Yoga for Kids and Their Grown-Ups with Katherine Priore Ghannam

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This week, I talk to Katherine Priore Ghannam all about yoga for kids and her innovative program Headstand, which offered yoga to low-income K-12 schools around San Francisco.

We cover some of the lessons Katherine learned from starting her passion project from scratch, and why it's oh-so-beneficial to introduce yoga and mindfulness in schools.

Whether you're interested in sharing yoga with kids or just need some inspiration to keep working toward your goals, this episode is for you.

We talk about:

* The story of how Headstand got its start (and why she kept at it despite many of the kids initial resistance)

* Why she designed the yoga program as part of the school curriculum

* How she uses the techniques she's learned teaching school children into her own family

* Practical tips for how to introduce yoga to children at different ages

Show notes: http://www.jasonyoga.com/podcast/episode146

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0:00.0	Hey everyone I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 146 of Yoga Land.
0:07.2	Today my guest is Catherine Piori Gunnham who is a dear friend of mine in a massively impressive person.
0:14.0	She was on episode 16, so if you enjoy this one you can go back and listen to that one as well.
0:20.0	Catherine is the founder of an organization called Headstand, which was an innovative nonprofit
0:27.6	that taught mindfulness programs and yoga to K through 12 students in low-income schools in California. and a mom of two little girls and she has a new book called Yoga for Kids and I have
0:45.3	been wanting to do a Yoga for Kids episode for a very long time and I've gotten
0:50.6	some great pitches but it's a really complicated topic and so I wanted to start with someone who I know well and who is just so well versed both from the perspective of teaching in a school setting and then also from the perspective of being a mother.
1:06.0	I myself still struggle to figure out how I want to impart yoga to our daughter and it's something that sometimes I feel like I do really well and sometimes life takes over and I don't want her interrupting my practice.
1:23.0	And I don't have sort of the inner resources
1:26.0	to constantly figure things out in terms of persuading her
1:30.0	and interesting her in the practice.
1:33.0	So this conversation I had with Catherine,
1:35.0	I wanted to give you guys a little bit of background
1:38.0	of Headstand and what she did with Headstand
1:41.0	and why she developed the program the way that she did.
1:45.3	For those teachers out there listening, who might be thinking about starting to take their
1:51.0	yoga teaching to the school systems.
1:53.9	Because she did it in a very conscious and organized,
1:57.9	isn't a great word, but in a very organized way
2:00.9	so that Headstand was part of the school curriculum, which meant that it wasn't an
2:07.1	elective for students, they didn't have a choice, whether they wanted to be
2:10.4	there or not, they had to be. And that gave her a chance to consistently
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