Events

These events are open to the Community for FREE !!

Fall Sensory/ Mindfulness Kids Yoga Saturdays

Young Families Program 2023-2024

Mindful Moments

Mindful Moments in the Classroom with Sherri

If you are an educator or elementary school principal, please consider bringing this special program into your School system this coming year.

My weekly Mindful moment lessons will:

• Include: Embracing Stillness, Breathwork, Yoga Poses & Meditation
• Improve Your students’ ability to self-regulate
• Help Control their Impulsive Behaviors and Increase their Attention.
• Increase your students’ ability to be present and more Mindful through playing Mindful Games
• Cultivate a positive, peaceful, and productive classroom climate.

In general, Yoga inspires discipline in children and values of honesty, self-control, gratitude, respect and kindness. YOGA REDUCES STRESS, and provides a calming atmosphere to build one’s self-confidence.

Students who have the skills to self-regulate are more focused and centered, meaning they simply learn better. Teaching them to cope effectively with stressors is key to personal and educational success.

*** If interested, please contact me for more details.
Cell # (203) 214-3587 // Email: sherri@kiddingaroundyoga.com
I’ll be happy to meet with you to create your own personal program for this coming year. (Kindergarten – 6th grade)

Birthday Parties

NOW offering LIVE Outdoor YOGA Birthday Parties &/or ‘Virtual’ through ZOOM.

Girl Scouts

Hello local Scouts and neighborhood leaders!

I would love the opportunity to introduce the Science of Yoga to your troop/den and help them earn a Yoga Fun Patch.

While teaching the Science of Yoga, KAY provides a curriculum that is specifically designed to help children be active, learn to relax, improve focus, and have FUN in a non-competitive environment. I will offer a class customized for your troop level, which can include a special scout story, meditation techniques, games, activities, and much more!

I teach all troop/den levels and can even do private sessions as well.

I look forward to hearing from your organization to schedule a class soon.

Media

Om — & L’Chaim!

by Paul Bass – New Haven Independent
Oct 13, 2016
I was asked to appear on WNHH 103.5 FM New Haven Independent/ Chai Haven to speak about my Kidding Around Yoga & Yoga Yeladim programs I’m offering to Children at neighboring schools and temples, JCCs, etc.

Sherri Sosensky knows little kids get antsy in class. So she figured out how to help them breathe and focus while they learn about the Bible or the Hebrew alphabet.

Sosensky found the answer in yoga. And she shares that answer with kids and families throughout our area.

This fall, Sosensky is teaching… read more.

Click the above sound file to listen to the full interview with Sosensky on WNHH radio’s “Chai Haven” program.

And click here to find out more about her and her programs.

Woodbridge teacher brings Judaism to life — through yoga

By Cindy Mindell – WOODBRIDGE
October 5th, 2016

Acting out a Torah portion or celebrating a Jewish holiday, Sherri Sosensky brings yoga to the Jewish classroom as a way to make Judaism come alive for children.

“I am so passionate about my yoga practice, its physical and emotional benefits and how it has positively affected my life in so many ways,” says Sosensky, who discovered… read more.

October is Mindfulness Month

How do we raise thoughtful, compassionate, emotionally healthy children? It’s a question many parents and caregivers ask in this fast-paced world of smart phones, social media, and the go-go-go pace of modern life. We do it with a daily yoga, breathing or mindfulness practice of course! Here is your daily practice to do with your kids, friends, family or students of ALL AGES. Enjoy! *Be sure to share your mindfulness practice with us by using our hashtag #MindfulnessMonth when you post on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter*

Join Sherri of Kidding Around Yoga with Sherri for a Mindfulness Game of Zip Zap Zop.  

Zip, Zap, Zop Mindfulness Game
This game teaches mindfulness. Students begin with their hands in ‘Namaste’ at the heart and pass energy across the circle (in the form of zip, zap, zop). They need to make eye contact with the person they’re sending the energy to. If one is not mindful and is not paying attention, he might zip instead of zop, etc. This person would be ‘out’ of the game. The game continues until there is 1 very mindful child left as the winner! (If playing with younger children, I modify and do not eliminate any players. We simply play for fun and practice focusing.)

Benefits:
The benefits one receives from playing this game is simply playing because it is so much fun!! However, more importantly, is gaining the ability to focus while practicing playing this game over and over again. Thus the child learns to pay attention, ignore external distractions and therefore, becomes more mindful in general.

Sherri Sosensky is a Certified & Licensed Kidding Around Yoga (KAY) Children’s Yoga Instructor. Sherri has been practicing Yoga for over 15 years. She continuously strives to broaden her knowledge base and increase her skills. Sherri earned her 200-hour Adult Yoga Teacher Certification through Lotus Gardens Yoga School in 2017. Sherri recently became certified in Senior and Chair Yoga to enable all to enjoy the richness of Yoga’s many benefits. She can be found teaching Kids, Teens and Family Yoga classes all over the community at public, and private Elementary schools. You’ll find her at local Pre-schools-Temple Beth Sholom & Mishkan Israel in Hamden, CT, Phoenix yoga & wellness studio in Seymour, CT and Your Community Yoga Center in Hamden, CT. She can also be found teaching at summer day camps, the Jewish Community Center, JTE (Jewish Teen Education) Programming and religious Hebrew schools where she teaches Torah Yoga and brings the Jewish Holidays to life through the KAY Yoga Yeladim program.

You can find Sherri here:
https://kiddingaroundyoga.com/licensee/sherri
www.Facebook.com/Sherri.Sosensky
Instagram – @kaysherrisos

Mindfulness Month: Yoga for Kids & Families was created by Lani Rosen-Gallagher of Full of Joy Yoga and Susan Fried of Budding Buddhas Kids Yoga as a way to bring the daily practice of yoga, mindfulness and breathing to kids and their families.

Logo by: Renaissance Web Solutions
Writing by: Sarah Henderson
Social Media Posts by:  Kimberly Fujitaki of Little Heroes Yoga
Video Promo by: Benjamin Hecht

You can find more info about Mindfulness Month: Yoga for Kids & Families and all the videos using the links below.