Are you looking for a programme to support wellbeing and mental health in your school?
Talk to us about our ZenKids and ZenTeens yoga based movement and mindfulness programme
Our Training
ZenKids and ZenTeens training centre delivers wellbeing training in proprioceptive exercise based on yoga, as well as breathwork, positive mindset, mindfulness and self-care. We teach wellbeing tools and techniques specifically aimed towards the physical and emotional health of children and young people.
Our Team
With contribution from Wellbeing Coaches, Yoga and Mindfulness Teachers, Occupational Therapy Specialists, Physiotherapists and Education Consultants the training is inspiring, exciting and easy to use and apply in your school or learning environment.
Our Support To You
We teach and supply lesson plans, and everyday “Wellbeing Bursts” for daily use. The training comes with a 150 page manual and videos. The aim is to teach an understanding of physiological wellbeing, and promote resilience tools, and to teach self calm and self assurance techniques to our children and young people of today.
ZenKids and ZenTeens - Changing The World For The Better - One Breath At A Time
ZenKids - Encouraging Community, Collaboration, Calm and Confidence.
Jake humphries - bbc and bt sports presenter
“As a parent of two children, I think ZenKids is a great idea. As parents we are so focused on our kids numeracy and literacy skills, but yoga uses mind and body like nothing else and I think it’s fantastic... every school should welcome ZenKids”
The body loves movement, the mind loves stillness – how to manage and balance the both is the essence of ZenKids.
ZenKids Or ZenTeens In Your School
The Full Training
We can train your teachers or wellbeing staff in kids or teen yoga and mindfulness, and support you with lesson plans and loads of content to use, including our ‘Wellbeing Bursts’ for daily use.
Our fully insurable professional Children’s Yoga and Mindfulness Certification or Teen Yoga and Mindfulness Certification are 45 hour trainings where at the end each candidate recieves a certification in children’s or teen yoga.
Contact training can be arranged to your timescale, or we can train on zoom or teams.
Cost £550 per candidate, or £950 for any amount of candidates per school.
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The One Day CPD
We can train your teachers in our CPD 6 hour ZenKids and ZenTeens Wellbeing Workshop, this can be suitably adapated to any key stage.
This CPD covers:
What stress is, how the nervous system responds, how we can calm ourselves
What the proprioceptive system is, how we can use it to reassure ourselves
The importance of fine and gross motor skills, how we can encourage better handwriting and co-ordination with simple yoga
What mindfulness is, tools for a healthier mindset and a calmer state-of-being
Short term crisis! What to do - immediate help for stressful situations
Long term lifelong action plan - How to build mental heath and wellbeing into your life
Contact training can be arranged to your timescale, or we can train on zoom or teams.
Cost £450 for any amount of candidates per school.
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Our ZenKids and ZenTeens Clubs
We can bring our professional ZenKids and ZenTeens Teachers to your school either in curriclum time or in extra-curricular clubs. Breakfast, lunchtime or after school.
Clubs cost £30 to £50 per session depending on time needed.
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“We are so happy to work with ZenTeens in our secondary school. The children loved the workshops and Jackie’s knowledge on wellbeing is second to none.
Carry on with the important work!”
Benefits of having ZenKids in your school
Improves mental, physical and emotional health of your children.
Follows curriculum based areas of learning and development.
Focuses on physical development and functional movement.
Improves motor-skills for improved writing and written work, hand-eye coordination and core-strength.
Gives children a time and place to exert energy through movement meaning improved focus on studies.
Develops a mindfulness practice in children for their personal, social and emotional development and improved mental health.
Provides a time and place for teachers to observe their students for curriculum based assessment.
Gives teachers back valuable time during the day that can be used for PPA instead.
Some focus on teamwork, partnership and collaboration but also on personal development and individual success.
Helps reduce anxiety in children, resulting in improved mental health, self-care and academic performance.
