Yoga & Zen Classes for Kids

Itsy Bitsy Yoga – for Babies: 3 weeks to crawling

Baby Itsy Bitsy Yoga® is for infants, ages 3 weeks to 9 months (or pre-crawling) and their parent. The gentle yoga practiced in this class allows parents and their babies to deepen the bond they began at birth. It’s a calming and nurturing yoga practice that makes babies happier and more comfortable in their bodies. The poses are specifically designed to comfort and support optimal development of a baby’s body and movement abilities. No previous yoga experience necessary. For more information, visit www.itsybitsyyoga.com.

Tots Itsy Bitsy Yoga: Tots - crawling to 24 months

Itsy Bitsy Yoga for Tots is a supportive, fun-loving, and active yoga class. As tot’s mobility increases, classes offer tot-centric poses that encourage and support their physical explorations. Tots become more confident in their moving bodies as they practice yoga both in and out of class. During a Tots Itsy Bitsy Yoga class crawlers and walkers playfully practice yoga postures while they are standing, sitting up, walking, and jumping. Parents also get to do a little yoga, but no yoga experience is required.

Tykes Itsy Bitsy Yoga – 21 months to 4 years

Tykes Itsy Bitsy Yoga® is for toddlers, 21 months to 4 years old, and their parent/caregiver. The class offers developmentally-centered yoga poses, songs, and games that encourage parents/caregivers and their children to deepen the bond they began at birth. This 45-minute class is personalized to meet the interests of the children as they learn yoga through social interactions, repetition, and play. For more information visit www.itsybitsyyoga.com

Kiddie Yoga – 10 weeks & 8 weeks

Ages: 4-7, and 7-11

Yoga comes out of the head and into the heart by coming into life in this class for kids bringing in creative movement designed specifically to get kids excited to explore Yoga. We stretch, play, relax, laugh, use imagination and have fun. This class is engaging for the kids getting them involved in speaking to the teacher, moving the body, doing partner work with new buddies in class, and maybe showing mom or daddy after class some cool new moves. It is a playful class as well as relaxing for your child by using imaginative relaxation techniques towards the end to help calm down and restore.

Teen Yoga – 8 weeks

A dynamic class for teens ages 12-16 years. Working with the breath and a variety of postures in order to keep a happy and motivated mind is the goal of this class. We will be teaming up with partners, listening to great music, creating dialogue and new questions about poses and postures in this class. We will work on the basic hatha series, which is a helpful and invigorating series for all body types! This 8 week session allows your teen to get the chance to make new friends, create community, and have some fun.

Family Yoga – 8 weeks

This new yoga class focuses on bringing family closer together with a powerful and supportive practice. Watch your family advance into their practice while having fun with all the different postures at all different levels. Family yoga incorporates supporting postures and partnering (for child, parent, and siblings). This class is a great way for parents to bond with their kids.

WeeHands Baby Sign Language Classes

Long before your baby can speak, she has the ability to understand speech & wants to communicate with you. Most babies are able to sign back to you by the time they are 8-12 months of age.

Since 2001, certified WeeHands Instructors have taught thousands of families & caregivers to sign with their children. WeeHands teaches you & your family American Sign Language signs, songs & language development strategies to use with your little one!

Zen Babies 8-12 months & 12-18 months Programs

At Zen Beginnings, we want to help you maneuver your way through early parenthood and learn what you can do to optimize your child’s development at each age and stage. Our Zen Babies programs will focus on a different area of learning and development each week, such as: Social and Emotional, Fine Motor Skills, Gross Motor Skills, as well as Cognitive and Language Development.

During each class, you will take part in various activities, each with a specific learning goal, that you can then go home and practice with your little one, understanding why it is important for them. A few activities include: ‘Peek-A-Boo & Puppets’; ‘Stacking Cups and Blocks & Parachute Games’; ‘Kick Back Ball & Large Exercise Ball’; ‘Mirror Face Games & Baby Mirror Dance’; ‘High and Low Swinging & I Can Move It’; and ‘In and Out Maze & Texture Crawl’.

Each session will also include Song and Circle Time and there will also be story and book time.

Zen Tots 18months – 3yrs

Now that your little one has entered a very active phase, we will focus on movement & songs to engage and energize our zen-tots! Activities like jumping, pointing, climbing, singing and dancing will be focal, as well as language development, and story time to keep them learning and laughing at the same time.

Our focus continues to be teaching your little one age appropriate activities that will help them with fine and gross motor skills, language development, imagination through different themes each week, such as: body parts, zoo animals and food to name a few.

Zen Kids 3-5yr olds

At Zen Beginnings we want to stimulate and intrigue your little one’s mind and imagination, so each week they will engage in various activities that are both fun, as well as educational.

With a different theme each week, to help promote language development, along with various activities, your little one will get a chance to explore their creative side, as well as participate in games and activities that will allow them to work on their fine as well as gross motor skills.

Each session will also include song and circle time, which will include positive socialization and music to help them learn various ways of expressing themselves.