YogaBugs camp

Shannon LeClair
Times Reporter

 

Pranava Yoga Studio is offering a new YogaBugs summer camp for the community. The camps will be offered to children in Grades 1-3 and 4-6.
“It is going to be really focused individually on the children succeeding in the camp,” said Becky Stone, owner of Pranava. “They’ll be getting one hour of yoga with me and then the rest of the day will include lots of different things in terms of keeping it focused on the yoga principles of self-awareness, breath capacity and power of calming the mind that is geared to how a kid is going to learn it through fun.”
There will be outdoor adventures, hiking around town and seeing what the community can teach them, and learning about making healthy lifestyle choices.
“By keeping our group small it allows us to do some really neat activities, so we’re looking at doing a smoothie day where the kids can build their own smoothies and little cooking classes here and there,” said Stone.
“We’re going to be teaching meditation but we’re going to be doing it in ways that incorporates compassion towards the rest of the children in the group.”
Throughout the rest of the day they will continue to build body awareness as well as incorporating the principles of yoga.
Stone said the groups are recommended age groups only, if families feel like they want siblings to participate in the same week, it can be discussed. There will also be special pricing for people that sign up for two weeks at a time, or for a second sibling. Pricing is $200 a week, or $180 for the specialty pricing.
Participants will need to bring the usual – water bottles, packed lunch, and sunscreen, if you use a special one, but there will sunscreen options as well. There has been children’s programming at the studio for a couple of years and Stone said the instructors and members love having the opportunity to get to know the children individually.
“As we get to know kids better through our yoga classes, we realized we can really relate to them and how they learn and how they communicate so that we can communicate with them,” said Stone. “Through those lines of trust and relationship we can really start to build a foundation of what we believe is most important, competence, self-awareness, compassion and empathy.”
The camps will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday to Friday. More info about the camps and the dates they will be offered can be found at http://www.pranavayoga.ca/#!kids–teens/cj7k.