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Just For Kids Yoga

One of the many benefits of kid's yoga include enhancing concentration; your child learns how to sit still in one place and focus; this helps boost their attention span which can help improve grades.

Just For Kids Yoga

Yoga allows a child to just be a child while getting back to basics of taking time to pause and connect with the breath.  Yoga also serves to stimulate the body and mind while engaging in fun yoga a posture…Who doesn’t like barking like a dog in Downward Dog pose??!!

A few of the many benefits of yoga include enhancing concentration; your child learns how to sit still in one place and focus; this helps boost their attention span which can help improve grades.  Yoga also increases flexibility, balance and tones muscles. This will lead to greater strength. Once your child is able to display greater flexibility and better performance in school it will boost their confidence and create a wonderful sense of self.

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Children are surrounded by so much outward stimulation at a very young age, but yoga is a great tool which allows the child to just be, visualize a day in the park, breathing, balancing, connecting with nature and just having fun.

I will be teaching Just for Kids Yoga for children ages 8-11 at Natural Instincts, 11113 S. Western Ave., Chicago, IL starting November 6th, the class will be on Tuesdays at 4:30pm. Pre-registration is required, phone 773-233-8600 to register.

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If you're interested in an Adult yoga class, please feel free to join me Wednesdays at 6:00pm* and Thursdays at 9:30am* at Jacobs Well in Evergreen Park. *Please arrive 15 minutes early to register.

Joan Zigulich is a Certified Hatha, Children and Family Yoga Instructor.  My mission is to introduce the wonderful benefits of yoga allowing the student to practice both on and off the mat. Please feel free to contact me if you would like to discuss how to incorporate the practice of yoga into your life, yogapathway@yahoo.com   or "LIKE" Yoga Pathway on Facebook www.facebook.com/YogaPathway

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