Professional Development for K-8th Grade Teachers

Yoga Ed., Tools for Teachers is a nationally recognized, cost effective program designed to improve and enhance student behavior, health and academic achievement. Tools for Teachers offers simple, yoga-based exercises and activities that enhance mind-body health, learning, responsible behavior and academic achievement. By giving students fun ways to move, stretch, unwind and center themselves, Tools for Teachers supports fitness and learning readiness.

In-service Trainings

In the following participatory workshops, teachers learn how to easily incorporate the four types of Yoga Tools into their daily schedule with simple five to fifteen minute exercises using breath, postures, games and visualization.

• 2-Hour In-School Introduction, $300
  Teachers learn how to usse yoga-based activities to support and center themselves as well as create calm, focus, and optimal learning readiness in their classroom.
  
• Three 2-hour Sessions, $800
  This option includes the 2-hour School Introduction (above) as well as two additional trainings. Follow up sessions expand on material that was introduced in the initial training, offers new yoga tools and helps reinforce the Tools for Teachers approach.
• 1/2 Day In-School (4 hours), $500
  Instruction and practice in utilizing the four types of Yoga Tools - breath, postures, games and visualization, to create a brain-compatible, healthy classroom environment that boosts achievement by enhancing transitions, testing and class management.
  
• Full Day In-School, $700
  This fun, healthful and comprehensive workshop trains teachers in the techniques from all four chapters of the Yoga Tools Manual. Participants gain understanding and confidence in integrating Yoga Tools into their daily classroom routine for mind-body wellness, responsible behavior and academic achievement.
  
• Student Assembly or Health Fair, $300
  A health based introduction to Yoga Tools for students that focuses on learning simple, fun yoga activities that they can use to de-stress, manage their feelings, focus and concentrate, energize, feel good and do their best!
  

Products and Materials

• Tools for Teachers Manual, $25 each (or $20 for 25 or more)
  Designed to support and inform the implementation of Yoga Tools in the classroom, the Tools for Teachers Manual is an illustrated reference to all of the content in the above in-services. Manual includes sample Yoga Tools sessions, a digest of research relating yoga's benefits to health and education, as well as directions for all games, poses, breathing exercises and visualizations. E-mail info@schoolhouseyoga.org to purchase materials.
  

Yoga Ed., Tools for Teachers Manual is indispensable to classroom teachers because it offers activities that not only address the physical needs of students, but also their emotional needs. A calm, focused child is much more ready for learning!"
--Stela Olivera, Nutrition Network, Los Angeles, CA