BlissKids a children’s yoga and music company. We are here to uplift and empower children and families to feel happy, healthy and connected using the sweet and simple method
that is yoga.
We share yoga and music with children and families in York Region, have since 2006. We are comprised of a team of inspired and inspiring teachers who love to laugh, play and learn with wise little beings.
We are proud to be a part of this community and love the local support.
BlissKids offers group, semi private and private classes, workshops, camps, birthday parties and demonstrations in studios, schools, pre-schools, community centres, libraries, and more. We love yoga and we’ll come to you to share it.
OUR MANTRA . . .
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905-868-3088
Children's Yoga Classes SCROLL DOWN
Wednesdays, Jan. 17th - March 7th (8 weeks)
4 - 4:45pm, ages 5-8
5 - 6pm , ages 9-12
Investment - $120 + tax for the session
Location - Yoga Source and Therapy Studio
16925 Yonge St. Newmarket
905-830-9700, www.yogasource.ca
Limited space, pre-registration required -
REGISTER WITH YOGASOURCE
Playshops ~
Parent / Child Partner Series
Sundays, 9 - 10:15am, 10:30 - 11:45am
October 16th
November 20th
January 21st
Investment - $33 per playshop, $85 for all 3
Location - Zen Bones Yoga, 474 Botsford St. suite 301, Newmarket. www.zenbonesyoga.com
REGISTER WITH BLISSKIDS
Festive Family Yoga Playshop
Join us for our yearly festive celebration of light and love! Breathe, bend, & bond in this playful practice for families and friends. Explore partner & mandala poses, yoga games, breath play, sense meditation, relaxation and multi media art!
Sunday, December 18th
1:30-3pm
Investment - $20 per person, $30 per pair,
$40 per family (3+)
16925 Yonge St. Newmarket, 905-830-9700
www.yogasource.ca
Limited space, pre-registration required!
REGISTER WITH YOGA SOURCE
Nothing fitting your schedule? Visit our FRIENDS page for info about children's and family yoga classes offered by BlissKids friends and affiliate teachers!
BlissKids programs in schools and preschools
Botsford Day Care Centre
Newmarket, 905-853-3300
www.botsfordacademy.com
Yosic and Yoga – Tuesdays, all classes
Newpark Childcare Centre
Aurora, 905-727-8859
www.newparkchildrenscentre.ca
Yosic - Alternate Wednesdays, all classes
Aurora Montessori School
Aurora, 905-841-0065
www.auroramontessori.com
Mondays after school club
Casa and early elementary classes
L'Ecole Catholique St. Jean
Aurora Mon. & Wed. lunch hour programs
Good Shepherd Catholic School
Holland Landing
Tues. & Wed. lunch hour programs
Class Descriptions SCROLL DOWN
Children's Yoga
Ages 4-8 ~ Come play yoga - move, stretch, breathe, sing, play games, and celebrate life together! Children ultivate focus, body awareness, self-concept, confidence, coordination, creativity and community through mindful movement and play.
Ages 8-12 ~ Dynamic explorations in vinyasa, partner play, mandala, and introspection to build strength, flexibility,confidence and character.
Parent Child Partner Yoga
Mother / Daughter Yoga
Time together is time well spent, and yoga together is a wise investment. In this series, removed from busy schedules and dizzying distractions, we discover the ever-elusive “pause button” hidden in the subtle yet profound language of connection. WARNING - yoga together has been known to ease tension in the parent child relationship, resulting in more cooperation and closeness.
Family Yoga
There is no better way bond with your family than through yoga, a practice that enables us to truly experience and celebrate the precious moments of our lives. Classes are multisensorial and whimsical, weaving families closer together . . . even landing in a savasana sandwich!
Yosic
Ages 2-6 ~ a journey into the melodic and rhythmic elements of music coupled with the mindful movements of yoga. Fun with seasonal songs, fingerplays, familiar folk songs, instrument play, and yoga basics to inspire body awareness, self-expression and musical appreciation/ competence.
Girl to Goddess Yoga
Ages 12 + ~ a practice for kids yoga alumni, once girls, now goddesses! Explorations in vinyasa, partner play, mandala, and introspection to build confidence & character.
Partner Yoga for Kids
All ages ~ Yoga is even better when you do it together! Join with a friend and learn cool ways to connect through partner yoga poses, friendship games and lots of laughter!
Yoga for Tweens and Teens
Neither here nor there? Discover yoga and discover yourself. Yoga is an awesome way to move seamlessly through the changes and challenges that acompany growing up. Learn "how twisting yourself into a knot can actually help straighten things out" ~ Evan Cooper, Um Like Om . . . and did I mention that yoga improves performance in almost any sport?
