Contact us at (803) 675-5300.
Winter/Spring 2025!
Class Description
Could a young person in your life benefit from learning how to anchor his/her thoughts and attention when things seem out of control? Techniques to reduce anxiety and stress? Develop self-awareness and self-regulation skills? Strengthen their ability to sustain attention in our fast paced and demanding world today? Build resiliency and cultivate self-compassion? This is the class for you!
Participants will
- stretch and strengthen their bodies through yoga postures and various motor activities
- build social skills through interactive games and stories with related yoga poses
- improve focus and attention by participating in developmentally appropriate yoga & mindfulness games that incorporate self-regulation strategies and breathing techniques
- end each class with calming relaxation time (guided stories, visualizations and breath work)
*A minimal number of 3 and a max number of 10 kids
About the Classes
Movement Mindfulness and Me’s Young Yogis Mindful Adventures classes are dedicated to exploring mindfulness and what this current “buzz” word means to our young people today. Each class begins with a mindfulness lesson followed by a series of yoga postures, movements and games, and closes with a time of relaxation. The lessons are designed to develop self-regulation skills, strengthen the ability to sustain attention, enhance compassion toward themselves and others, and much more. They discover the ability to anchor themselves when things seem out of control and develop ways to feel increasingly confident while learning methods of reducing anxiety and stress. Through movement, stillness, stories, and games, the children mindfully explore their inner and outer worlds, while cultivating a very beneficial life skill!
Are you interested in hosting a Children’s, Tween, Teen or Parenting Workshop or an adaptive yoga class at your studio, library, office or community center/facility?
Movement, Mindfulness and Me Family Yoga is a group of teachers and therapists focusing on and certified in children’s yoga and mindfulness that has expanded to include chair yoga, adaptive yoga and other specialty areas!
As parents, therapists, educators, counselors, adult yogi’s, and people who just simply love to work with children, we work hard to provide a foundation of success for children and those teaching children, and yoga can be a big key to their success.
The benefits of yoga, teaching one to be aware of connecting body awareness, movement, emotions and more with their own breath, has been shown to improve self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-confidence both physically and emotionally! Studies also show improved attention, decrease anxiety, improved strength, balance, etc. & an increase in overall ease & health when practicing mindfulness and yoga postures!
Our teachers love being able to share the practice of yoga & mindfulness in a fun engaging way that reaches out and connects to the children, adults & entire families that participate in MMM’s classes. All of our children’s instructors hold not only their RYT (registered yoga teacher) but also the RCYT (registered children’s yoga teacher) certification and many of them have certifications with Mindful Schools and other higher education entities. All teachers are RYT’s registered with Yoga Alliance and each works in other capacities, therapists, nurses, etc. but all thoroughly enjoy teaching skills that our students can use to assist them in the life “off the mat” that we each face every-day!
About Our Practice
Founded by an occupational therapist in 2017, we provide yoga & mindfulness workshops to children as well as families, seniors and specialty interest groups. MMM was created to support the growing awareness of the benefits of yoga to children and families.
As a parent and pediatric therapist who found yoga later in life, our founder realized how important sharing the practice of yoga with children could be. Combining a love for every type of kooky kid behaviors with the grounded understanding of yoga, Movement Mindfulness and Me was born within a local school system in 2017.
Once interest took hold, and local adults were interested the next step was easy… Bring kids yoga to the community we love and live in! We were surprised at first when we were also asked to teach to local specialty populations but WHY NOT? Yoga & Mindfulness can benefit nearly everyone can it not? It is not limited to any one group of persons!
Who We Serve!
At Movement, Mindfulness and Me we believe in supporting all persons. Yoga & Mindfulness can benefit nearly everyone can it not? It is not limited to any one group of persons or physical types!
We are happy to provide MMM’s signature “Someone Who Loves Me and Me” to both pre-schoolers and middle school ages alike, our “Young Yogis” children’s, tween and TEEN ONLY! Workshops, as well as workshops for caregivers/ parents.
We are also happy to staff tween and TEEN yoga, chair yoga, gentle yoga, yoga for dementia/memory care & yoga for those with different abilities within various locations in our communities including therapy offices, day centers, schools and pre-schools!
Most sessions occur within the setting of existing yoga studios in the greater Fort Mill area or within other programs such as libraries, senior centers, pre-schools, private schools, as well as neighborhood community centers etc. We work with our groups to provide classes and workshops within the space most natural to them.
If you are looking for anything specific, please do let us know as we’d be happy to look into creating it for you and yours.
Children & Tween Yoga & Mindfulness Programming
Hour long classes (Aug- June) and Summer Camps (Mornings June- August). Children participate in yoga-based games/activities and mindfulness lessons that, with practice, improve self- awareness, awareness of others, and ability to self-regulate. Through practice, just like any sport or musical instrument, these social-emotional skills become more automatic and occur more naturally in daily life.
Adult Yoga
A comfortable studio space is provided where one can explore yoga. As a beginner or someone returning to yoga after a time away you will find a supportive and nurturing environment. We encourage you to meet your body where it is each time you come to your mat and to love its movements and abilities as you expand your practice. Modifications are provided and teachers encourage the use of props during practice. Props support the body and assist in providing the “just right” challenge. We encourage meeting your edge without pain or discomfort while discovering the ease of expanding both the physical and mental body.