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Expert SCHOOL Kids Yoga Teacher, Kelly Wood, interview – Arroyo Magazine

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There are a growing number of caring people learning how to teach Kids Yoga today.  It is of utmost importance that yoga and meditation be taught in a manner that aligns with academics and improved learning.  In others words, you need training and years of experience to translate contemplative methods in accessible ways that influence positive behavior.  

I began teaching Kids Yoga in my studio (Karuna Yoga) as well as in Los Angeles Unified School District classrooms in 2002. ...

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Kelly Wood Interview – VoyageLA

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Please read a bit more about how SCHOOL Kids Yoga has made its way into public schools as a tool for learning with heart.  VoyageLA interviewed Kelly Wood founder of SCHOOL, Inc. on 5/23/17.

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SCHOOL KIDS YOGA & MINDFULNESS AND COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS

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SCHOOL KIDS YOGA & MINDFULNESS AND COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS

The Common Core State Standards provide benchmarks for learning by grade level, K-12. Teachers understandably like to have some level of freedom in how they deliver subject matter to students as their creativity and improvisation have the ability to heighten motivation to learn. Many teachers these days are finding the balance between meeting Common Core State Standards and bringing their unique teaching skills into the classroom. In simple terms, it seems to me that this ...

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Mindfulness & Calm Hearts – Kids Yoga in Elementary Schools

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I teach SCHOOL Kids Yoga & Mindfulness classes at Esperanza Elementary, located in downtown Los Angeles in the Westlake area. I have been volunteering at Esperanza since 2006 and have developed wonderful relationships with the teachers. I am honored that they allow me into their classrooms, making time for 20-minutes of calm moving, calm breathing, and being together with calm hearts.

As I was waiting for the 1st graders to conclude lunch and make their way ...

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Kids Yoga & Mindfulness in Public Schools – Our Hearts are a Gift

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Kids Yoga & Mindfulness in Public Schools – Our Hearts are a Gift

Today’s teaching schedule included seven Kids Yoga classes in three different schools. As I walked into the sixth class, the second graders were scampering to follow their wonderful public school teacher’s instructions to close their books, put pencils onto the top of their notebooks, push in their chairs, and make their way to the rug for our SCHOOL Kids Yoga & Mindfulness class. I walk by children moving here and there, and notice one girl ...

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Calm Hearts Help Others – Kids Yoga with Purpose

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Calm Hearts Help Others – Kids Yoga with Purpose

SCHOOL Kids Yoga & Mindfulness weekly classes are more than just postures. If I wanted to teach postures, the classes would need to be entitled playful stretching, creative movement or something along those lines. If one teaches yoga, there are several limbs of the practice that must be included and the cohesiveness understood between the various limbs. A yoga teacher, whether for adults or for children, must help students understand how and why to practice. To dispel ...

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Calm Hearts Appeal to Children

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I just finished teaching three of the eight SCHOOL Kids Yoga & Mindfulness classes for today. Going into public schools for over 13 years and teaching to elementary aged children has provided quite a wealth of experience. It is safe to say that the approach I take with these amazing inner city kids works. The essence of the practice, the reason to practice, the motivation to practice is to have a calm heart. ...

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Children’s Yoga in Public Schools – LAUSD

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Children’s Yoga in Public Schools – LAUSD

Yoga in Public Schools – Los Angeles Unified School District. Experienced children’s yoga teacher, Kelly Wood.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-schware/yoga-for-youth_b_5597177.html

This is an interview with Kelly Wood, who opened Karuna Yoga studio in Los Angeles in 2002. Since the opening of the studio, she has taught kids yoga classes with consistent attendance. Parents who were taking her adult yoga classes asked if she would consider going into their child’s public school classroom to teach kids yoga. In 2002, she began teaching ...

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Kelly Wood Interviewed on Radio Talk Show, Out on a Limb

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Kelly Wood Interviewed on Radio Talk Show, Out on a Limb

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Please listen to a joyful and informative interview with Kelly Wood, on the radio show Out on a Limb with Sarah Vogel. Kelly shares her experience teaching mindfulness to children in Los Angeles public elementary schools.

Kelly Wood has trained to be a yoga teacher, but she is a storyteller at heart. This is how she has approached ...

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Whole Life Times Article on Kelly’s Kids Yoga

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