Boogie Babies
Ages 0-2 ~ to sing is to breathe and open up and awaken joy. Much like yoga, music transports us back into the moment, smoothing transitions and soothing stress, especially with our children. In these classes we will learn and sing simple, sweet songs that have been sung for ages, boogie-woogies and waking lullabies that ease car rides, bath time, washing faces, wiping noses, gassy bellies and growing pains. Melodies are easy to remember, as are the lyrics. After 6 weeks, you’ll wish you could get the songs out of your head . . . at least after 8 pm! Super-relaxed setting, organic instruments, like-minded mamas - Dad’s and guardians are welcome too!
Storytime Yoga
Ages 2-6 ~ Kinesthetic explorations of storybooks, where children and parents move and groove through yoga poses, songs and activities that coordinate with a story, making reading come alive! Children and adults learn basic poses that stretch, strengthen, and soothe to practice together at home for story time, or anytime!
Celebrate your child’'s life with a fun-filled yoga birthday party! We come to your home or location of your choice.
Choose from three sweet celebration options and select a theme, such as. . .
Colour Power
Girl Power
Beach Blast
Zoom to the Moon
Jungle Journey
Creatures & Critters
Mariposa Magic
Water Worlds
Warrior Ways
. . . or make up your own!
Option 1 ~ $100
1 hour includes ~
Yoga play (poses, songs, games)
Musical Birthday Blessing
Option 2 ~ $150
1 1/2 hours includes ~
Yoga play
Creative activity
Option 3 ~ $200
2 hours includes ~
Face painting or Henna tattoos (at end of party – or it can get messy!)
Add Yoga goody bags to any package, including: 1 set of brain balancing scarves (as explored during party), 1 colouring mandala, 1 spirit stone, 1 BlissKids temporary tattoo, and 1 maple sucker. $5.00 per child.
Add yoga mats - up to 10 yoga mats may be provided for use during party. $15
Only 2 birthday parties available per month, so book now!
*** additional fees may be applicable for travel outside of core service region.
AND ONE MORE MAKES TWO . . . for every BlissKid's birthday party package purchased, another birthday celebration will be furnished for a local needy child. A birthday package, including the makings for a cake and decorations, will be donated to the Newmarket Food Pantry. The birthday child and guests have the option of signing a birthday card for the package.
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Yoga camp is the most fun camp ever - and that's right from the mouth of babes!
Each day includes yoga practice, yoga games, relaxation, journalling,expressive arts, and outdoor play. We're joined by two creative guests each week, local artists and musicians that unleash budding creativity and uplift the senses through interactive, multi-media workshops! Organic percussion and drumming every week, textile arts, and so much more!
SPRING BREAK 2011!
March 12th-16th, 9am-3:30pm
extended care available.
Investment: $220
EARLY BIRD SPECIAL!
$200 before Feb 17th!
AND, refer a friend and receive an additional 10% off!
Did you watch our camp you-tube video yet? If not, check us out _
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at1BoUL2wQ4
Unfortunately you have to be under 12 years old to attend camp :( . . . but for a condensed, grown-up version, check out this link . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EiL46UbJUI
We have grown this year to include more camp sessions and three amazing new teachers, Tracy Jurgenson and Ailsa Bellof the Newmarket Co-operative Nursery School. . . both of whom have been longtime queens of the wild rumpus realm.Check out their bios on the team page and classes on the friends page!
Also meet Sherry Ramsey of Once Upon a Pose Yoga Studio, where our Spring Break Camp will be held.
Registration forms available on the FORMS page. Payment due immediately by cash or check only - make checks payable to BlissKids. Forms and payment to be sent via snail mail to:
BlissKids
298 Cawthra Blvd.
Newmarket, ON L3Y 4N8
SUMMER CAMP DATES 2012
2 weeks set so far . . .
July 9th - 13th
July 23rd - 27th
Investment - $240 per child / per week
$220 early bird (before April 30th, 2012)
Registration now open! Camp fills uuber fast! Secure your child's spot now! Registration forms here. . .
Registration made easy-peasy! Download forms below and send to BlissKids pronto at:
298 Cawthra Blvd, Newmarket, ON L3Y 4N8
NOTE: all payments due immediately upon registration.
BK waiver 2011.pdf
BK camp registration form 2011.pdf
An intimate & co-operative exploration of yoga methods; asanas,, pranayam, meditation, Ayurvedic cleansing practices, prayer, workshops, mantra, chanting, vedic fire ceremony, community, delicious vegetarian food. BlissKids Kid’s camp and community yoga classes. Recreation activities include spring fed pond swimming, beach, hiking, volleyball, zip line, trampoline, etc..
