Literacy in Yoga™ Early Childhood Educators teacher Training

 I developed this training program from currently working in the Early Childhood Education field for 18+ years, and currently teaching my Literacy in Yoga™ curriculum for 8+ years in various early childhood environment’s. The great advantage with my training over most other children’s yoga trainings, is that as an early childhood educator you’re already over 51% through the training without even starting. Here are the reasons I only offer my training to early childhood educators

• You already know your children’s strengths and challenges
• You understand where they are developmentally, and their developmental milestones
• You understand the different ways to foster and engage your children’s learning, and exploration
• You’re always looking for new and creative ideas to empower children’s individual learning
• You understand how to help children develop self-regulation skills
• You have numerous story books for children

The short version of what the training is all about

I will teach you how to turn any book into a Literacy in Yoga™ yoga adventure, by…

• Showing you what to look for in a book
• Structure of a yoga adventure and how to write up your sequence
• Different props you can use
• How to get the children involved in creating the yoga adventures
• The types of yoga adventures – the full yoga adventure, transition time yoga, yoga snacks, and anytime yoga
• How to bring developmentally appropriate mindfulness, relaxation time, and breathing exercises into your yoga adventure and beyond.
• Taking Literacy in Yoga™ from the indoor to the outdoor classroom
• Lists of resources

Why literacy-based yoga adventures? 

When we connect learning to movement it has a multiplicity affect upon children’s development. Here is a quote from Michigan State University

“Research suggests that promoting movement and activity in young children can help increase memory, perception, language, attention, emotion and even decision making. When language is combined with movement, learning increases 90 percent. Movement has also been shown to help calm and promote alertness in infants.” 

However, not only does a Yoga adventure need to benefit children’s development, it also needs to connect with children’s interests, and their explorations in the world around them. Including subjects like; science that helps to foster a deeper learning of nature, animals, and math that helps with problem solving, and developing their own spatial awareness. All these can be incorporated in a yoga adventure in creative ways, that young children can connect with.