Helping Kids Self-Regulate Through Yoga with James Woods
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
My guest on this episode of Yogaland is therapist and yoga teacher, James Woods. About 10 years ago, in his work a therapist in the juvenile justice system, foster care system, and mental health system, James felt like he was not able to make an impact the way he'd hoped.
When he discovered yoga, he felt like he found himself and his purpose -- and he decided to bring it to the kids and teachers in his community.
On this episode, we talk about how yoga was the perfect adjunct to James' training as a therapist, the importance of teaching kids self-regulation, and how essential it is to feel a sense of belonging.
James also shares a very wise(and crucial!) approach to take if you'd like to teach yoga in schools.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferredi, and this is episode 251 of Yoga Land. |
| 0:09.0 | Today my guest is James Woods. James is a yoga teacher, a therapist, and a wellness educator in Riverside, California. |
| 0:18.0 | He has spent his whole career working with kids, first in his role as a therapist. |
| 0:24.0 | And at that time he was young, he was just at a school, and he tells his story at the top of the interview. |
| 0:29.0 | But essentially he wasn't feeling it, he wasn't feeling like he was doing the work that he was meant to do, and then he found yoga. |
| 0:38.0 | So now he incorporates all of his education and learning and personal experience, and teaches kids and educators in schools through the program that he has created. |
| 0:50.0 | So this is a great episode to listen to if you want to teach kids, or if you are teaching kids and you're kind of struggling with things, |
| 0:58.0 | he has some great insights on how to work with school districts, how to implement your programs in a way that's going to set you up for success. |
| 1:07.0 | And we also talked about just his own experience of how yoga has been transformational for him, how in the beginning he felt as though perhaps he, |
| 1:17.0 | the yoga wasn't available to him, yoga wasn't accessible to him because he's a black man, and he didn't see other people like him doing yoga. |
| 1:25.0 | So we talk about the importance of belonging, that feeling like we belong, the importance of him being a role model for all of the students that he works with. |
| 1:36.0 | And I just know you're going to love James. |
| 1:39.0 | Quick note, if you'd like to watch this interview, you can go to our YouTube channel, Jason Crandell Yoga, and watch the interview between James and I. |
| 1:48.0 | Okay, enjoy it. |
| 1:50.0 | Hey James, I'm so happy to have you here today, thanks for being here. |
| 1:54.0 | Thank you, it's my pleasure. |
| 1:56.0 | And I want to start by just asking you what I often ask people at the beginning of interviews, which is two part question, how did you find yoga? |
| 2:03.0 | And how did you decide to become a yoga teacher? |
| 2:06.0 | So I found yoga through a supervisor that I had for a job. |
| 2:12.0 | I am a therapist by education and by trade. |
| 2:18.0 | And so I was working, working, working, working. |
| 2:20.0 | And I was one of those therapists who had a cape on and was working in communities and trying to save everybody. |
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