Kat Grimmett has been practising Yoga since 1995 and teaching children's Yoga classes since 2018. Kat a qualified Yoga Teacher for both adults and children started the classes to share her love of yoga with her daughter Bella. Bella has loved being involved in creating the classes and she has offered many animated ideas towards the content of this book.
This book is a journey together of mother and daughter creating and practising years of children's yoga classes that engage children, connecting them with the seasons, nature and wildlife. Classes designed to open hearts to others by learning about different beliefs and ways of life and that also provide calm from the busy, sensory world that children can be exposed to.
This book is also an inspirational guide for children's yoga teachers, teachers and parents who want to teach yoga and its practises to children. It gives guidance from the first steps of becoming a qualified children's yoga teacher through to empowering teachers to write and deliver their own meaningful lessons.
Comprehensive information is provided on children, their different ages, abilities and developmental stages, along with advice on meeting these fundamental needs . A section is dedicated to children with special educational needs and guidance offered on helpful ways to meet these needs in a class.
Step by step information is shared on how to structure and plan children's yoga classes. Forty six different breathing exercises for children are detailed, giving explanation on how to guide children through the exercises with additional information on the many benefits they bring.
A chapter is dedicated to the relevance of warming the body to prepare for yoga postures and includes forty four different inventive ways to intwine these in this section of a class.
The asanas, yoga postures, form the main part of a yoga class. Forty two suggested children's yoga postures and instructions on how to practise these are detailed, along with content that illuminates the benefits they bring to children. This section also includes thirty eight different ways to introduce postures into a class in an appealing way.
Yoga is non competitive and the concept of working together with others is encouraged in a children's yoga class. Guidance is offered to teachers on ways to help nurture this supportive environment of each other, this includes thirty one different ideas on promoting this concept within a class.
Relaxation and meditation can offer skills that children can use in their everyday lives outside of the yoga class and that they can also take into adulthood. A chapter is dedicated to mindfulness and there are eighteen guided relaxation scripts included.
The last section of the book provides teachers with forty one enlightening individual lesson plans to help teachers get teaching. The lesson plans intend to give teachers and
parents confidence in delivering yoga to children whilst also bringing communities together to share joy, love, laughter and connection in yoga.
