PRESCHOOL YOGA

Storytime Yoga for Early Learning Centres across Auckland

Offering kids yoga in your childcare centre brings with it a host of benefits for the children, your staff and your early childhood centre. 

By incorporating a centre-based kids yoga preschool program, you begin to cultivate a calm and relaxed environment for both the children and your staff. Not only do the children benefit from a regular yoga and mindfulness practice, but you can boost your enrolments too. 

Little Yogis Storytime Yoga

Kids yoga classes give children a chance to move their bodies, have fun, and learn about being mindful and their breath in a safe and supportive environment. Children's yoga classes are designed to help kids develop strength, flexibility and coordination while learning about their magical breath and how it helps them to self soothe and build resilience. 

Yoga for children has been shown to improve emotional regulation and challenging behaviours, reduce stress and cultivate a general sense of wellbeing. 

Our toddler yoga and children's yoga classes are the best yoga for kids’ classes you can offer.

If you're looking for a way to boost
enrolment and provide a healthy learning environment consider offering in-school yoga for kids

Here's why: 

WEEKLY CLASSES

Classes are run by highly trained kids yoga teachers who are passionate about kids AND yoga.

Each class combines traditional yoga techniques with breathing exercises, stories, music, imagination and mindfulness to create a unique kids yoga experience.

These classes encourage children to discover their inner potential in a non-threatening environment and to feel good about themselves, both inside and out.

Our business model partners with centres that choose yoga because of it’s many worthwhile gifts. What differentiates Kids Yoga from other large motor activities is it’s additional focus on deep breathing, mindfulness and meditation.

These experiences equip young children with tools to help manage anxiety and stress, such as separation anxiety and social challenges. We passionately believe that such tools should be offered to every child.

BENEFITS OF OUR LITTLE YOGIS PROGRAM

develop balance, strength and body awareness
build toned and supple muscles
understand the magic of their breath
increase their concentration, focus and attention
nurture their imagination and creativity
build self-esteem and confidence in a non-competitive environment
develop personal tools for stress management
enjoy increased self awareness
learn compassion and co-operation
respect others and the environment
learn basic anatomy and physiology

WHAT TO EXPECT

Classes are held once/week and are run according to the Auckland school terms, usually in 10 week blocks.

Session times can be tailored to suit your centre's needs and typically would include:

under 2's - 20 minutes
2-3 year olds – 20 minutes
3-5 year olds – 30 minutes

Yoga warm up and breathing exercises, followed by yoga poses (done individually, in partners and in groups), yoga games, mindfulness activities and relaxation.

Classes are themed based on the children’s interests, books, and kindergarten curriculum. For example, Diwali, Halloween, Christmas, NAIDOC and books such as Wombat Stew etc.

Let us show you what a kids Yoga class is like with our free trial session!

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Developing School Readiness by:

Yoga can help children develop the appropriate skills required for optimal learning in school:

Self-confidence – yoga builds self-love, increases feel good endorphins, improves athletic performance, helps with focus and teaches children to let go.
Self-regulation – yoga teaches children how to identify their emotions and gives them techniques to help self-regulate.
Receptive language – yoga teaches children how to follow verbal instructions on how to perform the yoga poses and follow class rules.
Expressive language – our yoga classes are interactive, where we ask the children questions. These helps deveop their communication skills.
Social skills – our yoga classes include partner and group yoga poses and activities. These encourages the development of social skills in children
Gross motor skills – yoga encourages development of body awareness, helping build good core, back, legs and arms strength. It helps develop co-ordination, balance and flexibility.
Independence – our yoga classes follow a routine of warm up, breathing, yoga poses, games and relaxation. As the children gests used to the routine, they start to develop independence, requiring less assistance and prompting.

What others are saying about us...

Jan

Fairleigh Kindergarten

"We have been very impressed with the little Yogis programme introduced by the very talented Donna here at the kindergarten. Our teachers here have been involved also and see the benefits for the children attending Little Yogis each week. The creative and interesting sessions are really well planned and thought out. They are really fun and playful but all they also provide the children with a platform for calm 7 promotes relaxation. W e receive lovely feedback from parents sharing what they have learned providing a shared link with families in our community.

Thank Donna we have loved your sessions every week we look forward to you coming in and playing yoga."

Libby

Cathedral Grammar School

"We love the Little Yogis Programme coming every week to see us. They are always filled with such fun and we love the way Donna engages with the children. Each lesson has a heartfelt theme to teach our children about themselves and how to navigate the world around them. Donna's classes are always well thoughout and incorporate the centres learning focuses too. Not only do the children love these classes the parents see the benefits too. They share stories of their children introducing them to the calming techniques they have learned in yoga and how to name what they are feeling and how to navigate them. Donna is very creative with her classes, and is always a lot of fun. I highly recommend her and her programme for your centre"

I am a fully trained KidsYoga Teacher with over 15 years of experience teaching in Christchurch, Auckland, Australia and the UK.

I love teaching these fun classes and I can't wait to share them with you.

Donna x

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