Community Yoga

Anyone who has taken more then just a few yoga classes knows that yoga is more than just physical exercise, it's a way of seeing and experiencing the world around us.  Yoga is a physical as well as mental exercise which helps you realize that you and the world are interconnected.  

 

We come to this world through our families.  We are nourished by them as we grow and learn.  Later, we create our own families and support the social circles that sustained our development.  We receive and we give, we interact and we grow together.  It's all yoga.

 

In a way, there are two kinds of yoga: Yoga Mat Yoga, which is your practice in class, and Living Yoga, which is the attitude, peace of mind, the balance and the excitement about life that accompany you through your day when the yoga class ends.

 

There is a new kind of yoga though, a yoga that combines the two yogas into one.  It’s a more social yoga, a yoga that we do together and that gives us tools to enrich every aspect of our family life and our social existence.  We call it Community Yoga.


Community Yoga is simply finding new ways to do yoga together.  Not by yourself and not just for yourself, but together.  Practicing together for the purpose of becoming closer, of binding and reconnecting with each other.

In a world where thriving communities are less and less common, and where people can feel isolated, it is more important than ever to focus on finding new ways of bringing us together.

 

We are all unique as individuals, but we cannot claim to be able to survive and thrive completely independently.  A close look on our lives will reveal how interdependent we are and how a strong and healthy society can contribute to the growth of every individual.


Of course, society is made of individuals, and the healthier one individual is, the healthier the whole society is.  If someone is unhappy, it affects everyone.  And if one of us is joyful, it uplifts all of us.  We affect each other constantly.

 

If we take yoga as a representation of our society, we will see that in the last fifty or sixty years, most yoga practice was based on the individual.  Practitioners have been wholly focused on themselves, whether physically, mentally or spiritually, practicing on their own yoga mats.

 

The new paradigm of yoga that we believe in is Community Yoga.  Doing yoga together, whether it is with your baby, your child, your friend, your partner or people you never met before, has incredible benefits:

 

  • It deepens our connection to others

  • It builds trust and compassion

  • It enables us to stretch further than usual

  • And balance in ways we couldn’t by ourselves

  • It teaches us to move with more awareness, realizing that our movements affect others

  • It provides constant feedback to our actions by communicating with our partner as well as by experiencing how it feels when they stretch us

  • It enhances communication skills using words, facial expressions, touch, eye gazing and breath

  • It helps us to explore safe and loving touch

  • And it’s so much more FUN !!! 


Working in partners and groups is a major part of Community Yoga, whether it is done with kids or adults.  By working with other people we learn a lot about ourselves and develop important social skills.  We learn how to touch, how to be gentle and kind, we learn acceptance and compassion, how to be respectful and trusting, and how to connect, communicate, and cooperate.  It’s a great opportunity to open the heart and overcome past conflicts as well as create new friendships.


In a Community Yoga class, we usually organize the yoga mats in a circle.  In a circle, each person is able to see everyone and to be seen by all.  The circle makes our practice communal.  While in the old yoga each person practices by herself, Community Yoga is a shared experienced that is being constantly created by all participants.  There is no first and second when we sit like that – it’s a circle.  We are all equal participants that came to be together and to support each other.

If you happen to take a Community Yoga class, you’ll feel the difference.  It is not like other yoga classes.  People do not stay on their own yoga mat, they smile and laugh and communicate throughout the class.  They don’t rush to leave for their next activity – they savor the new friendships they have created, the new community they have become part of in the last hour or two.


The secret of Community Yoga, its power to bring people together, lies in one simple and most ancient element: touch.  In a community Yoga class, we hug, support, lift, do poses together, hold hands, massage each other, mess each other’s hair, etc. 


Touch is magic!  Touch is the first and most ancient form of communication.  We need touch like we need food and water.  Babies that are deprived of touch will die as was proven by experiments done in orphanages (www.benbenjamin.com/pdfs/Issue2.pdf), and kids and adults who are not touched enough can develop many psychological and social problems.  Touch connects people and brings them closer together more than anything else.  

Look, life is just not as fun when you are all by yourself...and it’s the same in yoga!  It is always more fun to do yoga together!

So let’s create more Community Yoga around us--all together now!

Want to learn how to share yoga and mindfulness with your children at home or with your students at school?

Join one of our Rainbow Kids Yoga Teacher Trainings today! Click here to sign up!

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MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE WITH YOGA AND MINDFULNESS

Rainbow Yoga trained more than 30,000 Kids Yoga Teachers since 2007. We make yoga fun for children and young people of all age groups and for the whole family too! Our yoga consists of many poses and stretches that have different physical benefits for our health and well-being, breathing, relaxation, meditation and mindfulness exercises for our minds, and social interaction, playfulness, meaning, deep life lessons and fun for our spirit.

