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Itsy Bitsy Yoga

Itsy Bitsy Yoga (IBY) is a loving, child-centered program that helps parents better understand their young children's physical development, needs and abilities through yoga. Through gentle IBYposes, songs and activities, parents and young children can develop a deeper bond. Babies as young as 3 weeks and children as old as 5 years can enjoy the structured one-on-one interaction IBY provides them and their parents. Parents, with or without yoga experience, gain a toolbox of calming techniques, healthy activities, and supportive friendships through IBY. There are nearly 125 yogic and developmentally sound activities created and adapted by Helen Garabedian, developmental movement expert and founder of IBY, to enhance the lives of new families. Class Schedule

Children and Family Yoga

Developing a yoga practice is the perfect way to ensure that children maintain healthy life habits that can serve them well as scheduling demands increase, social pressures build, and life stressors become more prevalent. Our children and family yoga classes incorporate a variety of music, themes, movement and games in a fun atmosphere that encourages creative expression.  In addition, children will learn relaxation techniques and breathing exercises.  Children and families practice at their own pace as they learn to honor themselves and others in non-competitive ways. Class Schedule 

 

Itsy Bitsy Yoga Classes

Pre-registration is required for all IBY classes.  All sessions include a flex pass for one adult yoga class to be used during the session.

IBY for Babies (read class description here). ages: 3 weeks old to almost-crawling.

Wednesdays 11:00am-12:00pm.  January 11th through March 14th. 8 weeks, $120 (no class on February 22nd and February 29th).

March 21st through May 9th. 7 weeks, $105 (no class on April 18th).  

IBY for Tots: (read class description here). ages: almost-crawling to 22 months.

Wednesdays 9:45am-10:30am.  March 7th through April 11th. 6 weeks, $90. 

IBY for Tykes: (read class description here). ages: 21 months to 4.5 years old. 

Mondays 11:00am-11:45am.  January 9th through February 13th. 5 weeks, $75 (no class on January 16th).

March 5th through April 23rd.  7 weeks, $105 (no class on April 16th). 

Weekend Itsy Bitsy Yoga 

(pre-registration is required for all IBY classes) 

Upcoming Weekend Classes:   

Saturday, February 4th at 11am: Tyke Yoga 

Saturday, February 11th at 11am:  Baby Yoga

Weekend classes are $15/class (for one adult/child pair). Pre-registration with payment required (see link on this page or visit www.meetup.com).

Each weekend class will feature a simplified and fun-to-learn Itsy Bitsy Yoga class where new, occasional, and ongoing students can enjoy the developmentally sound yoga postures, sweet rhymes and songs that IBY has to offer. Only 1 parent/caregiver per child please. 

Yoga for Children and Families

(pre-registration is required for all Children and Family Yoga Classes)

Our Yoga for Children and Families introduces participants to the healthful benefits of a regular yoga practice. 

Each month we’ll host one or two age-specific classes that will incorporate yoga postures, themes, breath-work, and relaxation techniques that are equal parts beneficial, practical, and fun. Kids and pre-teens will practice poses that challenge both the body and the mind while building strength, balance, flexibility, endurance, and concentration. 

Upcoming Weekend Classes:   

Sunday, February 5th at 11am: Kids & Preteen Yoga (ages 5-11).  

Monday, February 20th at 11am: Family Yoga (ages 5-11 with adult).

Sunday, March 4th at 2:30pm: Kids & Preteen Yoga (ages 5-11).  

Sunday, March 18th at 11am: Family Yoga (ages 5-11 with adult).

Family Yoga pricing: $20 includes 1 child + 1 adult. $10 for each additional sibling or parent.

Kids-only classes are $15 per child.  Registration is available on this page (above) or by visiting www.meetup.com).

Itsy Bitsy Yoga for Babies

ages: 3 weeks old to almost-crawling

IBY is a calming and nurturing yoga practice full of ways to enhance bonding and make babies happier and more comfortable in their bodies. This class contains dozens of unique yoga postures designed specifically to soothe and support the development of a baby's body. During the BABY IBY class, the baby is mostly lying on her tummy, back or in a parent's arms. For parents, this class gives the special time necessary to bond with and learn about your baby's emerging personality. Most of the yoga we do in Itsy Bitsy Yoga is for the child, but you will learn breathing and relaxation techniques as well as practice some yoga yourself (no yoga experience required).

Itsy Bitsy Yoga for Tots

ages: almost-crawling to 22 months

A fun-loving, supportive, and active yoga practice filled with dozens of Itsy Bitsy Yoga poses just for tots. In a time when tots naturally become busier, Itsy Bitsy Yoga continues to build the parent/child bond, helps our tots feel happier and more confident in their moving bodies, and encourages their creative spirit.

IBY incorporates many proven techniques that playfully teach tots yoga postures while they are standing, sitting up, walking, and jumping. Parents get to do a little yoga too (no yoga experience required). Experience the shared joy when tots move into yoga poses on their own!  

Itsy Bitsy Yoga for Tykes

ages: 21 months through 4.5 years old. 

Tykes IBY offers a fascinating flow of poses, songs, stories, and games through which parent and child can deepen their bond. Developed by Helen Garabedian, an Infant/Early Childhood Developmental Movement Educator and Yoga Teacher, this age-appropriate 45 minute class helps Tykes and their parents discover and enhance their physical and social development. With alarming child obesity rates, experts agree that young children need more structured and developmentally safe physical activity on a regular basis. Tykes Itsy Bitsy Yoga is good for building a child's foundation for a healthy and fit lifestyle, and it is so much fun! (no yoga experience required).

Learn more about Itsy Bitsy Yoga here.

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