondant animal sculpting to make incredible edible art!

Ages 3-10 welcome, 10-11 am
Drop-in: 350 baht
Half Day: (10 am -1 pm): 600 baht
Full Day: (10 am – 4 pm): 1000 baht

-Space limited to 9 participants-

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