Yoga for Kids!

with Natalie Lott

4 Week Series

Wednesdays, 4:00-4:45pm

Through games and stories kids begin to explore yoga poses and breath work. In this four-week session kids learn various yoga poses, how to bring awareness to their breath and, most importantly, how to relax. This class is for kids 5 to 10 years old and is intended for kids without their parents. The intention is to give kids their own time to play with yoga and decompress from their hectic day!

Series Dates: June 4^th, June 11^th, June 18^th, and June 25th

Cost: $45 for series per child, $10 off each additional child.

Payment due in full by first session

Natalie Lott has been practicing yoga for seven years and completed 120 hours of teacher training with Mark Stephens in Santa Cruz. Her experience as an elementary school teacher has made her aware of the need to expose children to yoga at a young age. Kids face many challenges in school and our society to fit into a certain standard. Yoga gives them the opportunity to express themselves and release some of the stress placed upon them in today’s world. Natalie has taught yoga to kids in schools, and at various studios in the area. She believes that through yoga kids can learn compassion and self-respect.

  Toddler and Me Yoga

 Sundays 10:00-10:45 am

(beginning June 1^st)

Yoga for children, walking age up to age 5, and their parents. A fun class aimed at getting young children active in a way that stimulates creativity and imagination, and gets the whole family moving and stretching together. A good way to introduce healthy activity to small children,and allow parents to explore yoga in a fun, whimsical and noncompetitive manner.

Cost: $14 per child/parent, 5 classes/$55 or 10 classes/$100. Each additional child is $5 per class.

“Children come into this world very pure. It is up to the adults to help them stay bright, strong and healthy.”- H. H. Sri Swami Satchidananda

“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”  Laura Ingalls Wilder

Namaste,

We have a few changes this month with our instructors at the studio. We say goodbye to both Maya and Danielle as they are finishing with their studies this semester. Maya graduates from MIIS this month and the studio would like to congratulate her on her accomplishments!  Maya will be leaving the Monterey Peninsula to pursue other endeavors and we wish her the best along her journey.  Danielle will be away for the summer months and returning in the fall for her second year at MIIS.  We hope to have her resume teaching yoga classes when she returns. A big thank you to both Maya and Danielle for their gift of teaching and sharing their knowledge of yoga!

Danielle’s last class will be on Monday, May 5th.  The Monday 7pm class will continue, with Laura McKinnon teaching.

Please welcome David Barth! David will be taking over the Thursday evening class from 6-7:15pm. David has been a long time practicioner of yoga and recently completed his 200 hour Teacher training/Advanced Studies at Yoga High in Salinas.  He also brings a wealth of knowledge of the physical body to his yoga practice, as he is a Certified Massage Practicioner with 15 years of experience. The format of the thursday evening class will be similar to Maya’s, with incorporating basic alignment principles and breath awareness into the vinyasas.

Upcoming Workshops

Understanding Inversions with John Hayden

Saturday, May 3rd  1:30-4:30 pm $45

Click on link below for details

http://seasideyogasanctuary.com/blog/?page_id=4

Thai Yoga Massage with Michelle Spencer

Saturday, May 10th 1:30-4:30pm  $45

Click on link below for details

http://seasideyogasanctuary.com/blog/?page_id=4

Yoga with Elise Miller

Saturday, May 31st

Elise Miller is a senior certified Iyengar yoga instructor who specializes in yoga for scoliosis and the health of your spine.

Workshop topic and details to be announced soon. Please keep checking the events page on our website for the workshop announcement.

Prenatal Yoga with Michelle Spencer

The next six week series begins on May 13th.  Prenatal yoga to be held on Tuesday evenings from 6-8pm.  Cost is $85 for entire series or $16 per session.

6 Week Beginner Series

Next beginner series to start Wed, June 4th. Wednesday evenings from 5:30-6:30pm, $65.

Series dates: June 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th, July 2, and July 9.

Kid’s Yoga: 4 week Series

A yoga class just for kids! Ages 6-10.

Coming in June…. stay tuned for further details!

Toddler & Me Yoga

To return in June!  Class day & time to be announced.  Call or email the studio if you have suggestions of what time & day to offer this class.

For children that are walking age up to age 5 and their parents.  A fun class aimed at getting young children active in a way that stimulates creativity and imagination, and gets the whole family moving and stretching together. A good way to introduce healthy activity to small children, and allow parents to explore yoga in a fun, whimsical and noncompetitive manner.

“When the asana is correct, there is a lightness, a freedom. Freedom comes when every part of the body is active. Let us be free in whatever posture we are doing.  Let us be full in whatever we do.” B.K.S. Iyengar