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7 Reasons iPods are Awesome for Kids Yoga Teachers and their Music

7 Reasons iPods are Awesome for Kids Yoga Teachers and their Music

In Kids Yoga Teacher Training I recommend teachers get a portable music player like an iPod or MP3.  Usually more than 50% already use them and just nod knowingly in agreement during this part of the training.

Others half heartedly agree because they have the technology but have not plugged it in yet.

And a small but significant percentage get a terrified look on their face and just shake their head “no.” They are either afraid to take the leap into technology or just plain don’t like it.

use playlists for your kids yoga music
Use playlists for your kids yoga music.

Of course music is still available in CD format, and you can burn some pretty useful mixed CD’s.  But sooner or later you’ll have to make the switch since many major record companies have announced they are not producing CD’s anymore.

Here are some reasons to go for it now which include how you can make the most of your player if you already have one:

  1. Save Time:  You’ll save time fiddling with CD’s and changing songs during your kids yoga classes. You won’t have as many gaps in your class, gaps that drive some kids to distraction.
  2. Save Money:  A whole album of Music is usually at least $10 less as a download than to buy in CD format.  On top of that there are no shipping fees.
  3. Get Only the Songs You Want:  you can just download one song if you don’t want to buy the whole album.  Again more savings.
  4. Playlists:  You can create a playlist especially for your class and have all your songs in order and ready to go.  I also have playlists like “Childrens faves,” “Relaxation Music,” and “Childrens New” for new downloads I want to try out with my classes.  Playlists make finding a song even easier. Especially in times like this.
  5. Create Space:  a few years ago I made the leap and imported all my CD’s into iTunes then gave the CD’s away (well I kept maybe 5 out of the hundreds).  I have never missed them, in fact I end up listening to my old music more because of the “shuffle” function or just searching an artist or album I haven’t heard in a while.  What used to take a whole shelf in my living room, now fits in my pocket!  I love the space it has created.
  6. Relate to Kids:  Kids are growing up in the technology age.  They don’t read manuals, they get a new piece of technology and start using it.  It’s not a big decision, it’s entertainment.  Like spending money on going out to dinner. Technology is always a great ice breaker with older kids, tweens, and teens.
  7. It’s Easier than you Think: Once you get used to the dashboard of your player, using digital music is about as easy as writing an e-mail.  I feel like a teenager again when it comes to music, I often get a new album every month.

Most teachers are on the cusp of the digital world.  We have one foot in the old world of records, eight tracks, cassettes, and/or CD’s and we may be dipping a toe in the new world of technology.

But technology is all kids have ever known.  If you’re wondering how something works, ask the kids you teach!  Or do what they do – Google the answer. All the answers are there.

So there’s no need to be a technology dinosaur! Get with the times, you’ll be glad you did.

Please leave a comment to tell us how important your iPod or MP3 player is to your kids yoga classes. Are you glad you have one or are you just fine without?

Do you have other reasons or tips that may convince someone who’s sitting on the fence about buying an iPod?

Finally, check out my favourite songs and albums on my Recommended Resources page.

Upcoming Events

Learn some great moves to songs for warm-ups and meditations in the Young Yoga Masters Kids Yoga Teacher Training. Upcoming dates here. Next training June 2 – 3. Save with early registration.

Filed Under: Classroom Management, Kids Yoga, Teacher Training Tagged With: Easy tips, kids yoga music, songs, technology, yoga songs

Hello Song for Young Kids Yoga

Attention: Update to Kids Yoga Teacher Training Available for All

In the Kids Yoga Teacher Training at Young Yoga Masters I recommend establishing structure in kids yoga classes.  The classes will be different each time, but there will be parts of the class that remain the same.  The predictability of a routine can help kids feel more secure when they are learning.

One great place for structure is at the beginning of the class.  It helps children get ready for yoga.  In fourteen years of teaching kids yoga I’ve used only three different opening routines.  I did one routine for six years, the other for seven years and now this latest one I’ve been using since September 2011.

I’ll give you this new routine below.

