YogaMusic (workshop)

YogaMusic for teachers, parents and caregivers is a unique and innovative program created especially for people who work with children of all ages and in different environments and situations. YogaMusic is a two hour workshop that can be taught in any school environment as well as for families, daycares, and even with caregivers for elders. YogaMusic is an innovative approach to traditional education where teachers and students learn together, share ideas, connect creativity and imagination. Is a learning process for both sides.

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During the YogaMusic workshop, teachers and caregivers will learn a wide variety of yoga poses combine with breathing techniques, meditation tools, visualization activities music games, rhythms, building of their own instruments, singing and music in a way that they can apply it in the classroom time.

YogaMusic is a program so easy to use that can be done on chairs, small rooms, open spaces.

YogaMusic does not required special tools or mats or previous experience either in yoga or in music from the teachers or from the students.

The activities are designed in a way that teachers can use it at any time and don’t have to follow a specific sequence to achieve a great response from the students. The program can be implemented in special education classes and for children with special needs.

YogaMusic is a result of years of experience teaching music and yoga. The wonderful results that manifest in thousands of students of all ages and a response for inquisitive teachers that are asking for a new method to help students learn the curriculum subjects with a new light and mentality.

YogaMusic objectives

Children of all ages are experiencing a tumultuous world around them.

Every stressful situation, crisis, tension and conflict in the family, at school, or in everyday life, affects them in a deep way and into the future.

But especially children and young adults are naturals for the practice of YogaMusic.

Their bodies are an open book to learn and observe, while their minds and emotions are in full development

Every time a teacher implements the YogaMusic method, the children will become more attentive at school, they will understand better their own emotions, where did they come from and how to deal with them.

Using this program in the classroom the students will be able to:

• Transform bad habits into good ones.
• Become leaders.
• Learn peaceful conflict resolution.
• Enhance their minds.
• Activate their bodies preventing obesity and health problems.
• Become active listeners.
• Cultivate qualities of patience and respect.
• Increment concentration and awareness with a more relaxed being.
• Discover fine attention capabilities.
• Improve their learning process and understand better their own inner world and the links and responsibilities with the surroundings.
• Discover their unlimited possibilities in terms of movements, flexibility, openness that will help not only their bodies but also their minds and emotions.
• Achieve a true sense of self confidence not giving by the outside but from within.
• Discover values of friendship, love and higher levels of understanding.
• Gain strong values of solidarity and citizenship.

The schools or families will benefit in a wide variety of aspects:

• Better students and more compassionate human beings.
• Immediate improvement in grades and behavior.
• A class or a home with more harmony and understanding.
• A general well being between the members of the community.

YogaMusic in action

The program is divided into five different areas. During the workshop the teachers or parents will be able to go through all the options of work in class with  music and yoga activities. At the end of the workshop the teachers will have a set of  activities and poses to use it as a reference. All the activities are accompanied with live music play by the workshop facilitator using different instruments to create a more harmonious environment. In the case that the teachers or parents does not  have a musical background the workshop will introduce them to different approaches to music and rhythms for the different moments and activities. Also the workshop will give the teachers and parents alternatives to create instruments from recycle material to be use by the students. Here’s some examples of the workshop activities:

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Breathing
Balloon breathing, side breathing, bee breathing, alternate nostril breathing, omm breathing, breathing with your senses, rainbow breathing, naming breathing chanting, bubbles breathing, wind instruments breathing, create your breathing trademark, breathing for protection, breathing for peace, breathing for energy, breath for pre and post test or exams, transitional activities breathing, breathing for unity.

Visualizations
Can be done with close or open eyes and takes only few minutes to do it.
Visualizations for self esteem, conflict resolution, positive feedback, stop your head, to go back to the heart, to listen to your inner voice, for positive results in class or in tests, for good feelings, voices visualizations, use of the musical scale to clean inside and outside, create your own visualization.

Stretching All kind of asanas or poses can be done in the classroom, small rooms, even seated on chairs. Any space can be optimal for a yoga and music class. Chair poses like sun salutation done in chairs, arms stretching, legs stretching and bending, neck and shoulder poses. Stretching that incorporates music, songs, improvisation with the students while they are stretching. Poses and movements to learn how to deal with opposites, unexpected situations, to regain calm and happiness almost instantly. Classroom games Games to enhance concentration and attention combining rhythm and movements, singing of students names to go back to themselves and regain a quiet state for the class, team games to build up self steam and trust on others, encourage to create games and yoga poses with everything around them (from paper, stickers, pencils, and all materials in the classroom). Games to recognize the silence outside and inside o simply to create a good laugh between the class or in the house.

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Honor yourself and others
Activities and games to learn how to put yourself in other peoples shoes, activities for self protection, songs for positive thinking and good results, different poses to show respect, patience, peace, understanding, building up  own language to deal with stress and problems, creation of a classroom choir to use voice and singing in different moments of the day. Games for opening and closing of activities or transitional moments between classes (I make a ball of light, peace, love, etc and I place it in my heart, each student will add something).

YogaMusic will provide, at the completion of each seminar, with easy to read and follow up materials to be applied in every classroom and situation.

YogaMusic workshop is available in English or Spanish or can be taught bilingual in case of mixed audience.

YogaMusic is an interactive workshop where the assistants participate, create and propose base on their own experience.

YogaMusic also provides private consultations for schools and parents.

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YogaMusic for the family!

The whole family is invited (welcome parents and also siblings and  grandparents) to share the beauty of yoga with the wonderful sounds of music, family songs, family stories, different backgrounds and language.  
It is a playful time to feel relaxed, connected, celebrating family  roots, doing exercise and bonding more with the kids directly from the heart!

Every Tuesday 4.00 pm to 4.45 pm

Children 2 and up (but babies and older kids are always welcome)
$180 10 week session

Miami Children’s Music Together Shops at Midtown on Buena Vista
Between NE 34st and NE 32 st, Suite 112, Miami, FL 33127

Midtown Miami (near 36th street and Biscayne Blvd)

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El Maestro Eres Tú and YogaMusic
Coming soon two books in Spanish, one for elementary school children who wants to practice yoga and meditation with themselves or with friends.
El Maestro Eres Tú (You are the teacher) is a book to honor the wisdom and knowledge that every kid has inside, giving them tools to show it to the world through yoga exercises.

The second book is dedicated to teachers and caregivers with all the information about YogaMusic.

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