Let’s Meet Blissful Kids
Why Yoga, Mindfulness & Process Art?
Yoga is the union of the body mind and emotions, through this connection students become more in touch with themselves, their loved ones, and the planet. When we teach children how to respect and love their bodies, how to use their minds as positive tools, and how to connect with their emotions, we are teaching them the fundamentals of being a peaceful and happy person. Self-love grows self-care and respect, which in turn creates care for others and the planet.
Mindfulness involves acceptance, meaning that we pay attention to our thoughts and feelings without judging them—without believing, that there’s a “right” or “wrong” way to think or feel in a given moment. When we practice mindfulness, our thoughts tune into what we’re sensing in the present moment rather than rehashing the past or imagining the future.
In the practice of Process Art, a child is not just making something, they are enhancing their physical and emotional development, building their confidence and decision-making skills and they are adding value to their communication skills by having a space that allows for their creative expression.
We believe that if you are surrounded by children you have the vitally important role of guiding and supporting them to become the very best version of themselves that they can be.
Blog
Online Children’s Yoga Teacher Trainin...
We here at Blissful Kids Creative Yoga have created an online children’s yoga teacher training course that has been derived from our in-person training. Our program is geared towards therapists, parents, teachers, yoga instructors. This course is for anyone who has a passion for working...
Blissful Kids Parent and Child Retreat M...
Blissful Kids Parent and Child Retreat for families who would love to spend quality time together. ...
Mindfulness Activities to Help Children...
Modern life has a lot of pressures. So it’s no surprise that children can sometimes feel anxious. From struggling with homework to family troubles, kids get stressed out and it’s important to help them find healthy ways of dealing with this. The good news is...
Children’s Yoga Teacher Training – S...
Children's Yoga Teacher Training - South Africa...
Blissful Kids Holistic Living – Our St...
Our story began in 2016 over a cup of coffee with a few ideas floating around. Being in the Children’s Yoga world, it doesn’t take long to meet people with the same inspirations and ideals. It was during one of those coffee dates that we...
Therapeutic Benefits of Kids Yoga
Yoga is pretty popular these days, and for good reason. Anyone who’s tried it for a while will attest to the many benefits of living the yogi lifestyle. Traditionally however this activity was the domain of (mainly female) adults. Well not so anymore. In recent...
Blissful Kids Creative Yoga Being Featur...
Last year I had been pondering how I was going to get more of the general public aware of Creative Yoga for Children, it wasn’t much longer after that that I received a phone call. It was someone from Etv News wanting to do a...
Benefits of Yoga in Schools for Kids
Yoga is great for the mind and body. Anyone who has tried a class will know it instantly calms you down and makes you feel more centered. Well, who needs calming down more than excitable little ones? We often think of yoga as an adult-only...
Anna and her Rainbow-colored Yoga Mats &...
The book begins with Anna, she is starting out at a new school and she moves through her first few days exploring her Yoga practice on different coloured yoga mats. At first she has a few funny looks and the children whisper about her, but...
It’s a New Year, welcome to 2015! Star...
After the festivities of December, the time comes to settle down. You can almost feel the change in the air. Parent’s head back to work and the count down begins for our little ones and not so little ones to start a new grade, or...
Mindfulness and Children’s Yoga
Staying in the moment keeps us grounded and present, as much as we all love to think of the bigger picture, it is much less overwhelming to take small steps and to thoroughly complete each task as it comes up. That’s not to say you...
Be the change you wish to see 🙂
Taking timeout for yourself is always a good thing, I was watching an Urban Yoga YouTube clip on Russell Simmons approach to bringing Yoga into his business and he said something that struck a cord (and I have mentioned in a previous blog) He said...
Teaching Children To Use Yoga to Self Re...
One of the many benefits Yoga has is giving children tools to self regulate, in other words, how to calm your-self down. Children are encouraged to use breathing techniques and postures to move from an energetic state to a relaxed state within Yoga classes....
Spring Time! An inspiring time for Creat...
The smell of Jasmine as you walk through the garden, the warmth of the Sun when you go outside, the lightness in the hearts of the children when they play outside. Spring has sprung! Yay!...
Sharing the Kids Yoga message
Sharing the joys and benefits of Children’s Yoga is even more important (in my eyes). Yoga for Adults is well accepted and appreciated around Town. Kids Yoga is relatively new and for those of us who are witness to it know how much love and...
Using Creative Yoga to cope with stress...
There’s no denying we live in a hurry up, rushed, be here, go there, quick paced society. It is so easy to get caught up in it. Those moments when you stop and breathe, and have a quick realization at how you were running around...
Creative Yoga – The Concept
We are all creators, sound weird? If we look at creativity in the sense of how it is explained in the Oxford dictionary 'the use of imagination or original ideas to create something; inventiveness' you can see that being creative doesn’t only mean creating a...
Yoga for kids in Cape Town
I have been teaching children Yoga for the past 5yrs, I remember starting up and feeling quite lonely! At the time, I only knew of another 3 people teaching Yoga to children in Cape Town and 2 of them I only knew via the grape...
Contact Us
Blissful Kids offers Kids Yoga Teacher Trainings, Parent and Child - Yoga and Art Workshops and Family Retreats. Bringing Blissful vibes your way!
Let’s connect!
Sign up for our newsletter here!
Anja Maritz
+27 (0) 72 313 3499
anja@blissfulkids.co.za
Jani Shearer
+27 (0) 82 363 1733
jani@blissfulkids.co.za