Westport

Jennifer Kaminer

Find friendship and support among other mothers. Explore the transition to motherhood and how it has changed your life. We will work together to find new ways to care for ourselves and to balance our lives, while celebrating the joys and enduring the challenges of motherhood along the way. Feel more balanced, inspired, and at peace with your life. Bonus: Learn new mind-body techniques to help you relax into motherhood. Topics include: self-care, support, balance, relationships, and more.

Jennifer Kaminer

I am Jennifer Kaminer, a Life and Wellness Coach and a few other things…artist, yogi, mother, chef…

But what I really do is help mothers redefine their lives after having children. A new version of life. A balanced life. A more focused, energized, passionate life. With a unique, creative and honest approach I assist moms in gaining clarity around want they want in life, define steps to get there and support them on that journey.

Cost of Attendance: $25 early/$35 after May 23rd

Westport

Conception, Pregnancy and Birth: The Journey that Shapes Our Lives

A dynamic all day Audio-Visual birth workshop with Anna Verwaal, RN, CLE, Doula

This profoundly transformational and healing birth workshop is for doulas, midwives, labor & delivery nurses, physicians, childbirth educators, therapists and prenatal yoga instructors. You will learn how conception, the time in the womb and the birth experience lay the blueprint for the rest of our lives. It will not only give you a life changing experience on a personal level but also teach you how to use these insights in your professional practice.

Workshop Topics
– Cellular memory of the conception, womb and birth experience
– Emotional, physical & medical events that affect the fetus later in life
– The effects prenatal and birth experiences can have on fertility, pregnancy, labor and giving birth
– How prenatal and birth experiences shaped our beliefs and show up in our lives
– Helping clients understand the origins of their fears and beliefs about birth
– How to prepare for a conscious pregnancy and birth personally and professionally

Anna Verwaal
Anna Verwaal, RN, CLE, born and educated in the Netherlands is a Maternal-Child Health Nurse, Conscious Conception & Birth Consultant, Labor & Post Partum Doula Instructor, UCLA Certified Lactation Educator and Birth Photographer. Currently Anna lectures internationally and teaches workshops to birth professionals, doulas and prenatal yoga instructors about the cellular memory of the birth experience, the physiological and hormonal blueprint for birth and bonding and the deeply psychological, emotional and spiritual aspects of giving birth. She uses a combination of clinical knowledge, the latest research in pre and perinatal psychology and health, her own birth photography and experience based on working for more than 25 years in various countries as a nurse and doula along side perinatologists, obstetricians as well as (indigenous) midwives attending hospital, birth center and home-births.

Continuing Education credits for Yoga Teachers, Doulas and Midwives available.

Cost of Attendance: $80 early registration/$90 after June 10

Westport

Kaia Yoga Kids Camp

Please join us this summer at Kaia Yoga for our Summer program for kids! Kaia Camp will delight and engage your child’s 5 senses. Each day will include movement, art and an organic snack. Our camp is designed to be an investigation of the world in which our children live and to inspire their curiosity and creativity.

Camp will run for three separate weeks, sign up individually or for all three weeks!

two groups per session: ages 4 – 6 years and 6 – 8 years

Week One
July 9 – 13: We’re in Bloom—Join us as we explore the four seasons of our own neighborhood. We will celebrate the changes in our environment through art, movement and creative hands on exploration that will engage all of our senses.

Week Two
July 16 – 20: Our Green World, Reduce, Reuse Recycle: This week of camp you can start with us or build on what you learned last week. We will find new uses for things that we think we don’t need anymore, creating art projects out of discarded paper goods, composting food and exploring ways we can use our enormous energy to protect our planet.

Week Three
July 23 – 27: Animals, Animals Everywhere: We will finish our 2012 camp session with a weeklong exploration of Animals. We will start out learning about the animals close to our homes, frogs, snakes, dogs, cats and even fish. Then we will move out into the bigger world, elephants, giraffes, and monkeys! We will become these animals with our bodies, paint them with watercolors, and create sculptures of our favorites!

Cost of Attendance: $200 for one child, $180 for additional siblings per week

Optional Early Morning Hour: 8:30 – 9:30 am for an additional $75 per week

Westport

Kami Evans

We have put together an amazing Teacher Training for everyone with a focus on children with Special Needs. Our training will be dedicated to supporting parents, therapists or educators. This training will run in two levels completing with a Certification and a 15-week curriculum design. 

You will receive the YA certification only if you are a 200 hr. trained and certified instructor. If you are not then you will still be Certified to teach. This training will cover the following – Milestones for children under 5 years old and poses to support them Curriculum Design for schools or camps. Games to incorporate Songs to use Our workbook Books to use A-Z poses with Animals Structure for Classes and Private Sessions Our goal for this training is sharing how yoga can be a complimentary activity to children both typically developing and special needs. You will leave learning a fun interactive way to bring the practice of yoga to a child’s life. 

Certified Special Needs Yoga Instructors will learn to teach yoga-based exercises designed for the class room. Activities energize the mind and body in 25-45 minutes. Some yoga experience is needed to participate. The program is user-friendly to all children supporting developmental milestones. The program requires no extra space or equipment during instruction and implementation in class. The program is effective for behavior and class management and enhances focus, concentration, creativity, communication and discipline. 

Level 2 Curriculum Development

Great for classes, school clubs and programs, Curriculum Development includes a workbooks for all participants. Each instructor will learn to develop a 15 week curriculum to support sequencing, self regulation and enrichment. Each student will share their final class and every instructor will leave with multiple curriculum from each student. 

Teachers learn powerful techniques and gain a greater understanding about how and when to implement Yoga Tools into a class routine for mind-body wellness, responsible behavior and social development.

Please note: Wednesday, Thursday and Friday meet 12 – 6 pm, Saturday and Sunday meet 12 – 5 pm