A unique opportunity to bring more calm and peace into your family life through yoga and mindfulness.

Simone Grant is a certified yoga teacher for both adults and children and is based in Whanganui. She offers 20-60 minute yoga and mindfulness classes that help children to cultivate more inner-calm and peace, express and integrate feelings and regulate their nervous system.

Classes are themed and can be designed around specific goals (for private requests such as school or group values, ie; kindness, no-stress, nature/spring, super hero power, world around us/cultures).

The chosen theme will be thread through fun movement, mindfulness, breathing and social-emotional techniques that the children can use to cope with the up’s and down’s of every day life – making shapes is only one aspect of each class!

Some of the benefits of children practicing regular yoga and mindfulness includes:

• Optimising health, well-being and happiness
• Stimulating new brain cell development
• Increasing creativity and ability to learn – brains in pain can’t learn
• Cultivating self-regulation and acceptance of emotions
• Reducing stress and anxiety
• Increasing attention span and improve memory
• Enhancing self-awareness and mindfulness
• Building a strong, open and flexible body

Contact Simone to find about kids classes starting back soon, or to chat about how to integrate this opportunity into your school or community group.

TESTIMONALS

Simone has been sharing her love of yoga and mindfulness with pre-school and school aged children across Whanganui over the last few years in both a schooling environment and at her city studio.  Read some of the reviews below:

“Thank you so much Simone for our wonderful yoga and mindfulness sessions this year – the children always looked forward to you coming. It was amazing to watch the children transform from busy to peaceful, calm five year olds. The different themes and messages you shared throughout, fitted perfectly with our school values and virtues programme.
– Dinny Harrison, New Entrant/Year 0 Teacher, St Johns Hill School

“Thank you so much for sharing your light, love and passion for yoga with nga tamariki Simone. Your kind, gentle and fun loving personality makes you the perfect person to brighten up our day.”
– Fiona Penn, Head Teacher, Whanganui Montessori Pre-School

“Simone is wonderful with our children when she shares yoga. So peaceful and calm and our kindy children are captivated by the wonderfully imaginative story lines and themes built into the movement. Highly recommend Simone as an instructor for children.”
– Shelley Kyle, Teacher, St Johns Hill Kindergarten

“My granddaughter Poppy (almost 5) and I loved attending Little & Big at your studio. Poppy looked forward to it every week and was so sad it had to end, she has some wonderful yoga tools to take with her as she begins school. I highly recommend it, much thanks Simone.”
– Kim Gooding, Poppy’s Nana

“Talulah (aged 2.5) was a little shy to begin with but after four weeks she has absolutely blossomed and what Simone has taught us is seriously helping deal with emotions. She can’t stop talking about ‘oga’ and showing Dad all the poses and breathing exercises – ‘Bumble Bee’ breath is a favourite and we use it together to settle and relax before bedtime.”
– Carly Mcalorum, Talulah’s Mum

Join our Facebook group to view photos and examples of kids yoga and mindfulness in and out of schools over the last few years!