Your Yoga Toolkit - Early Childhood Yoga Bundle
30 days to embedding yoga practices in your early childhood environment.
Impact the wellbeing of children by starting your consistant yoga program today!
✔ This 30 day bundle gives you the opportunity to facilitate yoga daily without having to devise a plan.
✔ Learn what The 5 Elements of Yoga are & how you can embed these into your daily program.
✔ Create full mat time yoga sessions or break up The 5 Elements into bitesize chunks to intersperse throughout your day.
Daily checklist printout to assist you with embedding practices. Tick off each time you implement an element of your program, assisting you to embed yoga into your day.
30 days of a holistic yoga wellbeing program ready to use right now!
No planning required!
Just implement each session plan per day.
PDF Yoga Play Wellbeing Warrior certificate for each child in your early learning environment who have learnt the magical tools of yoga to assist their wellbeing.
"It's a life saver for a teacher like me who struggles with creative class plan ideas"
-Shuyu Katrina
30 days to embedding yoga is easier than you think!
✔ Do you love the idea of a yoga program but don't have time to research what type of yoga poses or breathing activities to do with the children?
✔ Have you heard about how much children love yoga but you don't really have the confidence or know-how to create your own program?
✔ This 30 day yoga program has it all laid out for you!
✔ All you need is a basic level of mobility so that you can bend and move with the children. The rest is done for you!
✔ Your Yoga Toolkit Program has all the practices you need to embed a holistic yoga wellbeing program.
✔ Done daily, this program will see you achieving amazing results within your room.
What amazing results can you hope to achieve?
Children will:
✔ Learn how to calm themselves down when experiencing big feelings so they feel more in control.
✔ Learn to focus better so they are able to see an activity through to the end.
✔ Learn how to read their own emotions and thoughts with awareness so they are able to manage self control better.
✔ Begin to connect more to the mind, body experience which enables them to recognise how they feel mentally & physically so they have better wellbeing outcomes.
✔ Connect more to the world around them, so they become more aware of their community & the environment they live in.
You will:
✔ Benefit from all this as the facilitator, as you practice your yoga program with the children.
✔ Start to connect more to the mind, body concept as well.
✔ See your overall early childhood environment start to shift into a calmer state.
No need to think about what to do with the children!
It's all laid out in this very easy to follow session plan guide book.
All you have to do is to read up on what is in your daily session plan, then go ahead and implement it with the children!
Its easy!
Each session plan involves short 5-10 minutes sequences for each of the elements of your yoga program, so that you can facilitate in short increments throughout the day or as a full session, which lasts about 30 minutes.
You decide how you will use the session plans - whole group sessions or smaller incidental experiences.
By doing these practices daily, you are giving children tools they can use now and into their future.
Why not start tomorrow so that children can be empowered now, to support their own wellbeing and you can enjoy calmer, more regulated environments that support children's emotional & social wellbeing.
This 30 day holistic yoga program gives you 20 daily session plans, which includes these elements:
1.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness is embedded into everything we do in yoga.
2.
Movement
Yoga poses, yoga dances, yoga fun!
This is basically the movement we do in the session.
Connecting movement with breath is the most important way to understand & connect to our body more deeply.
3.
Breathing activities
A very important part of the program to allow children to connect to their physiological body better.
Breathing correctly is the number one way to manage stress.
4.
Meditation
Done daily with a singing bowl or chimes.
This simple meditation is the number 1 thing you must include every day!
5.
Affirmations
Negative self talk can be self sabotaging.
Teach children how to positively talk to themselves for greater personal empowerment.
6.
Relaxation
Relaxation time can be a challenge but with a thoughtful approach which is engaging, you will have children resting for extended periods of time.
This is more than a session plan.
Your Yoga Toolkit Program aims to assist you in embedding yoga practices daily.
How?
We all know how busy our day can be in education & care.
By implementing a checklist system you and the children can participate in ticking off your daily elements with the aim to simply keep you accountable so you don't forget any of them!
All these elements encompass to create a holistic and meaningful yoga practice.
When you give out the Wellbeing Warrior Certificate after the 30 days, it is a beautiful reminder to children of what they have learnt, so this is imprinted into their memory. They will often share what they have learnt with their families in the home environment. Share your sessions plans with families too!
Daily Checklist
Pin it to your wall!
Each of the elements of your holistic wellbeing program are listed on this checklist.
Invite the children to tick off each time you implement an element, so that it helps you to embed these practices.
Daily implementation of all these elements ensures you are delivering a program that suits all learners as well as reinforcing the learning.
The more we practice something, the more we remember the information.
