A well-regulated adult will help to create a well-regulated child. By giving parents tools to manage feelings and stress through adult yoga and mindfulness, Bloom Yoga seeks to build parental resilience and strengthen families. These practices are beneficial for all parents and caregivers – including foster and adoptive parents.

In addition, Bloom Yoga also offers benefits to professionals working to strengthen families, like managing their own stress relief and regulation, as well as learning skills or gaining tools to teach the families they serve to ultimately prevent occurrence or recurrence of child maltreatment.

Class Description for Professional & Adult Yoga: Utilize all the elements of yoga, including gentle movements, rest, mindfulness, and breathing as a tool for self study. Learn what your body does in times of stress and which techniques can help to alleviate stress in the body. This is a gentle yoga class; no experience necessary. All activities in this class are optional, as there is a focus on taking care of one’s own body.

Family & Caregiver yoga focuses on positively impacting family functioning and resilience, nurturing and attachment, social and emotional development, self-regulation, coping skills and awareness. Yoga is a natural environment to promote and teach caregivers and children ways to interact in a positive healthy way, as well as how to respond and interact during times of stress.

Bloom Yoga incorporates five main elements for family and children’s classes to promote an all-inclusive environment: connect, move, breathe, focus and rest and reflect. With these five elements of a yoga class we are able to teach skills for prevention of stress, as well as skills for response to stress.

Class Description for Caregiver & Me Yoga: Partner with your baby/toddler/child in simple animated poses, games, art, music and breathing exercises that help to strengthen coordination and build body awareness. We’ll moo in cow pose, hiss in cobra pose, and flutter our wings in butterfly while we take a yoga journey that your child will never forget! We will explore some co-poses as well! This fun class provides key bonding methods between caregiver and child, while strengthening their growing muscles.

An increasing number of professionals, parents, and caregivers are recognizing that children’s yoga, breath awareness, and mindfulness activities are beneficial for well-being and mental health. Research suggests that children who practice elements of yoga are better able to regulate emotions, manage stress and calm themselves. Studies have also shown that centered, calm and focused children learn more easily, have better social skills and, in general, are happier kids!

Class Description for Children’s Yoga: Come play games, learn songs, engage in imaginative play, social emotional learning, self study and connect with others in this fun kids yoga class! We will learn all the elements of yoga: connection, movement, breathing, focus, resting and reflection.