Yoga and Mindfulness Techniques for Calm Kids (and Librarians!)

Expand the welcoming space you create for your community and fill up your own cup. Beloved kids yogi, recording artist, and author Bari Koral has filled in the missing pieces for thousands of early childhood educators. Learn to seamlessly integrate joyful yoga and mindfulness into the programs you already do, or start to create a complete yoga and mindfulness program at your library. Get ready to see some big results as you show children (and yourself!) how they can regulate their thoughts and emotions using breathing techniques, movement, music, books, and fun kids’ yoga. Plus, it’s so easy to focus on the negative. As we work you will learn to cut down on your stress, quiet your worry, relax, and recharge for the year ahead.

PLA members make it possible for us to provide continuing education opportunities like this webinar at no cost. We thank our members for their continuous dedication to the advancement of the public library field and our association.

Learning Outcomes

At the conclusion of this free webinar, participants will be able to:

• Integrate yoga and mindfulness into library programs;
• Identify resources available to support yoga and mindfulness programs; and
• Practice techniques for reducing stress in children and themselves.

Who Should Attend

This free webinar is intended for all public library staff.

Panelist

Bari Koral (she/her) is a singer-songwriter for children and kids’ yoga pioneer. Her company, Yogapalooza, has helped millions of preschoolers (and their adults) move their bodies, ease anxiety, and learn self-regulating practices while being entertained. Children are discovering original content they can enjoy on repeat to raise their spirits and find peacefulness in an increasingly chaotic and anxious world. Yogapalooza has been a leader in calming classrooms and teachers for over a decade. With a hugely popular YouTube channel and hits like “Silly to Calm,” “Fly like a Butterfly,” “Going on a Dragon Hunt,” and much more, thousands of teachers enjoy and rely on Bari every day to engage and calm their children.

Accommodations

This live webinar will be captioned in English (United States). Zoom desktop client or mobile app is required to access captions.

Attendees using screen readers are advised to turn off speech prior to joining the Zoom event because PLA webinars make extensive use of chat functionality. Attendees who find chat distracting may wish to disable it in the Zoom event, as PLA moderators will verbally highlight important topics raised in chat and chat transcripts will be provided post-webinar.

If you have a physical or communication need that may affect your participation in this webinar, please contact us at plawebinars@ala.org or 800-545-2433 ext. 5PLA (5752) at least two weeks prior to the webinar. Without prior notification of need, we may not be able to provide appropriate accommodations for the live event.

Archived Recording

If you're unable to attend this live webinar, an archived recording will be available to all registrants typically within 1–3 business of the live event. Access to closed captions will be provided in the webinar recording.

Tech Requirements

This webinar will be presented using the Zoom platform. Please review Zoom technical requirements and support information, and test your connection.

Once you've joined the webinar, there are two ways to connect your audio: via computer (VoIP) or via telephone. No microphone is required. PLA works with its webinar platform provider to assure the highest quality audio is being delivered to attendees. However, variables over which PLA has no control—such as the speed of your Internet connection or traffic on your local network—can affect the end quality of the webinar audio delivered by your computer. Each webinar’s audio is also available by telephone via a toll number, so we recommend you have access to a long-distance enabled phone as a backup in case you experience audio issues with VoIP. If you do encounter any problems during the webinar, you will receive a link to its archived recording within a week of the live event and can review anything you missed.