This entry comes from Jessica McClintic, one of the founders of Imagination Yoga. Her story highlights some of the wonderful work Imagination Yoga is doing around kindness and the growth of positive community groups one child at a time. She reminds us that it is not just the physical practice that helps us grow our … Continue reading »
This story comes from Jamie Hopkins, one of the creators and founders of Imagination Yoga. Jamie has been teaching children Imagination Yoga long before it even had a name. Jamie has inspired so many children, families and people to do their best each day in their yoga and in their day-to-day interactions it is no wonder … Continue reading »
This blog post comes from Elissa Cirignotta, one of our Imagination Yoga teachers. Elissa has been teaching Imagination Yoga since 2011. This year Elissa, along with the Imagination Yoga team, developed our new curriculum Imagination Yoga with the Special Child. Elissa has had the pleasure of teaching this class to a group of children she works with and … Continue reading »
This picture was given to one of our Imagination Yoga teachers by a little girl last spring named Celine. She brought the paper up to the teacher and said “It is teacher appreciation day and since you teach me yoga I made you a card today in my class.” What a lovely gift and an … Continue reading »
This story came to us from one of our wonderful Imagination Yoga teachers, Laurie Davies. Laurie earned her Imagination Yoga certification in 2012 and since that time has been teaching yoga to kids in and around the Merced, Ca area. My story is about my 6 year old son, Ikey. Ikey has anxiety problems and … Continue reading »
Imagination Yoga has the honor of being presenters at the Cannon Beach Yoga festival this year! The festival is the weekend of March 1st – 3rd all around Cannon Beach, Oregon. The festival is open to the public with festival passes available as well as individual add on workshops such as ours. Our class will … Continue reading »
Imagination Yoga classes always end the same; we sit on our mats criss-cross and press our hands together at their hearts. All together we move our hands to our hearts and say ‘kind hearts’, to our lips and say ‘kind words’ and finally to our foreheads and say ‘kind thoughts’, repeating this 3 times in … Continue reading »
This story came to us from one of our very talented Imagination Yoga teachers, Kailee Klobes. Kailee earned her Imagination Yoga certification in 2009 and since that time has been teaching yoga to kids in and around the Scappoose Oregon area. Kailee recently had a wonderful moment come from her use of concentration stones in one … Continue reading »
At the beginning of every Imagination Yoga story we take three big yoga breathes to prepare our bodies and our minds for yoga class. This had always gone well with this group and seemed to be a calming practice for all of the kids in the class, so one day I introduced a new aspect to … Continue reading »
Imagine for a moment that you are no longer sitting in front of your computer; imagine no walls and no ceiling around you, only blue sky and sunshine. Look down; the chair you are sitting on has somehow turned into a raft and the solid ground has turned to water. Imagine Yoga on the river! … Continue reading »
