Do you have children who would greatly benefit from yoga but you don’t wish to take time away from their academic education?
‘Go To Yoga’ offers a variety of National Curriculum based Educational Yoga Classes uniquely designed for Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), Key stage 1 (KS1) and Key Stage 2 (KS2), working alongside your school to determine your specific requirements.
I currently have some availability for in-person school visits. Alternatively my sessions are accessible online (live or pre-recorded) with all classes designed, planned and led by me, Gemma Unsworth. I have many years experience teaching the various stages of Primary Education, hold a Masters Degree in Psychology and am also an experienced Yoga Teacher.
Every school community and class is different and I therefore offer various types of yoga sessions depending upon your requirements. Please see below for available educational yoga session options.
COLLABORATIVE STORYTELLING SESSIONS
Within these sessions children love getting the opportunity to creatively collaborate to devise their own unique characters, settings and plots to produce their own stories which we will then put to yoga.
TOPIC BASED SESSIONS
Tell me the topic that you are currently studying and I will turn it into a yoga session… Or series thereof!
I will work alongside schools to align my yoga sessions with your current topic of study, creating really bespoke sessions to cement and compliment the learning taking place in the classroom.
BOOK BASED SESSIONS
Is there a book/set of books that you are currently studying in class? Would you like to delve into this further and get the children to immerse themselves in the story by putting it to yoga?
Additionally, I can also offer purely yoga sessions, focusing on the more physical/mindful aspects of yoga if this is your requirement.
If you would like to arrange a one off visit, weekly or termly visits please get in touch either using the contact form on this website or via email gotoyoga@hotmail.com or phone 07982634973.
School Testimonials
“Last week we were so lucky to have the lovely Gemma lead us in a Yoga session. This was set up as part of a class session with some of our families participating as part of their home learning during the Coronavirus pandemic. Prior to the session, Gemma and I discussed how we are currently learning about night and day with the children. Gemma then designed a set of yoga sessions for the children to participate in and they had great fun doing this. We are so looking forward to our next session at the end of this week, what a great way to conclude Children’s Mental Health week. Thank you Gemma for all the time and effort that you put into the session, I will be encouraging the children to follow your phonic sessions that can be found online.”
A.Lyons
SENCo & Nursery Teacher
Below are testimonials from school children in a Year 5 class following the ‘Kids Can Yoga – Children’s Mental Health’ session:
M: I loved the yoga, it was really calming.
L: The yoga made me feel so relaxed.
A: I found lots of techniques to help get my worries away and I will keep doing them.
G: I like the way it linked our hobbies to our exercises so we will remember how to do them more.
E: It was nice to do it together as a class, even though some of us were at home.
“It was a great way for the children to understand how they could take care of their own mental health but also the mental health of the people around them. You discussed it without worrying or scaring them and gave them really useful exercises that they can remember to do on their own if they choose to. Many would like to do this a lot more so thank you on behalf of my class and me.” A.C – Year 5 class teacher
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