Maybe you are you a Kids Yoga Teacher who has had to pivot to online classes.
Perhaps you are wanting to get started teaching yoga to children online?
Are you looking for ways to connect with your students and keep them engaged and learning while being online.
If you don’t want to limit your class to those that expressed interest through email, you can also go Live with Youtube, Instagram andFacebook.
There are benefits to both a scheduled meeting or going Live. The most important thing is that you are sharing the fun and joy of yoga to children!
Quick Start To How to Teach Yoga Online
Using Zoom is an easy way to teach online. Many people have become more comfortable with Zoom in the last few months. Below is a quick overview on how to get started.
Set up a Zoom meeting. You can create an account for free.
Schedule a meeting (day & time)
Copy the invitation
Send the invitation to people in an email. They will be able to easily click on the link and join the meeting at your scheduled time.
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Make sure that you have good lighting (natural light works well!)
Clear the area around you. A cluttered area will be distracting for your students.
Be Audible. I have my Blue Yeti Microphone that I plug into my laptop. You do not need to have that, but it is important to speak clearly.
I have my favorite JBL USB Speaker JBL USB Speaker to use for music. This inexpensive little gem is one of my favorite things to use when teaching kids yoga!
Be sure that you are closer to the microphone then the speaker. It is more important that the kids hear you as opposed to the music.
The Go Go Yoga for Kids resources are invaluable when I teach online! The Kids Yoga Challenge Pose Cards are very helpful for my online classes because you can easily show them to the kids.
They can see up close the pose and what it looks like before they actually do it. I will make a sequence for a yoga flow and show them each pose with the cards before we do the flow.
With the lesson plans books, I can pick and choose what I want to use online for my kids yoga classes.
I like to use some of the ways suggested in how to incorporate using a storybook in the class. I find books that we can do yoga poses with them.
As I read the book, I show the pose card, and then we do the pose. I even used the mindfulness project and showed them step by step on how to make a mindfulness jar. (Go Go Yoga for Kids: Yoga Lessons for Children).
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The Reading IQ App has saved us during these Covid-19 times when libraries and schools have been closed. Finding new and interesting books for Max to read has been a breeze. He loves this reading app for kids so much that he chooses to read on his own…something that never happened before.
Even as this is not exactly kids yoga, it is still whole child well being-related. As an elementary teacher, I am sharing this in hopes it may help some of you. Kids need to be reading. Everyday.
Honestly, it always kind of dismayed me that Max had never been excited about reading before. As a teacher and book lover myself, I really wanted to instill the love of reading in him.
When this didn’t happen naturally, I began setting the microwave for 20-minute increments hoping he would just get “lost in the story”. Instead, this resulted in Max popping his head up every minute to see “how much time was left.” Hopin until he started using this Reading IQ App a little over a year ago. This app has made him fall in love with reading — something I never thought would be possible after years of trying to get him to want to read for fun!
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He has proudly announced multiple times about how many minutes he has read over the course of time.
We were both so impressed this that we decided to look into their Adventure Academy which is a virtual learning opportunity for kids elementary through junior high. If you have a child that loves video games, they will love playing and learning with Adventure Academy (and I love that they are Adventure Academy things as well).
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It plays a lot like an adventure game (think Zelda!) but within an educational framework. It’s really cool and I would recommend this reading app for kids to all!
Welcome to our Spring Easter Family Yoga Class. Together we are going to learn and practice some fun Spring yoga for kids poses and games that can be done at any time and are fun for all ages!
This Kids Yoga Class is geared toward children ages 3-10. I have my helpers and I know that they are little older, but they still love to have fun with yoga.
1. What words or things do you know about Spring? What happens outside and with the animals? Discuss with the children. This helps activate their prior knowledge and sets the tone and theme of the class.
2. Move into Child’s Pose. Pretend to be a little seed in the ground. Feel the warm sun on your back and slowly begin to grow. What are you going to grow into? A flower? A tree? Something in your garden?
Pretend to be a seed in the ground. Feel the warm sun on your back. What will you grow into?
3. Now let’s practiceBunny Breathing. Breathing exercises can help calm anxiety and regulate emotions. Take one long inhale through your nose and then exhale with 3 short sniffs. Like a bunny!
4. Now let’s warm up the whole body with some Egg Rolls. It is important for your body and mind to participate in some Active Movement every day. This gets your heart pumping and happy!
5. Now it is time learn and practice our Spring Easter Yoga Poses! Draw out a plastic egg and inside will have a pose for us to practice! Find a full list of yoga poses here. We have practiced Flower Pose, Butterfly Pose and Tree Pose.
6. Now we have worked warmed up our body, practiced Bunny Breath and Yoga Poses, it is time to work on some balance! Balance is very important in yoga because as you get older, you lose your sense of balance. The good news is that it can be maintained by practicing some yoga poses. We are going to use our plastic eggs for balance! You can use whatever you have at home.
Easter Egg Balance: Remember this is not a race! Your goal is to go slowly and mindfully and to not let your Easter Egg fall!
First, let’s practice balancing the egg on your outstretched hand. Remember to switch hands when you get across the room.
Now let’s practice on your shoulder, under your chin, or top of your head! Where else can you think to balance your egg?
7. Finally, we are going to end our yoga class with a little mindfulness practice! Mindfulness is paying attention on mindfulness on purpose. Let’s shake these Easter Eggs one by one, listen carefully, and see if you can guess what is inside! This is a good practice of slowing down and being mindful.
