CALMING KIDS TRAINING PROGRAM

Continuing Educational Credits available:

University level, Local School District & Yoga Alliance.

CALMING KIDS (CK): Creating a Non-Violent World is an intelligent, fun, relaxing, and enlightening training for educational professionals, counselors, health care providers, yoga teachers, or interested parents.  Participants learn how to implement a non-denominational yoga program to increase concentration, communication, relaxation, and fitness, and to decrease violence and bullying for pre-school through high school level students.  The National Center on Education Statistics reported that 29% of schools considered bullying to be the most prevalent disciplinary problem.  Early intervention holds the most promise for reducing violence.

The CK training program presents a curriculum that inspires a positive, peaceful, physically strong, and self-confident attitude with a system of relaxed communication.  The CK tools ultimately lead to empowering children to manage their own feelings for self-preservation, in order to make them feel safe within themselves and their surroundings and to give them a greater capacity to succeed in school and in life.  The program’s emphasis is non-harming to oneself and toward others, learning to respect personal space, with a high level of concentration practices that enhance academics and cultivate non-violent behavior.

The CK program presents a concrete system that utilizes simple yoga concepts such as proper breathing, importance of alignment, concentration exercises, relaxation training, conflict resolution strategies, non-violent communication styles, yoga postures, and dances.  Participants will also find calming techniques useful for themselves, enabling them to become an effective model for students.  The workshop provides a step-by-step curriculum that includes handouts and booklets explaining how to teach these practices to school-aged students.

A four-year research study with Boulder, CO students proved the efficacy of this program (see Research page).

The CK workshops can be taken as a 1-Day Intensive, a 1 ½-Day Training, or an all inclusive 2 ½-Day Certification Program.

½-Day Training

This 4-hour class introduces yoga poses, songs and games for Preschool through 2^nd grade. Emphasis is placed on how to use yoga poses, breathing practices, and concentration techniques to shift the energetic state of the students or class involved.  A non-violent communication model is introduced for the younger students.

Your investment: $75.00 Register Now

1-Day Intensive

This 1-Day, 8-hour workshop introduces you to the basic structure of the CK program. Participants learn how to teach the yoga concepts, integrate props, select the hand-outs, assign homework, instruct simple yoga poses, and use songs or dances for 3rd-5th grade. This training instructs how to facilitate conflict resolution strategies for elementary aged students.

Your investment: $175.00 Register Now

2 ½-Day Certification

The full Certification Program is comprised of everything within the 1-Day Intensive and the ½-Day Training, combined with an educational and interactive curriculum for Middle and High School level students. The basic structure of the CK program is adapted to fit the needs and concerns of this older population. More emphasis is placed on understanding and expressing the emotional body and in balancing the adolescent. The non-violent communication model is further explored. Basic Ayurvedic (the science of longevity) yoga techniques are introduced in order to understand how to work with students of all ages.

Your investment: $450.00 (payment plan available) Register Now

In order to be CK Certified you must complete:

• 1. The 2 ½ day CALMING KIDS Workshops
  2. 6 hours of teaching students post-training
  3. A log book or paper describing your teaching and interactions

You will receive:

• 1. All updated handouts and continuing lesson plans
  2. Annual membership to AHIMSA: Institute of Peace