The Ashtanga Yoga Fellowship, host to annual family yoga retreats for over 30 years brings you Yogastock, a karmayoga adventure forged in community spirit. The selfless service of karma yoga is what makes Yogastock such a delight.
Delicious local and or organic vegetarian food. Adults, teens, children. BlissKids program ages 4 & up.
Our faculty has over 195 combined years of experience in teaching all aspects of the classical forms of yoga as taught by Baba Hari Dass.
Yogastock will be held at a beautiful rural setting, 30 minutes from Toronto, near Aurora. Bring your own tent, stay in a simple cabin or commute.
*Note: This yoga is not the same as Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga as taught by K. Pattabhi Jois.
BECOME A RAINBOW KIDS YOGA TEACHER! SCROLL DOWN
BlissKids founder and director, Amanda McFadyen, now collaborates with her friends at Rainbow Kids Yoga, an international and alliance accredited Yoga Teacher Training Company, to train children's, family and community yoga teachers within North America!
RKY offerings include 3-day, 27-hour teacher trainings, 200-hour community yoga teacher trainings and family yoga retreats, and also 3 - 6 hour immersion trainings within teacher training curriculums at affiliate studios and in conference settings. Scroll down for upcoming training dates and program description.
UPCOMING 3-DAY TRAININGS
~ click here www.rainbowkidsyoga.net for full details and registration info.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
January 27 - 29
Toronto, Canada
February 10 - 12
Los Angeles, CA
February 24 - 26
Houston, TX
March 9 - 11
San Diego, CA
March 23 - 25
Miami, FL
April 13 - 15
Boulder, CO
May 18 - 20
Montreal, Canada
May 25 - 27
New York, NY
June 15 - 17
The 3-day Rainbow Kids Yoga Teacher Training is a comprehensive, intensive and practical certification course.
Be prepared to practice and learn to teach yoga while laughing, dancing, playing and singing!
The Rainbow Kids Yoga Teacher Training is well rounded and intensive, with practical theory, discussions and TONS OF FUN! Most importantly, you will come out with immediate tangible knowledge and tons of fabulous ideas to create original, captivating and fun yoga experiences for kids of all ages, anywhere in the world.
The course is for anyone who loves working with kids, and loves yoga. It is for yoga teachers wanting to specialize, and educators wanting to bring the benefits of yoga to their classrooms. It's also great for parents to find new ways to connect with their children and family, and share a healthy, fun, and non-competitive movement-based activity. It is also for anyone who wants to expand a current related profession, or learn a new one! You do not need to be a yoga teacher to take the course. Only registered yoga teachers, however, can receive continuing education credit through the Yoga Alliance for our courses. . . . read more
~ Interested in observing and / or assisting a BlissKids teacher to quel your curiosiosity about children's yoga?
~ Want to extend your children's yoga teacher training experience?
~ Eager to glean new inspiration and insight for your own classes?
Join a BlissKids instructor in a kids yoga session or camp week as an experiential immersion in the world of children's yoga! Contact us for details. . .
OR . . .
Coming in 2012! Rainbow Kids awesome new mentorship practicum for RKY 3-day teacher training graduates. We help you build your business while gaining teaching experience and giving back to your community! Contact us to inquire.
Yoga with Tracy and Ailsa at the Newmarket Co-operative Nursery school!
Tuesdays, ages 5-9 with Tracy
3:30 - 4:30om
Thursdays, ages 10 - 12 with Ailsa
3:30 - 4:30pm
Call to register - 905-895-9341
Once Upon A Pose
~ children's & family yoga with Sherry Ramsey!
10-week sessions beginning Sept. 18th, 2011!
Visit www.onceuponapose.ca for details!
Teachers and Friends . . . SCROLL DOWN
Amanda McFadyen
Amanda spends her days helping children to retain, and adults to remember, the sweetest and simplest joys of living through yoga. She loves yoga like she loves breathing, and specializes in sharing it (add a mound of music) with children ages 0 - 99. BlissKids creator and sustainer, E-RYT 200hr, RCYT, Rainbow Kids international children's yoga teacher trainer, as well as a musician and a mother, Amanda finds balance and inspiration by going upside-down at least once a day and limiting her exposure to grown-ups . . .
Tracy J
Kids love Tracy the way that fish love water - they thrive and splash in her waters, thoroughly nourished by her grounded yet playful presence. RYT 200hr, YogaKids and Rainbow Kids certified, Tracy is a BlissKids Supa-Star at Yoga Source, Yoga Camp and in her studio at the Newmarket Cooperative Nursery School, where she is Queen of the littlest wild things . . . visit her at www.newmarketco-opnurserychool.com!
