Jennifer Cohen Harper – Yoga & Mindfulness for Kids: Improve Emotional Regulation and Increase Attention

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Jennifer Cohen Harper is a professor.
6 hours and 24 minutes.
Audio and video formats are available.
22nd of March, 2018
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Do you believe yoga and mindfulness may benefit the children you deal with but don’t know where to begin? You’ve learnt some mindfulness practices but aren’t sure when or how to put them to use? Have you exhausted your alternatives for working with your most difficult children? All children deserve the opportunity to succeed, and a growing body of evidence demonstrates that yoga and mindfulness are effective skills for navigating a difficult environment.

Jennifer Cohen Harper, author, creator, and director of Little Flower Yoga, will discuss how these practices may help children relax the protective portion of their brain while engaging and exercising the thinking half.

This entertaining lecture will provide you with a step-by-step method to integrating yoga and mindfulness practices to assist children and adolescents who are struggling to manage their emotions, maintain focus, and control impulsive behavior.

This framework for assisting children in accessing the inner resources of their body, breath, and mind is thorough and successful, as well as accessible even to individuals with no prior yoga or mindfulness training. It is based on a program utilized with children in NYC schools.

It is important to assist our children transition from reactivity to balanced participation with the environment, both at home and at school. This seminar blends conversation, lecture, practice, and reflection to send you back to work inspired and equipped with new skills as well as a clear understanding of how to use them.

Handouts

Manual Revision (4.39 MB)

After purchase, 30 pages are available.

ASHA Credit Instructions – SELF STUDY ONLY – 03/22/18 (0.03 MB)

Outline available after purchase
Yoga and Mindfulness Neuroscience

Engage and train the intelligent brain while soothing the protective brain.
The brain-body connection
Control the nervous system
Control your emotions.
Investigate the connection between attachment, embodiment, and attention.
Methods for Teaching Yoga and Mindfulness to Children

8 rules for creating an emotionally and physically safe environment
Making ADHD considerations relevant in practice
Creating Your Practice Toolkit

The Five Yoga and Mindfulness Elements
Connect: Techniques for increasing present-moment awareness of oneself and others (Mindful Listening, Checking in Worksheet, Caring Feelings Meditation, I Am In Charge)
Breathe: Techniques for balancing energy and emotions (Grounding Breath, Empowering Breath, Calming Breath, Balancing Breath)
Move: Yoga-based movement to enhance energy regulation and generate a stronger feeling of agency (Grounding, Strengthening, Balancing)
Activities to improve concentration and attention capacity (Single Pointed Focus, Thought River Meditation, Expanding Energy Meditation)
Relax: Techniques for calming the nervous system (Restorative Yoga, Tense and Let Go)
Managing Resistance

Make a participation invitation.
Make practices more relevant.
Modeling that works
Acceptance with skill
In difficult situations, practice mindfulness and yoga.
Faculty

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Jennifer Cohen Harper, MA, E-RYT, RCYT, is an author and educator who works to help all children and teenagers build strong inner resources through yoga and mindfulness skills. Her mission is to empower children and those who care for them to flourish in the world, regardless of their circumstances, and to negotiate the various obstacles they confront with a feeling of personal strength and self-awareness.

Jennifer is the founder and CEO of Little Flower Yoga, which provides embodied mindfulness training and instruction to schools and community groups around the US, helping kids, families, educators, and mental health practitioners. She is an active member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists and the non-profit Yoga Service Council, which works to maximize the effectiveness and sustainability of those committed to sharing practices that support healing, resilience, self-development, community building, and positive social change.

Jennifer is the author or co-author of several books and card decks, including Mindful Chair Yoga Card Deck (PESI, 2018), Yoga and Mindfulness Practices for Children Card Deck (PESI, 2016), Yoga and Mindfulness Practices for Teens Card Deck (PESI, 2017), and Yoga and Mindfulness Practices for Teens Activity and Coloring Book (PESI, 2017). (PESI, 2017).

Jennifer’s work has appeared in renowned journals such as the New York Times, The International Journal of Yoga Therapy, Publishers Weekly, and Yoga Journal, and she has received endorsements from thought leaders such as Dan Siegel, Sharon Salzberg, Rick Hanson, and Congressman Tim Ryan. Jennifer is an entertaining speaker who is dedicated to communal growth and learning. With warmth, humor, and delight, she delivers strong knowledge in a practical, easy-to-implement way.

Disclosures for Speakers:

Jennifer Cohen Harper is the owner and operator of Little Flower Yoga and The School Yoga Project. She works as a paid author for New Harbinger Publications. Her yoga and mindfulness research has appeared in several journals, including The New York Times and the International Journal of Yoga Therapy. PESI, Inc. pays her a speaking honorarium.

Non-financial: Jennifer Cohen Harper is the Yoga Service Council’s vice president. She is an International Association of Yoga Therapists member.

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