Green Yoga Association - Practice lightly on the Earth

The First Green Yoga Children’s Conference will be an event like no other. Our mission is to educate and empower the next generation through the multi-disciplined practices of Green Yoga, providing engaging experiential education that integrates yoga, eco-awareness and fun! Click here to see a detailed schedule.

We are creating the forum to receive the wisdom of today’s youth and to celebrate their power, creativity and vision. Having children present at the Conference is a potent reminder of the circle of life, and that our actions have ramifications lifetimes beyond our own. It is also a reminder that change is the only constant, and that each generation gives us a fresh chance to make that change a positive one. By integrating the parents into a portion of the children’s program, and by inviting the children to participate in the closing plenary session, we are also affirming the value and necessity of the inter-generational global family to bring about long-term healing for the earth and humanity.

The Program

This program is lead by some of the most innovative children’s yoga teachers in the field, experts in the art of joyfully addressing the mind-body-spirit of each child.

Classes will include
· Yoga asanas, movement, dance and song,
· Eco-art, outdoor hiking and gathering adventures
· Storytelling and interactive performances.

Childrens Conference Faculty and Classes

Rana Lee Araneta
Rana Lee Araneta has been watering the seeds of youth empowerment for 10 years. Rana has taught yoga, circus and eco awareness in public and private schools in the Bay Area and New York within " superhero" programs she has designed as well as for prestigious organizations such as Greensphere www.greensphere.org, Circus Minimus www.circusminimus.com, and the Natural World Museum's global Planet Art Program www.artintoaction.org, in partnership with the United Nations Environmental Program www.UNEP.org, Full Circle Learning www.fullcirclelearning.org, SF environment www.sfenvironment.com, and Zeum Museum www.zeum.org. She is the founder of the Green Circus http://www.greencircus.org, and is in preproduction to do an eco film project in the Yucatan with youth, for Friends of Calakmul www.calakmul.org. She is excited to share her passion for global youth empowerment with the honorable community at the Green Yoga conference! For more information on Rana's various projects please visit www.acroyoga.org, www.artintoaction.org, www.calakmul.org. Rana will also be presenting a Keynote Speech.

My Big Little Footprint
Through yoga, sensory games, hiking, music, dance and
art, the children will tap into their intuitive sense
of relating to nature as a part of themselves-inside
their body and out. After understanding their
connection as small beings in relation to the grand
universe, they will take their new found knowledge and
embody who they are RIGHT NOW as leaders of today,
knowing that there is nothing they cannot be, do or
have.

Their art, and camera interviews will be taken to the
United Nations World Environment Day in Oslo Norway,
to be displayed for the whole world to see!

Hasita Nadai
Hasita is a 500 Hour RYT, a professional level Kripalu Yoga Teacher, Reiki Master and an Energy Medicine Healer. She is a deep ecologist, biologist and geologist. Hasita roams the natural world, as a mountaineer, canoer, skier and geologist. She journeys through the inner world through yoga and meditation. She creates Yogagaia, where through the practice of yoga our deep connection to the earth is revealed.

Yogagaia
Yogagaia tells the story of the universe, which is our story. We will be in a circle and I will lead slow yogic movements that are carefully coordinated with text and music. While in the circle we become the universe. It becomes a playful ritual, with the message “it is a miracle that we are here” and with the first cell, that came to be we receive memory, therefore: “I was there and you were there”. When we become aware that the story is ours, that the trees, the galaxies, the stars and our bodies are all made of the same stuff, we realize that we are all connected. We begin with a short introduction and sharing end in shavasana . The kids will then receive drawing paper and crayons on which they can illustrate ‘their’ universe.

Questions? Call 1-888-659-7925 x1 or 415-564-7336.

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