laLa Professional Development Workshops & Teacher Resources

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laLa Workshops

laLa wellness offers a series of workshops and trainings for early childhood professionals that provide easy-to-implement but incredibly powerful yoga and mindfulness based practices both for themselves and the children they care for.

Whether your classroom community needs help with emotional awareness, self-awareness, physical literacy, resilience or a positive shift in perspective, our workshops can take you from “I’ve been wanting to do this, I just haven’t been sure how” to “I’m so excited and can totally do this right away!”

Yoga & Mindfulness in the Early Years

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An Intro to All Things laLa Kids Yoga

Move your way through mindful transitions, breathing practices, movement stories and calming relaxation elements that are engaging and meaningful for preschoolers and kindergarteners.

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Physical Literacy: The Mind-Body-Sense Connection

Explore the fundamental movement skills through a mindful lens and learn how to support a child’s physical literacy through yoga and mindfulness based activities.
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The Language of Mindfulness in the Early Years

Shift your perspective and mindfully reflect on the activities, transitions, language choices and supportive practices that impact a child’s socio-emotional development.
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Yoga for Infants & Toddlers

Experience the laLa ‘Nursery Rhyme’ class with a deep dive of its songs, breathing practices and movement elements to make yoga accessible for your infants and toddlers.
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Planning Yoga Adventures for Preschool & Kindergarten

Weave movement stories together with poses and breathing practices that bring childrens’ interests to life. Whether it’s a topic like Dinosaurs or the concept of life cycles, movement can be used to enhance the learning experience.
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Educator Well-Being

We want what educators want … more time in the day, less weight on our shoulders and the space to be our true selves. Yoga and mindfulness shift stress out of the picture to give us the space we need to be well and grow.
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Mindfulness for Educators: Exploring the Beginner’s Mind

Discover how simple mindfulness practices can be woven into your day to relieve stress, burnout and anxiety – no matter how busy you are.
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Watch Your Words: The Power of Self-Talk for Educators

Reflect on the stories, beliefs and patterns that are driven by your self-talk, and intentionally replace negative thought patterns with self-love, self-compassion & emotional freedom practices.
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laLa Workshop Testimonials

The Intro to laLa Kids Yoga workshop was absolutely amazing. I am an RECE and also a Resource Teacher working with children and adults with special needs and I have already implemented so many of your strategies in the field. Even the adults love the relaxation song when they’re overwhelmed. So many great ideas and creative materials were brought to mind I didn’t even know could be used in a classroom.
Aly M. - RECE
I wanted to thank you for allowing me to continue my professional practice through the Intro to Intro to laLa Kids Yoga Workshop! It was a great learning opportunity where I learned many new strategies that I can implement in a classroom as an ECE and Resource Professional for children with ADHD, social anxiety, self-regulation, etc. I really enjoyed how you showed us regular yoga poses and changed them to be more fun for children! I had a lot of fun!
Alessandra S. - RECE
Fantastic workshop! Took a lot of awesome material back to our centre. This morning the children and parents loved the “Hello Body” activity during circle time.
Kirsten L. - RECE
Thank you so much for providing us with all the information and links. I really loved your workshop and have also implemented some yoga moves that I learned from you with my preschoolers. As I expected, they all had fun doing it including me.
Shazia Q. - RECE
I wanted to let you know that I ran my first children's yoga class with my class today (just returning from mat leave and jumped right in it haha) all of your poses and tips were so helpful and my children loved it...now asking me when I'm going to do yoga again.
Adrianne - RECE
[Lisa is] filled with energy making everyone there feel comfortable no matter what level they were at. Stress gets to me and I found your relaxation exercise to assist with the calming effect I need. It was wonderful meeting you. I certainly enjoyed our time together and am thrilled that you took time to get me the info I had asked about.
Bev - Mindfulness Workshop Participant
I am using more than one of the ideas covered in your class. I enjoyed it. I already know about this topic but learned new ideas from your workshop. Your story helped set the stage.
Workshop Participant
Your teaching style is wonderful! Respectful of your audience' needs and abilities (which I greatly appreciated as I have arthritis in both knees.) You're a very positive, knowledgeable and happy presenter. You were able to support your information with real stats and I appreciate the examples you used to take back to my class.
Workshop Participant
I want to express my appreciation for the care and planning that you put into your workshops. Our students who attended will take with them as they graduate some wonderful motivation and new awareness to bring to their future careers. Your professionalism always shines through your work.
Maria R. - Centennial College
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Books & Online Resources

I'm a Growing Yogi book

I’m a Growing Yogi

An easy to follow yoga class in story form! Introduce your kids to yoga poses and breathing techniques that are fun for them, and calming for their nervous system.

Educators also receive a Practice Possibilities Card with activity extension ideas for each page. You can make the story as long or as short as you’d like depending on the children’s interests. (A perfect way to bring Ontario’s Pedagogy for the Early Years: How Does Learning Happen? to life!)

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laLa YouTube Channel

Subscribe to laLa’s YouTube Channel for kids yoga inspiration, mindfulness activities and mini classes to share with your Growing Yogis!

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laLa e-Letters

Subscribe to receive laLa e-Letters: Special content releases, training announcements and life lessons from laLa wellness Founder, Lisa. Sent to your inbox every other week!
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Contact laLa wellness

Contact directly at lisa@lalawellness.ca or call (416) 562 4408.