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In this Yoga for Parents & Toddlers class, children and parents practice yoga together, sharing the benefits and enjoyment of yoga as a family activity! The classes are fun and playful, and at the same time teach valuable skills that help meet the challenges of everyday life.
The classes are open to toddlers from 20 months to 4 years of age.
• yoga animal postures
• fun animal noises and silly dancing
• breathing and stretching
• drawing and creative games
• movement and stillness
• relaxation
• and more…
The classes begin with several minutes of drawing to focus attention and stimulate creative energy. Then, kids and parents start to move! Downward dogs bark, cobras hiss, lions roar, crocodiles smile, and trees touch the sky!
 Yoga is an activity that can be enjoyed by both parents and children - memorable time shared in the midst of busy lives.
Yoga for kids classes invite many direct benefits to both children and parents:
• increase strength and flexibility
• improve body awareness and coordination
• reduce stress and tension, calms and centers
• promote greater self esteem and confidence
• develop focus and concentration
• encourage creative expression
• make new friends!
Techniques learned in class can be consciously applied in everyday life. For instance, breathing techniques are learned that can transform stress or anxiety into calm and stillness in stressful situations. Postures such as the balancing tree are held, thereby practicing sustained focus and concentration that can also be applied to other areas such as academics, sports and music. And finally, one of the greatest benefits is the time spent together!
All materials are provided.
Instructor: Kate Hudson
The yoga for children & parents classes are held on Wednesdays at 4:15 PM at Yogaspace.
For schedule, rate and registration information, please visit Kate Hudson's classes page.
 Kate is currently director and principle teacher with Little Lotus Yoga for Kids, who run training programs for Kids Yoga Teachers and workshops and classes for kids of all ages.
Kate has been practicing yoga since 1998, and started teaching in 2001 after completing the Integrative Yoga Therapy Teacher Training Program. Three years later she also became certified to teach prenatal yoga.
In her early years of teaching she taught at various locations including the NDG YMCA and different yoga studios in Montreal and the West Island. In 2005 she was inspired to open Ambaa Yoga Studio, and was co-director of Ambaa until 2009 when she decided to dedicate her time towards her yoga teaching and practice.
Kate has studied with many wonderful teachers over the years of her practice, including John Friend, Todd Norian, Rodney Yee, Seane Corne and Donna Farhi, these teachings and experiences widening and deepening her viewpoint of life and her understanding of yoga.
Over her years of practice, Kate has become an experienced teacher of all aspects of yoga including yoga asana, pranayama, meditation, energy anatomy and the underlying philosophies of yoga leading to a deeper and fuller understanding overall.
She was inspired to teach yoga to children and to moms and babies early on in her career, and over the years has come to the understanding that the children are really teaching her. She continues to learn from them how to be fully present in the moment, to approach life from a place of curiosity and exploration and above all to have fun! Her passion for kids yoga naturally led her to become certified in prenatal yoga in 2004.
Over the years Kate has witnessed the benefits of yoga for women during this time in their lives through the practice of yoga, in their abilities to be deeply present and connected to a deeper wisdom within themselves and with their child through the experience of pregnancy, childbirth and parenting. She loves to be able to follow her students and their children on their yoga journey through pregnancy, mom and baby yoga and eventually toddlers and children’s yoga.
Kate’s teaching approach is one that helps to bring her students into a place of observation and awareness of the movement of both body and mind in their practice, and into a deeper awareness of themselves. In her teaching of the postures the emphasis is on being fully present in the body and in themselves, bringing them into a state of inquiry, exploration and play, in which the whole organism can become liberated to find its own natural movements.
This practice can help to release tension and stress, and help to empower individuals to connect with their own strength and wisdom. In addition to asana practice, Kate’s teachings also include yogic breathing, chakra awareness, yoga philosophy and sharing and meditation.
Kate recently completed her studies at the Montreal Institute of Classical Homeopathy and is a practicing homeopath and member of the Association des Naturotherapeutes du Quebec.
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