Kids Yoga and Mindfulness
Class Descriptions
Mindfulness & Yoga for Youth (Online Classes)
(Ages 12-16+)
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Tanya is offering online classes for youth to explore powerful self-care tools interactively! Let your kids practice mindfulness and yoga during COVID-19, and learn ways to deal with anxiety and face this challenging time.
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When:
Thursdays 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
See Schedule ​for dates and fees
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In this yoga class, your child will build confidence and coordination in their growing bodies, as well as cultivate mental focus, curiosity, self-inquiry, positive thought, good boundaries and clear communication within a safe and communal online environment where independent practice and social interactivity are both encouraged. Learn more.
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Classes will be recorded, so if you miss a class, you can watch it later!
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How it will work:
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Register by emailing Tanya and pay via e-transfer to tanya@theinnerspace.ca
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You will receive an email with the link to join Tanya virtually via Zoom
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Before each class' start time, click on the Zoom link to attend the virtual meeting/class and be ready to begin promptly!
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If you have any questions, feel free to contact Tanya.
Kids Yoga Adventures
(Ages 8-11)
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Kid’s Yoga Adventures is a fun and creative way to practice yoga while learning life skills. The program is especially designed as a playful adventure story or game with a different theme each class. The kids practice yoga poses within the story or game structure and are encouraged to approach various joys and challenges with curiosity, inquiry, positive thought and clear communication.
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Give your child the opportunity to develop physical awareness and control, mental focus, and tools for the safe release of tension and excess emotional energy in the body! Proper breathing is also introduced in the class to develop tools for calming the mind and regulating their energy, along with a short guided relaxation at the end of each class. This program is so fantastic that parents will wish they were kids again!
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Currently not offered? Want to join wait list?
Arts and Yoga Leadership Camp
SUMMER CAMP IS NOT TAKING PLACE IN 2022.
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(Ages 7-14)
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The Inner Space is delighted to offer the Arts and Yoga Leadership Camp again this summer!
Join Tanya Porter along with Sr. assistant Karin Schrewe and SPECIAL GUEST ARTISTS for a well-balanced week-long adventure, developing compassionate collaboration and leadership skills through drumming, drama, crafts, movement, music, mindfulness, nature walks, park play and yoga.
LEADERSHIP PROJECTS: Each camper is also invited to develop a “passion project” in something they love and will lead the campers through experiencing it. Some past projects were an original dance, story, puppet play, comedy/joke, painting, cupcake decorating, song, slime and mural. We will assist with this and provide materials.
PRESENTATION: Parents/family are invited to a celebration program presented by the campers on Friday evening. Friday is a longer day for the campers with a pizza and veggies dinner party before the presentation. Campers stay through until the presentation from 6-7pm. Families have said it’s a highlight of their summer!!
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2022 CANCELLED
When: Monday to Thursday 9am – 4pm, Friday 9am to 6pm (with pizza dinner) & family presentation 6pm to 7pm
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Where: Stouffville (Impact Dance Studios, 10 Commercial Street)
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Fee: $275 + HST (includes all arts materials, daily morning baked snack and afternoon fruit snack, Thursday ice cream bar snack, Friday pizza dinner and party snacks)
Contact/Register : tanya@theinnerspace.ca
Tanya - Yoga Teacher
Tanya is a certified yoga instructor from the The International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre, recognized by the Yoga Alliance in the USA and Canada.
She has been practising yoga for 23 years, and did a 10-year apprentice with Judith McCaffery, senior teacher in the Sivananda lineage. She has been teaching yoga privately for 16 years, and before that through the TDSB for 4 years. She is registered with the Canadian Yoga Alliance with a designation of CYA-RYT 500.
She currently teaches children and youth yoga and mindfulness in private classes, camps, the Markham-Stouffville Hospital and custom programs for schools in the YRDSB, TDSB and the Catholic School Board. She enriches her youth programs with her extensive background in drama, dance and music.
