JUMBO YOGA FOR YOUTH CLASS AT GOLDEN BRIDGE

What other yoga class for kids is over 90 minutes? Don't we all just assume kids won't last in a room that long with such a discipline? That is why kundalini yoga is ideal for children - it's all about moving!

The Sunday morning JUMBO yoga class at Golden Bridge (ages 6+) is the only class with enough time to really go deeper with students. Hence, this class is well known for its transformative effect on young people, sparking a desire in them to take up their own yoga practice at home. The children gather in a tribal circle and share on specific topics, then they play stimulating, ice-breaker games, developing especially the right hemisphere of the brain, then participate in a solid one hour yoga set ending with meditation and deep relaxation and a closing ceremony.
Blaire Baron Larsen teaches children ages 6+ Kundalini yoga all over Los Angeles. She is Yoga Director at both the City Ballet of L.A.(School) and L.A. Shakespeare Youth Festival.

THE MARATHON CLASS AT GOLDEN BRIDGE

Teaching the 9:30 Sunday class to children ages 6 - 14 at Golden Bridge for 5 years (and now again) was the best teaching experience for me in regards to how to keep children engaged for TWO HOURS. And these are children who don't necessarily want to be there. They are usually in this class because their parents are taking Gurmukh's class downstairs and they had no where to put them, or they want their children to fall in love with yoga the way they have. It is my job to give them an enjoyable experience that makes them want to come back and find their own relationship to yoga, their own journey with it. It always starts with ice-breaker games, which trick their brains. Suddenly they are having fun and opening up as a group. Even those who were determined not to participate or share, open up and reveal what is on their mind. After we have created a safe and comfortable dynamic as a group, then we start our yoga. And before we know it, the two hours is over and they are receiving their Yoga Stones for participating. I wish I had their childhood.