CHILDREN'S YOGA

Information about the S.T.A.R. program

 

 

All Children’s Yoga classes are offered seasonally as a 10-week series in the Fall, Winter & Spring ($150).
Payments may be made by check made out to Yoga Mandala, mailed to 750 Main Street, Side Entrance, #2, Winchester, MA 01890 or ONLINE.

The world of our children and youth is filled to the brim with distractions of all kinds. This class encourages the young child to step away from the external diversions and participate more wholly in the process of learning to be in their bodies and discover the enchanting world of breath and song, rhythm and movement. Developed around the S.T.A.R. program (Success Through Accepting Responsibility), this class incorporates engaging yoga postures for the ‘busy’ body and meditation exercises for the young mind.

 

 

 

RADIANT CHILD YOGA TEACHER TRAINING

 

Are you interested in teaching yoga to children, or simply sharing your love of yoga with the children in your life? Register for Checka’s Radiant Child Yoga teacher training and certificate program to be held this spring at Yoga Mandala! Founded in 1999 by Shakta Kaur Khalsa, who has been teaching yoga for over three decades and was one of the three original pioneers to bring yoga for children in the United States, the Radiant Child Yoga Program (www.childrensyoga.com) includes a rich of assortment of tools that will help you to teach yoga to children. Along with instruction about basic poses and which kinds of movement are safe and appropriate for children of all ages, we will cover teaching strategies, yoga songs and games, and creative craft ideas. You will also learn about teaching yoga to children who are on the autism spectrum and children with sensory integration or attention deficit differences.  RCY training is open to all, regardless of previous yoga experience - parents, teachers, counselors, therapists, childcare providers, yoga enthusiasts, all supporters of children's well-being - everyone will have fun and leave with wonderful, practical, and highly relevant information.  For those participants who are already registered as RYT’s with the Yoga Alliance, this training will count as the first 20 hours towards the newly announced 95-hour Y.A. Children’s Yoga Specialty designation (RCYT).  Further modules in this 95-hour program will be offered regularly in MA by Shakta Kaur Khalsa (assisted by Checka) in the near future.  Tuition for full course $500 (includes over $130 of materials and follow up feedback on practicum hours).

Checka Antifonario (www.checkayoga.com), experienced teacher of children ranging from toddlers to teenagers, is one of twenty hand-picked Radiant Child Yoga facilitators worldwide.  She has spent over 200 hours training directly with Shakta Kaur Khalsa over several years.  It is an honor and great joy for Checka to be help aspiring children's yoga instructors to build their skill sets, find their voices as teachers, and move forward into work that they love!