Yoga-Inspired Creative Movement for Young Children
Programs in San Francisco, East Bay, Marin & South Bay, CA

Yogadoodles™ is a children's curriculum and teacher training program for yoga-inspired creative movement with children between the ages of 2 and 5 years. Yogadoodles™ was created by Bay Area sisters Jacqueline and Teddy Kellam, who are parents of young children with a combined 8+ years of children's yoga teaching experience.

Yogadoodles™ classes are magical experiences. Children sing “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” while balancing in boat pose. They stick their feet together with imaginary honey, and flutter their butterfly knees on an adventure in Golden Gate Park. They stomp like dinosaurs, and then pause to rest in their peaceful nests. They relax on floating clouds with eye pillows on their faces or tummies. Then they fold their hands together and sing a song about the sunshine in their hearts.

The joy of a yoga-inspired practice for young children is in the playful “dream world” created around the poses. By integrating breathing, imaginative sounds, right-left brain work, heart-opening music and songs, storytelling, props, and creative movement , the practice serves children on a deeper level than just the physical.

We believe that by creating a safe, structured atmosphere of imaginative play combined with age-appropriate relaxation , teachers can elevate the experience to a therapeutic level for young children.

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Yogadoodles Teacher Training
Namaste. Yoga in Rockridge, 5416 College Avenue, Oakland
Saturday, June 17, 1-5PM
$85

Spend a playful afternoon with Yogadoodles sisters Jacqueline and Teddy Kellam as you learn to inspire young children to breathe deeply and move. Acquire an entire toolbox of techniques for calming the exuberant energy of little yogis in a loving way.

The training is for yoga instructors, preschool teachers, parents and yoga enthusiasts who love children.  You should have enough yoga experience under your belt to know simple, basic poses: tree, boat, dog, bow, cat-cow, etc. Children's yoga includes huge variety of activities, and poses are just one part of the fun.

Yoga Journal on-line, April 2005 - read article