Children Teach Adults at Light Leaders Teacher Traning

Children Teach Adults at Light Leaders Teacher Traning
Children join us in Teacher Trainng

Sunday, August 30, 2009

LIGHT LEADERS - CHILDREN'S YOGA FOR TEACHERS

http://wwwlightleadersyoga.com


What is Light Leaders?


We are a Teacher Training program for studios, schools and communities who wish to bring the valuable practice of yoga to children. As individual teachers, we have been priviliged to be at the front lines of the Children's Yoga Movement, teaching children and youth for several years now, at Golden Bridge Yoga in Hollywood, in public and private schools, in community centers, children’s homes, churches, temples, juvenile detention centers, rehabs and hospitals.

In the past few years, we have noticed a rapidly growing demand (actually surpassing the supply) for solid, experienced and devoted yoga teachers for youth. We recently pooled our combined experience and resources and decided to pass it on in the form of Light Leaders, our teacher training program.

With concrete evidence that yoga and meditation helps improve children's overall performance in school, we know the need for yoga teachers there will soon increase a hundred-fold. We also know that for children living in the stress of today's world, yoga helps kick out any surplus of negativity, fear, anxiety, anger, depression and other undeserved pressures which trickle down onto their young spirits from society. Yoga and meditation are some of the best tools to instill confidence, concentration, and self-discipline. We know that when children feel calm, confident, and loved they can succeed.

We have direct experience with the effects that this powerful yoga has on our students and we have noted ongoing progress in their lives as a result of a weekly practice. We feel it is our unwavering obligation to share and spread these teachings and techniques to you. Let's help to create healing communities for the next generation across the world.

If your community has a need for yoga teachers, we are here to help. Please contact us.

Blaire Baron & Crystal D'Angora
Los Angeles, CA

WHAT WE DO
Crystal and Blaire come to your community and spend three days with you, immersed in the practice of teaching and learning. We guide you in classes, as you will teach the children, and we give you the time and space to teach from the first day on. You will be moving, playing, and learning through experience: brain awakening games, role playing, songs, yoga sets and postures, meditations for children and group dialogue and exercises will help you uncover your own child. We discover our adult baggage and identify our blocks and biases and renew ourselves in the process.

WHO IS LIGHT LEADERS TEACHER TRAINING FOR?

Light Leaders Teacher Training is for current and future teachers who want to help children learn and develop a passion for yoga. Light Leader Teachers Training invites and inspires all people who work with children to tap the fountain of youth within themselves by becoming teachers of this ancient healing practice to children. As we remember the joy and creativity that comes with play, awaken our compassion and empathy for learning new information, and heal our own young spirit, we are re-born more vital and effective teachers. You, as teachers, guides and leaders will share the great benefits of this healing practice and live in the light of serving the future in today.

Travel light, spread light, be the light. Yogi Bhajan

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

THE COURAGE TO CHANT


MANTRAS
THE COURAGE TO CHANT
I started at a Charter School which is like a public school in that no sect or religious beliefs can be inferred. However, the school is a progressive school and open to free thought, other cultures, other ways of life, other belief systems. The fact that the principal asked for yoga spoke for itself.
THE ADI MANTRA
It means the First Mantra. The mantra that opens every Kundalini class. I call on the Great Divine Wisdom, the Divine Teacher.
I have never taught a yoga class, from kindergartners to adults, where I did not use the Adi Mantra. I call on the Highest Wisdom Inside Myself; I call upon the Highest Teacher Within Me. I bow to my Highest Voice and Self. These are ways to get the message across without going into the issue of God. The children understand the voice in their body that tells them the right thing to do. They immediately nod their heads if asked about the Voice. Whether they call it their Conscience, their Angel vs Devil, their Heart or their Mind, they hear it and know what you are talking about.
In the community center, the ballet troupe are 95% Mexican American and Catholic. In the St. James afterschool program, they are Christian, but open to yoga. The Adi Mantra is for all religions and all people and it can be framed and described as such.

Monday, August 10, 2009

Yoga Resumes with Blaire at Golden Bridge

CHILDRENS YOGA 7+ resumes with MISS BLAIRE
Beginning in May 2010
Sundays, 9:30 - 11:30am
Golden Bridge, in Hollywood
www.goldenbridgeyoga.com

YOUNG PEOPLE'S WORKSHOP

THE YOUNG PEOPLE’S WORKSHOP is a 2 hour sanctuary for children 7-13, geared toward empowering children and youth with several options (primarily yogic tools) for handling the stress and challenges of daily life. The results are: Improved self esteem (through practice of ahimsa and “esteemable” acts), Courage to stand up for ourselves and to admit our faults (versus placing blame, covering, or “acting out”) A renewed connection and acceptance of our Selves that we lose every now and then by trying to please the world. We cover some core issues in The Workshop: first we create a safe space for sharing through ice-breaker and brain games. Half way through we are ready for yoga class, which includes a meditation and deep relaxation their bigger-than-life feelings, the 24/7 schedule, their work load…then we role play issues on the schoolyard, practicing how to stand up to “oppressors” – as all this stress starts for them at 5! Toward the end, we energize ourselves and review our new tools, taking home the meditation and some handouts with my contact information to stay in touch and follow up with any future issues that present themselves. NEXT WORKSHOP TBA

Class Schedule

City Ballet of Los Angeles Private (6+) Red Shield Community Center of L.A. 11th and Union Saturdays 9:00 FOR STUDENTS OF CBLA and their parents.

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