Anxiety in Children & Adolescents -Yoga and Mindfulness Skills to Create Calm, Navigate Stress, and Restore Emotional Balance – Mayuri Breen Gonzalez
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Author: Mayuri Breen Gonzalez
- Faculty:
- Mayuri Breen Gonzalez
- Duration:
- 6 Hours 17 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Dec 14, 2018
Description
Do you work with children whose anxiety is overwhelming them, who shy away from participating in new activities or taking on challenges because they are afraid to fail….or you worry they’ll choose harmful coping mechanisms as they struggle with the stress of their lives?
When children can’t cope, challenges become stressors, and anxiety replaces anticipation. Our kids can’t enjoy childhood to the fullest, their learning suffers, and their long-term resilience is compromised.
Kids often get a message that their anxiety is something to get rid of or push away, but like all emotions our anxiety has a job to do.
In this recording, Mayuri Gonzalez, kids’ yoga and mindfulness expert, shows you how to teach our kids to better understand their own experience, and find effective ways to meet their needs and engage in their lives from a place of personal power and agency.
Your immediate takeaways will help your clients and students (Kids):
- Prepare for anxiety producing situations
- Navigate stress
- Reduce overwhelm and reactivity
- Participate fully in school and home
- Harness their capacity for self-compassion
You’ll walk away with a new framework for relating to anxiety, along with concrete practices to help your clients and students learn to access their inner resources, calm their anxiety, transform their relationship to stress, and thrive even when life is challenging.
Handouts
Manual – Anxiety in Children & Adolescents (5.15 MB) | 36 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
Instructions for ASHA Credit – SELF STUDY ONLY – 12/14/18 (0.03 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Outline
What is Causing Rising Childhood Anxiety?
- The Challenges of 21st Century Living for Kids
- Disconnection
- Adult technology use
- Social media
- Caregiver stress and distraction
- Over-stimulation
- Technology
- Academic pressure
- Changing expectations
- Over scheduling
- World events
- Disconnection
Assessing for Anxiety – How Do Kids Cope?
- Common Reactions to Anxiety
- Withdrawal
- Procrastination
- Perfectionism
- Seeking reassurance and affirmation
- Risk-taking and substance abuse
- Relationship challenges
- Tools and resources children already have
- Implications for mental health and long term individual and community outcomes
Why Do We Have Anxiety and What is it Trying to Tell Us?
- Types of anxiety
- Anxiety and the brain-nervous system-body relationship
- Anxiety as necessary and functional – we all have it!
- Gives us information
- Can help us prepare for challenges
- What happens when anxiety becomes mal-adaptive?
- Relationship between mindset and biology of the nervous system
- Reduced decision making capacity
- Increasing reactivity
- Impact of frequent overwhelm
- Trauma and anxiety
- Relationship and the role of the adults in childhood anxiety
Yoga, Mindfulness and Resilience
- Embodied mindfulness practices build the capacity to navigate stress
- Reading the messages of the body
- Recognizing the early warning signs of anxiety
- Checking in with my body
- Engaging and strengthening our inner resources
- Body
- Breath
- Mindset
Activities for Managing Escalating Emotions and Finding Equilibrium
- Grounding
- Feeling my feet
- Somatic holds
- Orienting
- Layers of sound
- Five senses
- Tapping
- Managing intrusive thoughts and rumination
- Single pointed focus
- Naming my thoughts
What to Do When Anxiety Shows up: Response Strategy Skills
- Ask for help
- Partner chair pose
- Take a break
- Calming breath
- Legs up the wall
- Keep trying
- Managing frustration and other strong emotions
- Standing balance
- Chair pose
Practices for Building Agency and Personal Power to Enhance Resilience
- Change your mindset, change your nervous system
- The warriors
- Finger affirmations
- Mountain top visualization
- Harness the power of helping others
- Partner warrior three
- Leading a practice
Activities to Fight Anxiety with Connection and Attunement
- Imaginary ball pass
- Rainstorm
- Crazy 8s
- Kind wishes
Faculty
Mayuri Breen Gonzalez Related seminars and products: 2
Mayuri Breen-Gonzalez, E-RYT, RCYT, is a nationally recognized presenter, trainer and instructor in mindfulness and children’s yoga, leading teacher trainings and continuing education seminars at renowned retreat centers such as The Omega Institute and IONS Earthrise Center. She has more than 25 years of experience practicing yoga and mindfulness, and provides therapeutic yoga classes to children and families as well as teaching yoga and mindfulness classes in schools and community centers.
In her role as director of the School Yoga Project, (a Little Flower Yoga program that brings yoga and mindfulness classes to over 1800 children a week in New York City schools), Mayuri trains and mentors teachers, counselors and school support staff. She is a contributing author to Best Practices for Yoga in Schools (YSC-Omega, 2015), published by the Yoga Service Council. Mayuri is also the co-author of the Yoga and Mindfulness Practices for Teens Card Deck (PESI, 2017) and Mindful Chair Yoga Card Deck (PESI, 2018). As an active member of the Yoga Service Council and the International Association for Yoga Therapists, Mayuri maintains a strong community of support and a commitment to continuous learning.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Mayuri Gonzalez is the founder and co-owner of Prasanthi Studio Family Yoga and Wellness. She is the director of The School Yoga Project a program of Little Flower Yoga. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Nonfinancial: Mayuri Gonzalez has no relevant nonfinancial relationship to disclose.
Curriculum
FAQs
Requirements
- Basic understanding of child behavior and emotional development.
- Access to a quiet and comfortable environment for practice.
- An interest in applying yoga and mindfulness techniques for emotional well-being.
Features
- Comprehensive Yoga Techniques: Step-by-step guidance on yoga poses tailored for children and adolescents.
- Mindfulness Strategies: Effective practices to reduce stress and cultivate emotional resilience.
- Stress-Management Tools: Learn breathing exercises, relaxation techniques, and grounding activities.
- Engaging Activities: Interactive exercises to create a calm and focused environment.
- Expert Insights: Proven techniques from an experienced professional in child mindfulness.
Target audiences
- Parents and caregivers seeking tools to help children manage anxiety.
- Educators and school counselors aiming to integrate mindfulness in classrooms.
- Mental health professionals looking to expand their therapeutic methods.
- Yoga instructors focusing on young populations.