Remember, all 5 elements of breathing, relaxation, meditation, movement & affirmations don't need to be done altogether. You can break these up and embed throughout your day alongside other transition, routine and play times.
For example, taking some deep breaths before your story time is a perfect way of embedding yoga practices.
Yoga Play Wellbeing Warrior Certificate
Print out this certificate for all the children who participate in the 30 day yoga wellbeing program.
This certificate reminds children to be a Wellbeing Warrior and to use their yoga tools anytime they need to feel better.
As we focus on developing our inner being, our outer world begins to shift.
You may notice a calmer environment overall, more kindness between the children, better focus and increased capability of managing feelings.
By being the facilitator, you too will notice the change.
Gradually over time, you will begin to step into your own essence of becoming more mindful and become your very own Wellbeing Warrior!
Would you love to feel like you know what you are doing when facilitating a yoga session?
Would you like a children's yoga program already created for you?
Would you like to impact children's wellbeing & create calmer environments?
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Who are these session plans bundle for?
The program is suited to early childhood environments only, unless you have a certification in yoga. If you are certified in yoga, then this program is suited to any cohort you work with.
Why, if I'm not trained in yoga should I not facilitate it with older children?
Because very young children have a good range of flexibility & are already moving their bodies in many ways and most early learning environments are already playing with some basic yoga poses (off Youtube, for example). Early childhood educators are already facilitating drama, dance, singing, creative movement and more, which are elements of this program. Early childhood educators are trained to guide young children through a range of movement already.
For older children who's bodies are starting to change, it is advisable to be trained in yoga so that you can support this age group safely & more age appropriately.
What if I don't know much about yoga, can I still implement a yoga program for early childhood?
The only prerequisite is to have some basic mobility.
If you can dance around with children, sit on the floor, participate in games or action songs, then this program is completely appropriate. The program requirements are to have an open mind and to implement what you can. Each element of the daily yoga program is accompanied by a brief on what to do. If you are unsure what a particular yoga pose looks like, for example, 'dog pose', a quick online search in images will help to clarify.
Everything else is there for you to take action right now!
What is the Checklist for?
The purpose of the Checklist is to assist you with embedding your practice. Sometimes we get busy and things slide by. By ticking off each day what you have achieved, you not only gain a sense of satisfaction when you have implemented your yoga program but it helps you to stay accountable. Invite the children to tick off each time you finish one of the elements of your program. They will love helping you to stay accountable! It also gives them a true sense of connecting to their yoga practice.
How do I use the Yoga Play Wellbeing Warrior certificate?
The certificate can be given to each child at the end of the 30 day program, as a reminder of the tools they learnt to help promote positive wellbeing for themselves.
I'm interested in learning more about yoga so that I can create my own sessions confidently.
Taking the next step can be overwhelming for many educators but that's ok!
Contact Nic Russell - info@southeastyogaandwellbeing if you are interested in further professional development for your early childhood setting.
We all have to start somewhere and I have just the program for you to help you continue your journey.
Your Yoga Toolkit Course is the next step. This is a course where we unpack the elements of an holistic wellbeing program so that you can confidently facilitate and create your own yoga sessions.
We unpack 10 session plans completely, so that you have the knowledge to understand what a holistic yoga session looks like.
This is a self paced course that can be done over a period of time. Each video is only approximately 15 minutes so that viewing can fit in with your busy day!
Plus you will receive the 10 session plans in a downloadable ebook guide.
A great 'how to' course which aims to empower you to embed yoga into your early childhood programs.
Join here -Your Yoga Toolkit Course
Hi, I'm Nic!
I am an early childhood educator of 30 years, a practising yogi of 20 years and a mother of 3.
My mission is to empower early childhood educators to facilitate yoga in their early childhood environments so that they support & enhance children's wellbeing.
I believe yoga will promote healthy social & emotional developmental outcomes which assists in the transition to school, setting them up to become happier & healthier.
You’ll find me in my element when I’m spruiking the benefits of yoga to the world of early childhood.
I wholeheartedly believe that yoga at this young age will set children up to manage their mental health wellbeing so that they become mindfully healthy citizens of the next generation.
Imagine the power in that! Imagine if every child is given the magic of yoga at such a young age.
Giving children these tools earlier rather than later could potentially have such positive outcomes; to themselves and our society.
A world full of future happier adults who were taught how to self regulate, balance their nervous systems and work with awareness through the clutter of their mind as children! It is possible!
Ask any adult who has done yoga and they will tell you how it’s made a difference to their wellbeing.
I envision a future world of kinder and more tolerant people.