Thinking about the impact of all those amazing certified yoga teachers, educators, parents and therapists we have trained to teach yoga to children and yoga for teens; we are making a huge difference for the next generation bringing peace, love, kindness and resilience into their lives. Education departments, schools, health programs and individuals in many countries have adopted yoga as a form of exercise and a method to decrees stress and increase wellbeing. We are the biggest and most-loved kid’s yoga teacher training in the world and we are here tp provide you with everything you will need to teach successful, exciting, meaningful, engaging and fun yoga to children, teenagers and families.

THE BEST ONLINE YOGA TEACHER TRAINING – LEARN TOOLS TO HELP KIDS AND FAMILIES FIND CONNECTION, RELEASE STRESS, INCREASE RESILIENCE AND BRING ON A SENSE OF WELL BEING AND MENTAL BALANCE

Rainbow Kids Yoga offers the most comprehensive, practical, and engaging children yoga teacher training certification in the world! Our course will enable you to deliver children yoga classes that will connects your students to themselves, each other, and the environment. Through unique and engaging practices of mindfulness and yoga your students and community will be able to find connections, enhance well-being and thrive as grounded, integrated and well balanced individuals.

At our training, all while having fun, you will become a children yoga instructor through a lot of experiential practice, insightful theory, yoga poses and sequences, mindfulness practices and relaxation. You will learn how to build fun, engaging, and fitness-level-appropriate children yoga classes for all ages, from toddlers to teenagers. At our kid’s yoga teacher training you will find over 300 videos presenting how to make yoga poses accessible and fun! Believe it or not, yoga can be extremely boring for children and for adults too… In Rainbow Yoga, we make yoga in a fun so that children learn easily and want to do more of it. Yoga is so good for you, but for children to want to want to do yoga you will need to learn to spice it all up and this is what our kid’s yoga online teacher training is for!

This is the perfect resource for yoga teachers, parents, educators and therapists to find and discover hundreds of yoga poses, yoga games and mindfulness practices for children in a way that makes it is easy to learn and easy to enjoy.

Yoga poses for kids: Yoga encourages a positive and healthy lifestyle for the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of children as it helps in the development of strength, stamina, and endurance, high levels of positive energy, resilience, focus, self-awareness, and awareness of our environment.

Yoga for children empowers them with increased concentration, calm, peace, and contentment at a mental level leading to inner and outer peace and harmony. The Rainbow Kids Yoga Teacher Training includes a digital manual (a hard copy that can be purchased) as part of the course. This is specialized online yoga teacher training. Here we will focus on how to teach yoga to children and teens, and how to help them release stress, relax, stretch, energize – All in creative and fun ways while taking into consideration their unique needs, whether they are physical, social, mental, or emotional. 

You will learn to teach the youngest yogis and those with emotional and mental challenges techniques to assist them with impulse control and self-regulation. Our courses provide a platform and a foundation to promote the healthy development of the hearts, bodies, and minds of young individuals.

The Rainbow Kids Yoga Training is the largest and most well-regarded Kids Yoga Teacher Training in the world. Our graduates teach everywhere using our diploma including schools, kindergartens, daycare centers, early learning centers, Yoga studios, gyms, fitness centers, birthday parties, private and group classes and more.

 

AFFORDABLE LEARNING AT YOUR FINGERTIPS

Join our Yoga Revolution and become a kids’ yoga teacher today through our online yoga teacher training or in-person yoga certification courses. You will be left with a smile on your face, a wealth of knowledge and an ignited spirit to spread the love and joy of yoga.

For our online training, you can allow 24 hours to receive your access and for physical products such as the Rainbow Kids Yoga Book, you can allow 2-4 weeks to receive it by mail. The books are printed on demand before being shipped, but it is worth the wait 😊

HISTORY OF RAINBOW YOGA

Rainbow Yoga is a fun and constantly evolving family mission and lovingly born in 2007, to give people the tools to teach fun, engaging, and creative in=person and online yoga classes for kids, teens, families, partners, and communities. Rainbow Yoga is interactive and social and all about connection; we touch, hug, move, breathe and co-create together our yoga magically and playfully.

Rainbow Yoga offers a variety of unique and comprehensive teacher training certification courses all over the world offering a well-rounded, in-depth learning experience through a combination of play, practical theory, and fun.The Rainbow Yoga Teacher training is renowned for being captivating, dynamic, loving, and life changing. It is condensed with a lifetime of knowledge and hands-on experience from the Founders of Rainbow Yoga, Gopala, and Angel Yaffa. Delivered by world-class faculty around the world.