Yoga 4 Classrooms® Professional Development Workshop Offered at South Shore Conservatory

Meg Durkin, Licensed Yoga 4 Classrooms® Trainer offers a one-day professional development workshop, on Saturday, October 15, from 9 am to 3 pm at South Shore Conservatory, 64 St. George Street, Duxbury. The workshop empowers K-12 classroom teachers and other school staff to integrate simple yoga and mindfulness techniques into the class day, creating positive, peaceful, productive classrooms that support exceptional learning and a lifetime of health and wellness.

Educators, school counselors, physical education teachers, school nurses and administrators will learn to recognize the physiological and neurological signs of stress and imbalance in their students and themselves; learn to utilize 67 simple, classroom-friendly yoga and mindfulness techniques into the class day to support self-awareness, self-regulation, social and emotional learning, and resilience; facilitate learning readiness which can improve student achievement; improve classroom management while supporting students' individual needs; cultivate a positive, peaceful, productive classroom climate; and become a more effective educator.

Yoga 4 Classrooms® program also includes Staff Professional Development Workshop for schools, Classroom Residencies, and Trainer Intensives for educators, school counselors or yoga teachers.

Durkin has taught yoga and mindfulness for children at South Shore Conservatory since 2009. She is a national ChildLight Yoga® Trainer, a licensed Yoga 4 Classrooms® trainer, and a certified health coach. Meg is certified in ChildLight Yoga® (Basic, Baby & Toddler and Teen programs), Radiant Child Yoga, a 200 hour adult registered yoga teacher, and has received certificates in Brain Gym 170, Yoga Ed, Every Kid’s Yoga, and Yoga for Special Child.

Cost for the full-day workshop is $180 and includes a Program Manual and Note-Taking Guide Downloads. Yoga 4 Classrooms® Card Decks are available to purchase on Amazon.com or on site at the workshop. The card deck provides simple easy to follow instructions for each activity or sequence of yoga and mindfulness activities. PDPs and/or CEUs from your credentialing organization (with approval), and Continuing Education Training Hours (CE's) through Yoga Alliance for registered yoga teachers may also be available. For more information, visit www.yoga4classrooms.com.

About South Shore Conservatory

South Shore Conservatory, recently recognized as a national model for arts education by the National Guild for Community Arts Education, is celebrating over 45 years of enriching the lives of South Shore residents through music and the arts. SSC was founded as a not-for-profit community music school in 1970 and now has two beautiful campuses in Hingham and Duxbury. Currently serving over 3,500 students of all ages and abilities, SSC is the largest community school for the arts in Massachusetts. Students participate in more than 50 diverse programs in music, dance and drama. Through innovative partnerships with social service agencies, SSC’s Creative Arts Therapies department supports the mental, emotional, and physical health of some of our community’s more fragile members. SSC’s Hingham campus is located at One Conservatory Drive, Hingham, 781-749-7565. SSC’s Duxbury campus is located at the Ellison Center for the Arts, 64 St. George Street, Duxbury, 781-934-2731. South Shore Conservatory is a member of the National Guild for Community Arts Education. SSC programs are supported in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. For more information call us, follow us on Facebook or visit www.sscmusic.org.

In keeping with SSC’s inclusive mission to provide access to quality education in the arts for all, the Conservatory offers programs for all segments of the population to enjoy, regardless of age, ability, geography, and financial means. Furthermore, South Shore Conservatory admits students and families of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school.