Engaging The Child Through Yoga
Explore an alternative educational method of how to design and teach a Yoga class for kids based on the science of creativity 
and imagination, Yoga, and the somatic movement methods of Body Mind Centering® and Felenkrais® as channels to engage the child.
Pedagogical Approach
The learning and teaching have a "horizontal approach." Teacher and student are engaged in a dynamic relationship and learning from each other.
As teaching pedagogy to children, the evolutionary movement of human beings (ontogenetic) and its parallel with the animal kingdom (phylogenetic) are keystones to facilitate ease in movementand neural organization. Teachers or facilitators will be able to diagnose problems when some of these developmental stages are skipped.
Instead of overwhelming the children with external corrections, they will be able to understand body-mind movement from this more developmental comprehensive perspective.
Teaching and Learning Styles:
How to work with our differences
As teachers and facilitators, it is important to know your natural style of teaching. This means what body system and sense organ is mostly active, if your style is more improvisational or structured, and to know how to read the different learning styles from children. Knowing that some kids will be more visual learners, others more auditory, cortical or mental, and kinesthetical.
The awareness and use of the sense organs and engagement of different body systems set an important ground for learning and teaching.
Play As Ground For Learning
Using the action of play and functional games as a way to teach and learn will improve concentration, group dynamic, rhythm, and creativity.
Partner Work And Props
The work with a partner and the use of props will facilitate body awareness, relationship, and socialization.
Based on the Iyengar methodology, the use of props can facilitate ease of movement and further connection to the inner body and its natural rhythm so the yoga asanas can evolve with grace.