“In the spring of 2009, Eastway Elementary School counselor Ingrid Saddler-Walker decided to go to the gym and take a yoga class. During the class Saddler-Walker had an idea: Why not use yoga to help children calm down?”
One of our first RCY 200hr TT graduates from North Carolina is bringing her vision of bringing yoga to youths to life this summer with Whytha Balance Yoga Camp.
“In the spring of 2009, Eastway Elementary School counselor Ingrid Saddler-Walker decided to go to the gym and take a yoga class. During the class Saddler-Walker had an idea: Why not use yoga to help children calm down?
Three years later, Saddler-Walker is starting Wytha Balance Yoga Camp to help children learn how to relax, handle behavior problems, such as ADHD, and respond to stressful situations in a nonviolent way.
Saddler-Walker, a single mother of two boys, says her work as a counselor exposed her to many children who struggled with ADHD, and she wanted to find a better way to help them. After her initial yoga class, Saddler-Walker approached the instructor about children’s yoga.
“I asked if they had any children’s yoga classes, and she said no,” Saddler-Walker says. “So I went home, got on the Internet and found a class in Virginia.”
Saddler-Walker, a Durham resident, drove four hours to Virginia once a month for six months to become certified in Radiant Child Yoga, a yoga program tailored specifically to children. After becoming certified, Saddler-Walker began teaching yoga to children at after-school programs, where she saw how much the children enjoyed it.”
Please see below for more details regarding the Radiant Child Family Yoga 200 hour Teacher Training Program.
Free Children’s Yoga Lesson Plan!
Please clickHEREto download your next free children’s yoga lesson plan. This plan comes coutesy of Tracey M. from the Millis, MA, who took the Radiant Child basics 1-3 with Shakta Khalsa. Enjoy!
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