The Kids Yoga Resource

Celebrate the release of Yoga for Children at seacoast area book signings and family yoga events with Lisa Flynn!

2013-05-29T23:14:33-04:00

Lisa Flynn, E-RYT, RCYT, Founder of ChildLight Yoga® and Yoga 4 Classrooms® in Dover, NH, has created a helpful resource for parents, educators and others who wish to give their children the gift of holistic health using yoga-based tools for living: Yoga for Children: 200+ Yoga Poses, Breathing Exercises, and Meditations for Healthier, Happier, More Resilient Children (F+W/Adams Media, May 2013).   

Raising Spiritual Kids - lessons from yoga

2013-03-24T16:01:08-04:00

What Yoga Taught Me About Raising Spiritual Kids is a fresh article, published in Elephant Journal by Mary Rekosh, a freelance writer, a ChildLight Yoga Certified Instructor teaching at Bend Yoga Charlottesville, and a Yoga 4 Classrooms trainer. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE As a ChildLight Yoga certified kids yoga teacher, and also a Yoga 4 Classrooms Trainer, excited to bring yoga and mindfulness to schools in her area, Mary offers her advice on enhancing and supporting spiritual lives of all children, regardless of their religious upbringing. Below is a short excerpt from this great article, featuring principles from ChildLight Yoga...

Yoga for Children: 200+ Yoga Poses, Breathing Exercises and Meditations for Healthier, Happier, More Resilient Children

2013-03-04T09:07:54-05:00

Help your kids de-stress and get healthy with Lisa Flynn's new book titled, Yoga for Children: 200+ Yoga Poses, Breathing Exercises and Meditations for Healthier, Happier, More Resilient Children! Pre-sale price guarantee of up to 41% saving on your pre-sale copy - Order yours today online at Amazon or Barnes & Noble.

7 Ways to Be an Emotionally Attentive Parent, Caregiver or Teacher

2013-01-31T14:17:00-05:00

We are so used to hearing it: being an emotionally intelligent, attentive and mindful parent, caregiver or teacher helps foster resilience and well-being in children. But what does it really mean and why is it important? Caring for your kids and being emotionally attentive to them is not the same thing. All parents are emotionally neglectful toward their kids sometimes, whether they realize it or not, and so are teachers. The key is to understand how insidious the damage from that neglect can be over time. Children who are emotionally neglected often grow up to have a multitude of issues...

Play, community and openness to experience at the heart of ChildLight Yoga Teacher Training

2013-01-15T10:00:00-05:00

ChildLight Yoga Teacher Training is an incredibly fun, interactive and educational experience, with a passion for yoga and a love for children is at the core of this training. Owner of Spiral Tree Yoga & Wellness in Portland, ME shares her recent experience at the ChildLight Yoga Teacher Training on her blog: "With an amazing group of women I was fully immersed into playing like a child, seeing the world from a child’s eyes, and from a ‘tween and teen-like' perspective. We gave gone through so much laughter, joy, play and yoga, breath and mindfulness that felt so so light...