Jasmine: I started Sing Song Yoga about 4 years ago. Leigh Ann: How did you discover Sing Song Yoga for kids and how do you incorporate it into your classroom? Jasmine Koster: I’m a kindergarten teacher at McFall Elementary in Thornapple Leigh Ann (to Jasmine): Now you are a teacher right now. So with our app you could have a transition as quick as 1 second for the young energetic users or as long as 30 seconds for those who need a bit more time. She kept having to pause our DVD for extra time to transition between the poses. And we have a unique feature inspired by a parent of a child with physical limitations. These are just some of the examples but we have 39 different possibilities and as I mentioned you can also create name and save your own yoga program. If you’re a teacher you could choose one of the brain break sequences or test prep sequence.
If you have a child who does sports there’s an athlete’s sequence. If you have a child at home who has a difficult time going to sleep – we have a bedtime sequence. Or you can choose from one of 39 preprogrammed sequences each with an end in mind. You can choose poses and create your own yoga sequence. Leigh Ann: How can viewers find out more about ?ĭeb: We have local classes, a DVD, a book about yoga in the classroom and an App. In other words, children respond really well to music which makes learning yoga or anything easier, more effective and more fun.
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Leigh Ann: So explain to people what Sing Song Yoga is.ĭeb: Sing Song Yoga is a kids’ musical yoga program in which song lyrics instruct children how to get into the poses. Educational researchers find that music, movement and fun together naturally increase the positive chemicals in the brain that help with memory, with the ability to pay attention and with new learning. So as a school teacher who used music in the classroom and as a yoga instructor this idea came to me. Leigh Ann Towne, Host of Fox 17 Morning Mix: How did you come up with Sing Song Yoga for kids?ĭeb Weiss-Gelmi, Sing Song Yoga founder: When my daughter was preschool age I was looking for a local yoga class or a DVD and found neither at that time. The dialog from the video is also transcribed below. She discusses the benefits she sees with her students as well as the overall effects on her classroom environment. So to meet Jasmine Koster, a kindergarten teacher at McFall, and find that she and her students were truly finding such rich purpose in using our kids’ yoga program in the classroom, was not only affirming for my business, but heart-warming personally as well.īelow is the interview on Fox 17, during which Jasmine talks about using our kids yoga program in her classroom and throughout her school. Though we’ve been thrilled about McFall Elementary adopting Sing Song Yoga for kids school-wide 4 years ago, I had not yet met or even connected with any of the teachers.
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