Terry Kelly
Terry Kelly is an awesome kids yoga teacher with oodles of insight into the rumpus realm! Early Certified children’s yoga teacher, Childhood Education Consultant, & registered with the College of Early Childhood Educators of Ontario, Terry has over 30 years’ experience working with children and families in various capacities. Terry teaches Early Childhood Education at Seneca College in Toronto and is the co-chair of the Family Supports Institute of Ontario. Terry currently also works part time in Community and Health Services for the Region of York and has conducted many workshops and seminars for parents, caregivers, and educators in Canada, Japan, China, and Jamaica. She is also a group leader with the NGO, Students Crossing Borders. She is a certified anusara-inspired hatha yoga instructor, but children’s and family yoga are her favourite!
Corinne Penstone
With a playful spirit and artistically inspired energy, Corinne encourages community to unite and shine creative inspirations upon this beautiful world we live in. As a registered yoga teacher and a student of expressive art’s therapy, Corinne supports her students to free their potential and open to the infinite possibilities that lie within. “We are the artist, the canvas and the paint. We create for the sake of creating; because creating makes us feel amazing, weather it’s on the yoga mat, in the classroom, or at home, the freedom to express ourselves must be nurtured and cultivated. Imagine, live life to the fullest, rise and shine.”
Ailsa Dempster-Bell
Ailsa is an Earth Mama - super-grounded and sweet as a peach! Certified through both Rainbow Kids and Young Yoga Masters, Ailsa teaches preschool and children’s yoga with Tracy J at the Newmarket Cooperative Daycare and represents BlissKids at Creative Yoga Camp, the YRDSC Summer Institute Camp and in the schools. Much love and gratitude to Ailsa for her playful spirit and a joyful heart!
Sherry Ramsay
"All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, all things wild and wonderful, Sherry loves them all!" Mother, wife, sister and friend, Sherry loves life and never wants it to end. She finds balance, peace and the secret realm of royal rumpus through yoga. Her nuturing spirit allows children and adults alike to connect deeply and naturally. Sherry loves children as much as she loves music, and she loves music as much as she loves yoga. Certified by Rainbow Kids, Sherry spends her days singing, dancing, playing and sharing yoga with children of all ages. "
Annamaria Nemeth
Mother, lover, yogi, and wild child at heart . . . certified through BlissKids and Rainbow Kids, and having worked with children as an ECE for 18 years, Annamaria is rich in both wonder and wisdom, and she has been secretly re-initiated into the realm of royal rumpass. . . shhhhh! She finds ease in the company of children, and they in hers. Her goal is for the children in her life to feel loved, accepted and encouraged to live in peace and heath.
Josée Lamontagne
Surrounded by kids as a mom and a grade 2 teacher, Josée loves to move and play with yoga! Certified through BlissKids and Rainbow Kids, Josee is endowed with a love for learning and a playful spirit, which she shares with the children in her life. She knows that children can be busy this days and empowers them to express how they feel, explore and learn with yoga. Amanda, Josee and Danielle teach the lunch hour yoga program at L’Ecole Catholique St. Jean in Aurora and Josee and Danielle lead quarterly family classes at the school for francophone families.
Erin Maynard
Erin is like Mother Durga, embracing all that she meets with compassion and wisdom. The little guys tumble all over her, the older ones bask in her peaceful emanations . . . the result is the undeniable sense of being seen, heard and valued. Everyone needs an Erin in their lif
“My children have had the pleasure of taking part in Amanda’s yosic classes for a few years now, and I have witnessed these amazing workshops and their affects on my children. Amanda has a way of speaking and behaving with kids that is beautiful, respectful and inspiring. Using language and a calming combination of music and yoga, she is able to convey powerful and positive messages to our little sponges! Many thanks, Amanda.”
Wendy Russell
Mom and business owner
My mom recently visited with us for 10 days. She arrived on the Monday and my son was pretending to be sick by Tuesday morning to stay home with her (he loves her sooo much). Since we knew that there was going to be a "major snow storm" on Wednesday, I encouragingly told him that his wish to stay home would likely come true on Wednesday: "But I don't want to stay home on Wednesday. I'll miss yoga!" My yoga teacher, Axel Molena, thought that this was priceless! I am so pleased that we brought yoga to my school.
Valerie, Mother
L'Ecole St. Jean
Yosical Entertainment Anyone?
BlissKids Poobah, Amanda McFadyen and her awesome friend & musician, Joe Alaras, plug in now and then, performing for children at events such as Kids Around Town, VIP Children's Theatre Festival, Kre8tive Kids Day and even preschool graduation ceremonies! Inspired by folk legends Woody Guthrie and Ella Jenkins, and modern family music hipsters such as Elizabeth Mitchell and Frances England, Amanda & Joe's shows are playful, interactive, and always a celebration of spirit and song.
"The best thing
to hold onto in life
is each other"
~ Audrey Hepburn
