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Yoga & Mindfulness Tools for the Classroom: Increase Engagement and Focus, Decrease Anxiety and Dysregulation, Support Academic Success – Argos Gonzalez

Imagine your classroom full of calm, yet alert and engaged students with strong self-awareness, and the capacity to navigate challenging and stressful situations thoughtfully and confidently!

In this seminar, I will share with you yoga and mindfulness-based tools to develop the inner resilience students need to navigate physical, mental and emotional stress, and overcome barriers to learning. I will show you how to bring these practices to your school in a simple and effective way. Yoga and mindfulness may help make your students’ lives healthier, and increase their capacity to learn effectively, handle distraction, manage challenging emotions, self-regulate behavior, and achieve personal and academic success!

This seminar balances practical activities with theory to be taught in the classroom without mats and prior yoga or mindfulness experience.

• Share simple, powerful 1-5 minute yoga and mindfulness practices in your classroom
• Learn how yoga and mindfulness impact a child’s brain, and how you can harness this knowledge to help your students thrive
• Explore strategies for increasing focus and reducing anxiety during test-prep and testing
• Discover ways to improve classroom climate, maximize the potential of transitions, and minimize dysregulation and disruption
• Mindfulness practices to support your own capacity for skillful action during challenging student behavior

1. Recognize the relationship between brain, nervous system, and body, and how yoga and mindfulness can support learning
2. Implement yoga and mindfulness activities in the classroom safely and effectively
3. Implement practices that reduce student anxiety
4. Maximize focused engagement in students and teach them to manage distractions
5. Support capacity for self-awareness and self-regulation
6. Improve classroom climate and gain tools for navigating challenging behavior

Yoga and Mindfulness Support Learning

• The Brain-Body-Nervous System Relationship
• Cultivating Student’s Inner Resources of Body, Breath and Mind
• The Five Elements of Yoga and Mindfulness
  • Connect: Increase Present-Moment Awareness of Self, Others and the Environment
  • Breathe: Stabilize Energy and Emotions, Regulate Nervous System
  • Move: Increase Engagement and Boost Brain Activity
  • Focus: Manage Distractions, Increase Focus and Attention Capacity
  • Relax: Calm the Nervous System and Improve Energy and Classroom Climate

Ready to Learn: Set the Stage for Success

• Enhance Your Classroom Climate
• Create Mindfulness-Based Routines
• Manage and Maximize Transitions

Transform Classroom Challenges into Opportunities

• Navigate Student Anxiety, Stress and Overwhelm in the Classroom
• Increase Energy and Engagement through Movement and Breathwork
• Prepare for Testing and Learn
• Test-Taking Strategies
• Manage Distractions and Strengthen Focus through Movement and Mindfulness Practices

Create a Mindful School Culture

• Mindfully (and Effectively) Respond to Challenging Behavior
• Accessibility, Inclusivity, and Secularism in School-Based Yoga
• Reflective Teaching: Become a Mindful Educator
• Reduce Teacher Stress, Avoid Burnout, and Minimize Secondary Trauma