A Yoga Song to Tell Kids Exactly What You Want to See

I started writing it at the end of the school year, last June 2011.  It’s especially for the younger kids, inspired because the daycare teachers start their classes with a “Make a Circle” type of song.

It got me thinking that the circle songs are really effective, why not have a yoga song that describes the actions I want to see?  I started playing with different words and timing and eventually came up with this song.

This was recorded in a live class with about 20 children ages 2 – 6 years old.  You’ll hear how excited the kids are when they sing the last “Hello.”  I don’t sing this part – I let them give a rousing response. They like it a lot.

Now after six months testing this song with my kids’ classes I’m ready to give it the stamp of approval. I’ll be updating my Kids Yoga Teacher Training to include it.  I find it works best with children up to seven or eight years old.

Here are the Yoga Moves for the song:

Hello my friends hello,
(wave one hand then the other)

It’s yoga time you know,
(wave one hand then the other)

So cross your legs,
(motion your hands crossing above your legs crossing – if there are any children without their legs crossed I pause the song here and help each child get into Easy Pose – Sukh Asana)

Put your hands in place,
(bring hands together at the heart – Prayer Mudra)

and bend your head down low,
(bring your forehead to the floor and come back up – Pranam)

That’s how we say….Hello
(let the children finish the song with a big hello)

Yoga Benefits for Kids

Here are some of the benefits from this song according to Yoga:

Sukhasana – Easy Pose: a calming pose, strengthens the back and stretches the hips, knees, and ankles.

Prayer Mudra: Pressing the right and left hands together is said to help balance the left and right hemisphere’s of the brain.

Pranam – Bowing: bringing your forehead to the floor lowers your head below your heart.  Your heart, the center of compassion and love, is elevated. The head, the center of calculations, memories, and planning, is given a secondary position.  Pranam is an act of lowering the head to the heart.

Share your Routine In the Comments

You’re invited to try this song out and/or share the ways you use to begin a yoga class for children in the comments.

Do you like to keep it the same or mix it up every week?

For more details on the Kids Yoga Teacher Training – visit here.

Filed Under: Kids Yoga, Yoga Songs Tagged With: kids yoga teacher training, yoga songs

The More We Get Together – a Yoga Song

After the Kids Yoga Teacher Training last weekend a couple of teachers were very honest about feeling stuck in their business development.  They felt like they knew what they were supposed to do, but they just couldn’t seem to go ahead and do it.

I’d like to dedicate this post to all those who have a dream but don’t know how to get started making it a reality.

Life needs purpose.  No Matter what has happened in the past, it has brought you to today.  There are no mistakes.  Live today from the inside out.  Let your creativity bubble up from inside.  Follow your heart’s passion and it will lead you to your destination.

Use your passion to get un-stuck!

Keep your mind on a short leash.  Don’t let your mind distract you from going where you want to go. Don’t let the puppy set the course for your walk!

The mind is like a puppy dog. Keep it on a short leash.

Then when you go to bed at night you will feel the exhaustion of a life well lived.  When you lay in bed at night, drift into sleep imagining what you want tomorrow to be, not what you are afraid it will be.

Spend your time with people who uplift and inspire you. When you are around like minded individuals creativity and inspiration abound.  Like this song that spontaneously grew during the practice classes at the training.  Everyone thought it was a great song to end a kids class with.  Even though it’s a traditional kids song, there is truth there.

Here are the lyrics to the traditional version and the Yoga version:

The more we get together, together, together,
The more we get together the happier we’ll be.
Cause your friends are my friends and my friends are your friends
The more we get together the happier we’ll be.

The more we do our yoga, our yoga, our yoga
The more we do our yoga the happier we’ll be.
Cause your pose is my pose and my pose is your pose
The more we do our yoga the happier we’ll be.

Cause your breath is my breath and my breath is your breath
The more we do our yoga the happier we’ll be.

Cause your light is my light and my light is your light
The more we do our yoga the happier we’ll be.

Got any suggestions for new verses for this song?

Cause your ______ is my _______ and my ______ is your ______.

What do you do when you feel stuck?

Filed Under: Inspiration, Kids Yoga, Yoga Songs Tagged With: stuck, teamwork, the more we do our yoga, yoga songs

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