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The Team
“Four teachers, over four different educational settings, under one LEA, ZenTeens adapted so we could all study the Teen Yoga together. The training was fantastic, we learnt so much - especially how to engage teenagers in yoga and keep them happy, safe and healthy whilst doing so. Jackie has an enormous amount of experience and passion for yoga which builds your confidence to teach! Thank you Jackie, really enjoyed the course!”
ZenTeens - Teen yoga in schools
ZenKids and ZenTeens is a movement and mindfulness programme which focuses on developing functional and motor skills in children and encouraging a positive mindset and improved mental health, whilst complementing the curriculum aspects.
Harvard medical school, amongst many others, have shown how yoga based exercise for the proprioceptive system and mindfulness have been shown to improve both physical and mental health in school age children.
Movement and mindfulness improves balance, strength, endurance and aerobic activity in children.
A growing body of research also shows us that regular movement and balance in school age children helps improve focus, memory, self-esteem, academic performance and even classroom behaviour.
Taught with mindfulness, it can reduce stress and anxiety in children, leading to improved mental health.
We understand that the benefits of wellbeing training are vast, but we want to teach yoga-based movement and mindfulness in a way that is appropriate to school children in our country.
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ZenKids and ZenTeens Movement and Mindfulness Programme Promotes
Learning, Community and Togetherness.
ZenKids is fun, co-creative, full of adventure, involves story-telling, and includes such worthwhile activities as time and space travel, and worldwide exploration! Our content focuses on kindness, care and compassion, for others, and for self.
ZenTeens focuses on PE and PSHE curriculum as we explore ideas of self, compassion, freedom, responsibility, identity. Our themed classes explore our human condition, as well as our physiology and physicality as we engage in challenging exercise and movement.
As a member of our founding team is a qualified teacher, we can relate the movement-led story-telling to present key stage learning, either including dragons, plants, frogs or Egyptians, depending on where you are in your curriculum.
Our research team includes our occupational therapist consultant who specialises in children at school, we have a focus of core strength and encouraging hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills, needed for seated learning and handwriting skills. We also have a great emphasis on the proprioceptive system, as a dominant force in calming the nervous system.
Our lead trainer and founder brings wellbeing, yoga and mindfulness to ZenKids and ZenTeens and therefore aspects of community, connectivity and togetherness. We do lots of group and partner work where we can to weave in themes of trust, honesty, contentment and support for practising self care and resilience.
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E A R L Y Y E A R S
Foundation Stage/ Nursery and Reception
We recognise that early years teacher’s assessments are based around observations and in a busy school day it can be difficult to observe all areas of the curriculum and capture the moment of the individual child to document. Through having a ZenKids teacher carrying out classes this will enable the teacher to observe and capture the moment to add to the child’s learning journey.
By the very nature of ZenKids, and with our yoga-through storytelling techniques, many of the prime and specific areas are targeted such as: Communication and Language, Physical Development, Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Literacy, Mathematics, and Expressive Arts and Design.
K E Y S T A G E O N E
We continue the ethos of the EYFS in all the above focusing towards what it means holistically to be a child and how we can best encourage our children to continue to be the best versions of themselves.
We continue to use story-telling and imaginative devices throughout.
K E Y S T A G E T W O
We develop the concepts of key stage one and enjoy and explore the ideas and feelings of ‘growing up’ and self development, emotionally, physically and mentally.
T E E N
We continue with all our learning within key stage two but move into more sophisticated ideas of self-development, self-esteem, non-judgement, acceptance and the complexed anatomy and physiology of yoga.
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ZenTeens - Teen Yoga In Schools
ZenKids and ZenTeens
Supports mental, physical and mental health
Focus on physical development and functional movement.
Improves motor-skills, hand-eye coordination and core-strength.
Gives kids a time and place to exert energy through movement meaning improved focus on studies.
Develops a mindfulness practice for personal, social and emotional development and improved mental health.
Focus on teamwork, partnership and collaboration but also on personal development and individual success.
Helps reduce anxiety, resulting in improved mental health, self-care and academic performance.