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Teen Yoga is not being currently offered at Yogaspace Studio.
What is Teen Yoga?
Teen yoga classes provide an opportunity for teenagers to ground themselves through the practice of yoga and meditation.
The focus of the class is on yoga postures, breathing and meditation specifically designed to help teens face the challenges of this phase in their lives.
Some of these challenges include:
• Body image issues and a lack of real body awareness.
• Challenges of a busy schedule and how to handle stress.
• Peer Pressure.
• School and studies.
• Developing a healthy sense of self and what that means.
• Hormonal and physical changes associated with puberty and growing.
 Special attention is placed on helping teenagers come into their bodies fully, to become more grounded and, and to learn to know themselves better. Yoga postures are selected to help growing bodies to stay strong and flexible, and to address hormonal and emotional imbalances.
The class also helps teenagers to embrace a way of looking at themselves and others compassionately and honestly so they can learn to know themselves, and the gifts they bring to their community and to the world.
Previous yoga experience is not necessary as this class is suitable for beginners and experienced yogis alike.
What happens in the class?
Each class consists of a brief discussion on the theme of the class that week (such as compassion, non violence, non greed etc), followed by breathing (pranayama) practice, yoga postures (asana) and a final relaxation in the form of a guided meditation.
 In this class each student is encouraged to listen to their bodies, move at their own pace, and find the yoga practice that is right for them. Teenagers will learn to challenge themselves in a way that is non competitive and without attachment to results.
This class is an informal and fun class with plenty of opportunities for discussion, questions and laughter, allowing teenagers to express themselves in a safe space and allow for an emerging of the self through awareness and understanding.
The benefits of teen yoga
There are many benefits for teenagers who practice yoga such as:
• Increased self awareness
• Strength and flexibility
• Better health and immunity
• Increased focus and concentration
• Compassion and awareness of themselves and others
• More ease at school and in stressful situations
• A sense of relaxation and well being overall
Schedule & Registration
Yoga for Teens classes are designed and taught especially for teenagers by Kate Hudson. Go to the classes page for schedule and location information.
For full rate and registration information regarding the yoga for teen classes, and to learn more about Kate, please visit Kate's page.
For information about yoga for adults taught by either Clearlight or Kate, please visit our kripalu yoga page.
About Kate
 Kate has been practicing yoga since 1998, and started teaching in 2001 after completing the Integrative Yoga Therapy Teacher Training Program. Three years later she also became certified to teach prenatal yoga.
In her early years of teaching she taught at various locations including the NDG YMCA and different yoga studios in Montreal and the West Island. In 2005 she was inspired to open Ambaa Yoga Studio, and was co-director of Ambaa until 2009 when she decided to dedicate her time towards her yoga teaching and practice.
Kate has studied with many wonderful teachers over the years of her practice, including John Friend, Todd Norian, Rodney Yee, Seane Corne and Donna Farhi, these teachings and experiences widening and deepening her viewpoint of life and her understanding of yoga.
Over her years of practice, Kate has become an experienced teacher of all aspects of yoga including yoga asana, pranayama, meditation, energy anatomy and the underlying philosophies of yoga leading to a deeper and fuller understanding overall.
She also has studied extensively at the Institute of Natural Health Consultants which has allowed her to understand the human being in a truly holistic way, seeing beyond the body-mind to an experience of true self and wholeness. This is reflected in her teaching and overall approach.
Kate has been particularly attracted to the teachings of Krishnamurti, Ramesh Balsekar, and other teachers of the non-dual wisdom. These teachings have brought her on a journey of self enquiry and exploration which is reflected in her teaching and in her life both on and off the yoga mat. She is also continuously inspired and influenced by her yoga teacher, Clearlight Gerald and her homeopathy teacher and mentor Judyann Macnamara, who embody these practices and teachings.
She was inspired to teach yoga to children and to moms and babies early on in her career, and over the years has come to the understanding that the children are really teaching her. She continues to learn from them how to be fully present in the moment, to approach life from a place of curiosity and exploration and above all to have fun! Her passion for kids yoga naturally led her to become certified in prenatal yoga in 2004.
Over the years Kate has witnessed the benefits of yoga for women during this time in their lives through the practice of yoga, in their abilities to be deeply present and connected to a deeper wisdom within themselves and with their child through the experience of pregnancy, childbirth and parenting. She loves to be able to follow her students and their children on their yoga journey through pregnancy, mom and baby yoga and eventually toddlers and children’s yoga. She is director and principle teacher with Little Lotus Yoga for Kids, who run training programs for Kids Yoga Teachers and workshops and classes for kids of all ages.
Kate’s teaching approach is one that helps to bring her students into a place of observation and awareness of the movement of both body and mind in their practice, and into a deeper awareness of themselves. In her teaching of the postures the emphasis is on being fully present in the body and in themselves, bringing them into a state of inquiry, exploration and play, in which the whole organism can become liberated to find its own natural movements.
This practice can help to release tension and stress, and help to empower individuals to connect with their own strength and wisdom. In addition to asana practice, Kate’s teachings also include yogic breathing, chakra awareness, yoga philosophy and sharing and meditation.
Kate recently completed her studies at the Montreal Institute of Classical Homeopathy and is a practicing homeopath and member of the Association des Naturotherapeutes du Quebec.
Schedule & Registration
For schedule and location information for Kripalu yoga classes, please visit the classes page.
For full rate and registration information, please visit our rates & registration page.
For information about upcoming Yoga Nidra meditation and relaxation classes, please visit the yoga nidra page.
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