By Dean Telano
- Feb 8, 2020
- 3 min read

Kind Karma® Kids Yoga. Youth Empowerment of Wholeness: YEOW.

"Kind Karma® Kids Yoga World Initiative: Youth Empowerment Of Wholeness (YEOW). YEOW promotes youth empowerment through kind karma kid's yoga, awaken with meditation, mindfulness, awaken qigong, gong & sound therapy (GST), positive thinking and visualization, energy therapy, and interconnectivity with nature (through shamanic themed events)."

Why Teach Yoga to Children?

On of the best ways to establish emotional harmony, and to help the body, mind, and spirit to mature together is to teach children yoga. It's our role as Kind Karma Rahini Yoga® Teachers to inspire children to practice yoga, to spread the healing benefits of yoga, and to teach both parents and children how to incorporate yoga into their everyday lives.

Benefits of Yoga for Kids

Yoga teaches self-acceptance.
Increases feelings of being part of a healthy, non-competitive group.
Teaches mindfulness.
Teaches situational calming techniques and coping breathing exercises.
Helps children to manage stress through breathing, awareness, meditation and movement.
Improves physical strength, stamina and flexibility.
Refines balance and coordination.
Teaches kids how to use their bodies in a health way, improves body posture and promotes healthy body awareness.
Develops focus and concentration.
Enhances mental clarity and memory.
Boost self-esteem and confidence, and promotes a positive self-image.
Acts as an alternative to tuning out through constant attachment to electronic devices.
Fosters better relationships with family, teachers and friends.
Strengthens the mind-body connection.

Kind Karma Kids Yoga teaches children the benefits of Gong & Sound Therapy (GST). Learning how to play the Gong and sound instruments fosters self confidence, boosts self-esteem and self compassion. of sound healing.

All kids can learn how use the Gong. Children love playing the Gong and other sound instruments and it's easy to learn!

Yoga Benefits for TEACHERS In a Classroom, School or Study Setting:

Helps to prevent teacher burnout by offering stress relief, tension release, and reduction in anxiety.
Promotes calmness, relaxation and equanimity.
Teachers can receive the physical benefits of yoga for themselves: improvements in strength, flexibility, circulation, posture, core health, and balance; and reduction in lower back, neck or joint discomfort.
Improves self-control through controlled breathing and controlled movement.
The practice of conscious breathing provides a ready solution for many challenges during the school day.
Helps teachers to focus or sharpen their power of concentration.
Sharing a yoga practice with their class often gives teachers a new perspective on their students as individuals and as group members.
Helps teachers enhance awareness of their own energy levels and how it’s affected by times of the day, meals interactions, interruptions and daily stressors.
Yoga helps teachers to explore their own ability to control their responses to stressful situations.
Helps teachers to integrate yoga tools into their lives, anywhere, anytime.

Kind Karma® Kids Rahini Yoga® Training: "Foundation Course"

This Foundational Course Leads into Our 95-Hour Yoga Alliance Children's Teacher Training Program (The Training Hours from the this Course Modules Goes Towards the 95 Hours.
This course is a prerequisite for our Yoga Alliance 95-Hour Training.

"We Provide You with the Skills, Tools & Confidence to Teach Yoga to Children." - Dean Telano, Founder

Kind Karma® Kids Yoga Program Overview

Our Kind Karma® Kids Yoga Foundation Course is dedicated to providing yoga teachers and all those who love working with kids, the tools, skills and confidence needed to create a safe and compassionate yoga class for children ages 2 to teens. This course provides fun-filled, engaging ideas that are beneficial for kids of all ages. Our method of teaching yoga to children incorporates the use of animated yoga poses, props, music, art, games, storytelling and the imagination, to help stimulate their senses as well as stretch and strengthen their developing bodies.

The Kind Karma® Kids Yoga approach uses creative techniques to keep children of all ages engaged in their yoga practice. We incorporate a lot of fun into each class, while encouraging kids to be positive, relaxed and centered.

*You do NOT need to be a Certified Yoga Teacher to Attend our FOUNDATION Kid's Yoga Teacher Training Course. Anyone who Loves Working with Children May Enroll.

Our Kind Karma Kids Yoga Course serves:

* Yoga Teachers * School Teachers * Parents * Physical Education Teachers * Physical Therapists * Occupational Therapists * Health-Care Professionals * Nurses * Psychologists * Social Workers * Camp Counselors * Dance Teachers * Babysitters

Even if you are already experienced in teaching yoga to children, this course is a great way to add innovative and fun ideas to your class.