Workshop Series: Self-Regulation, Restoration and Breathing Techniques for Children and Teenagers
Workshops for Parents and Professionals
Self-Regulation Skills, Restorative Yoga and Breathing Techniques are incredibly powerful to support children and teenagers to release tension and strong emotions, feel calm and grounded, focused or energised.
Learn how to creatively and effectively use specific techniques to support children, teenagers and families to soothe their nervous system, release tension and stress, relax their body and feel ease and focus in their mind.
1. Self-regulation Skills for Children & Teenagers
2. Restorative Yoga Practices for Teenagers
3. Breathing Techniques for Children, Teens & Families
- Sylvia, Relax Kids Coach
Specific Breathing techniques have the power to transform children and teens behaviour, energy levels and nervous systems. They can:
- Transform stress, anxiety and worry to feelings of being grounded and relaxed.
- Relieve physical discomfort, pain and tension headaches.
- Shift extreme tiredness, fatigue, lethargy and exhaustion to being awake, alert, energised and focused.
- Eliminate Irritability, anger or frustration within seconds.
- Move feelings of confusion and overwhelm to feeling secure and calm.
- Transform sensations of being physically hot to being cool and calm / feeling physically cold to warm and energised.
Are you a teacher, parent, childcare or health professional who wants to:
- Learn relatable and engaging breathing practices that help children and teenagers to regulate their own nervous system?
- Support 2-18 year olds to feel relaxed, settled and focused; give them the guidance and space to relax and re-store, all through breathing techniques?
- Help kids and teens to release physical discomfort, pain and tension caused by stress, screen-time, hormones, fatigue, life-style and their developing body?
- Gain specific breathwork techniques to rapidly support children and teenagers through frustrations, overwhelm, anxiety, confusion, lethargy and daily challenges in life?
- Share practical and relevant strategies with 2-18 years olds that they can use independently and on-the-spot when they need to regulate themselves during daily challenges and difficult emotions or experiences?
- How to make breathing practices interesting, engaging and playful for young children and how to make these practices meaningful and relevant for teenagers
- Understand how, when and why to use specific breathing techniques to best support children and teens with their specific challenges and difficulties, and teach them how to do these independently?
"I am so excited to use my new skills and tools in my classes. I have taken several of Laura’s online trainings and they have also been fantastic! I look forward to continuing my studies and practice with her "
- Kristy, Yoga Teacher
" Laura is an amazing teacher who is
passionate about yoga. Most importantly, she is a generous soul who
shares all her skills and knowledge about kids' yoga, which enable us to
support the children's well-being, emotional and mental growth! "
- Grace, Yoga Teacher
What Will You Learn During This 2-Hour Workshop?
- Understand the most beneficial breathing techniques to work with kids' nervous systems and alleviate specific problems, physically and mentally; how to effectively and safely guide children and teenagers through each practice
- Understand which breathing techniques are most beneficial for each age group and which ones to avoid.
- Gain specific teaching skills so that you can best guide children and teenagers, including appropriate language, the best props and poses to use with each technique.
- Offer variations and modifications for each age group so that you can make each breathing technique appropriate, relevant and safe
- How to support children and teenagers to feel relaxed, at ease and settled so that their body, mind and nervous system can restore and regulate.
- Create and lead specialised Pranyama (breathwork) classes and workshops for teenagers and families.
- How to integrate specific breathing practices into your daily work with teenagers, classrooms or your family-life at home.
- Learn how to teach children and teens how, when and where they can use these practices independently in their daily schedule and during challenging times.
"Laura is passionate about kids yoga and this is infectious. I have learnt so much, without even being aware of it. I am very grateful to have found Divine Light online."
- Alison, Parent
"Laura
is simply...changing the world, one child at a time!
You can expect a
full toolbox on how to teach hands on teaching daily, and feeling fully
empowered to go out there and do it."
- Audrey, Parent & Yoga Teacher
INVESTMENT
Workshop Series: Access to 3 x workshops and recordings all focused on supporting children and teenagers through challenging experiences and emotions through specific practices:
Workshop one: Self-Regulation Skills for Children and Teens
Workshop Two: Restorative Yoga For Teenagers
Workshop Three: Breathing Techniques for Children, Teens And Families (Tues 21st November)
3-Part Series. Get Access to all workshops: $99usd
"I
gave one of Laura's free courses a go and I was hooked! I learned so much
in that 45 minutes that I couldn’t wait for more.
I would highly recommend any/all
of Laura’s courses, you won’t be disappointed".
- Annika, Children's Behaviour Coach
"Laura is brilliant. She is very approachable & knowledgeable. She is very easy to listen to and the workshop was well laid out, well planned and brilliantly delivered"
- Zeina, School Teacher
Your Teacher
Laura is an experienced Yoga Alliance Registered Teacher (E-RYT 500-Hour, RCYT 95-Hour) having
attended over 1000-hours of teacher trainings in Therapeutic Yoga,
Vinyasa Yoga, Ayuveda Yoga Therapy, Yin & Restorative Yoga, Yoga
Therapy for Anxiety & Depression, Pre-Natal Yoga and Children's Yoga, and 10-years yoga teaching experience with children, teens, adults and families.
Prior to teaching yoga, Laura was an international primary school teacher; with a BA Degree in Education and Special Needs and over 20 years experience of working with children in educational and therapeutic settings throughout Asia and the UK.
Working with a range of educational
curriculums and philosophies including, Montessori, Reggio Emilia and
the UK Foundation Stage Curriculum, has enabled Laura to create a unique
form of Children’s Yoga and Well-Being as she combines her knowledge of
educational
philosophy and teaching methodology with the practices of
yoga and Ayurveda, and therapeutic practices and growth mindset
strategies to effectively support both the physiology and psychology of
children and teens.
Laura's approach to children's yoga is therapeutic, educational, creative and playful. She
is committed to life-long learning and to sharing her passion and
knowledge of education and yoga with others; she is dedicated to
supporting children and young people to become well-balanced, resilient,
open-minded, compassionate individuals by sharing the philosophy and teachings of yoga across all areas of the World.
Course Curriculum
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