Yoga 4 Classrooms(R) Professional Development Workshop to be Presented at South Shore Conservatory

Meg Durkin, Licensed Yoga 4 Classrooms® Trainer offers a one-day Yoga 4 Classrooms® professional development workshop, on Saturday, March 7, 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 includes Staff Professional Development Workshop for schools, Classroom Residencies, Trainer Intensives for educators, school counselors or yoga teachers.

Durkin has taught yoga for children at South Shore Conservatory since 2009. She has Radiant Child Certification and the Finding Inner Peace Children’s Yoga Certification. In 2011, she completed Brain Gym 170, a course about brain and movement integration for children with special needs, and Craig Hanauer’s Every Kid’s Yoga: Teaching Yoga to Children with Special Needs. In 2013, she became a certified ChildLight Yoga instructor.

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 nearly 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 3500 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.

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.