Update 26/3/2021:

The Monday workshop is fully booked.

Tickets for Tuesday are still available. We're very much looking forward to spending a morning of Yoga and Mindfulness with your child.

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Yoga, Mindfulness and Art to support growing bodies and minds during April School Holidays.

About this Event

We're excited to be offering another choice of YOGAZEIT's popular Kids Yoga and Mindful Art School Holiday Workshop!

This workshop is all about celebrating our connection to the land.

We will be incorporating Aboriginal Australian inspired Art and Storytelling throughout those two days.

Choose from a 1day Workshop or 2day Retreat and support your youngest generation with tools to empower mental, physical and social Health and Wellness. One breath at a time.

This Yoga Day is filled with practices and stories to foster mindfulness for growing bodies and minds. Suitable for kids aged approx 4-12 years.

Kids will leave the workshop empowered with breathing and mindfulness tools that will help them at play and at school. Strictly limited spots.

What's the theme and Art element of this workshop?

Day 1: Using sticks, leaves, pods, shells, nuts, flowers and even your hands, we will create a masterpiece that is ready to hang!

Day 2:

After weaving yoga stories into our class while moving our body, we'll continue to research Aboriginal symbols, draw them on the stones and create our own stories. This activity highlights the significance of Indigenous and Aboriginal symbols while teaching creative thinking.

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About your facilitators:

Sharn: Coming from Aboriginal and Maori background, Sharn will help our young yogis to foster the connection to land, body, mind and breath. As a certified Yoga Teacher with specialist training in trauma-informed children's and teens yoga, Sharn guides children through beautiful storytelling while sharing about her culture and background.

Regina: Having guided hundreds of children through yoga and mindfulness, her creative and nurturing classes foster community, connection and belonging. She's the Executive Director of Yogazeit and a mum of 3 young yogis.

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Please get in touch if you hold a Concession Card or experience financial difficulties. Yogazeit is a Fremantle based Not for Profit organisation and charity. While this event is a key fundraiser for our Youth Programs, we'd love to support you and your family on your mindfulness journey. If finances are a barrier for your child to attend, please reach out. Email: Regina@yogazeit.com.au

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Benefits of Yoga and Mindfulness for Children

Research continues to show that yoga has positive benefits for overall health and wellness. Kids and teens both have a lot to gain from the movement and breath that yoga has to offer

Yoga supports physical fitness.

As a form of aerobic exercise, yoga provides a great option to help children and teens be active. Plus, as a non-competitive activity with low-aerobic intensity, yoga is ideal for growing bodies who may not feel comfortable participating in other sports.

Yoga supports the brain.

As kids and teens grow, their brains require support to help them not only learn and perform in school, but also to develop skills and habits to become balanced, healthy adults.

Yoga helps to reduce stress and anxiety.

Kids and teens are stressed.

In fact, according to the Telethon Kids Institute in partnership with Roy Morgan Research in 2013-14, one in seven children between the ages of 4 and 17 experience forms of anxiety or ADHD.

Physical activity is known to help relieve stress, but yoga may go further than exercise alone. Studies show that yoga has a positive effect on reducing stress and improving overall mental and emotional wellbeing.

Yoga improves sleep quality.

Research also shows that a regular yoga practice can improve sleep quality by decreasing sleep onset time and number of awakenings while increasing total sleep time, sleep efficiency, and subjective sleep quality. This is especially important for children and teens, who require sleep for healthy growth and development.

Yoga supports social-emotional learning.

Social emotional learning (SEL) addresses students’ social-emotional needs in the context of learning.

Through SEL, students master skills that are essential for success in school, work, and life.

Yoga provides students with the ability to identify who and how they are being and bring them into who and how they want to be.

Additionally, Yoga supports the children in the following ways:

Creativity - Play - Motor Skill Development - Sense of Identity - Body Image - Personal Safety - Acceptance - Emotions

Please note:

With purchasing a ticket to the Yoga and Mindfulness School Holiday Workshop acknowledge that Yoga includes physical movement. With purchase you release the Instructor and Yogazeit Ltd. from any liability as part of or consequence of attending this workshop. This includes damage to your child's property or physical injuries. You agree to inform Yogazeit Ltd. with the registration form about any medical restrictions your child may have which could impact her participation in this workshop.

COVID 19: Should your child be showing flu-like symptoms on the day of class or been exposed to COVID19 in any form, you need to contact Yogazeit Ltd. immediately. We'll then sort out a ticket credit for you.