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Our mission is to support the adults bringing yoga and mindfulness to youth. Your support makes that possible.

The National Kids Yoga Conference is a professional learning network that promotes equity, diversity, and inclusion among its membership, leadership, and in access to yoga and mindfulness education in order to support the physical and social emotional health and self-realization of children and youth.

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The conference is a project of YoKid, a 501(c)3 educational organization, and depends on the financial support of our donors

Support Community Scholarships for the 2021 Conference

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Attend events, engage in our forums (coming soon), become a member of our Kids Yoga Conference Circle or list your organization in our directory

Sponsor the Conference

Our sponsors make our annual event possible while raising awareness of their organization and making important connections within the kids yoga and mindfulness community

7th Annual Conference Event

April 16-May 1, 2021

Expertly led live and recorded workshops, movement practices, networking opportunities, contents and giveaways, and more. Join us virtually from wherever you are.

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Embodied Hope, written by Laura Shaw + Mandy Noa, Paint Love

Laura Shaw, a 200-hour certified yoga instructor and trauma informed children's yoga teacher and Mandy Noa, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and School Social worker along with a certified children's yoga teacher and play therapist in-training share about trauma and...

Sharing Joy Through Music with Lianne Bassin

Lianne Bassin, Children's yoga + mindfulness teacher and singer/songwriter shares about her experience as a kids yoga and mindfulness educator and songwriter. Plus, check out her tips + resources for how to use songs/music in your classes. About Lianne Bassin New...

Conference Countdown Contest

The 2021 Kids Yoga Conference is less than 2 weeks away! To celebrate, we are doing daily giveaways starting April 6 and everyone who enters will win a free download of the printable YoKid Coloring and Activity Booklet. Earn more entries for referring friends,...

Frequently Asked Conference Questions

What is "full conference registration"? Most of the conference workshops, all of the networking sessions, the sponsor resources fair, and the movement classes are covered by one registration fee (all pricing tiers have the same access). There are a couple of...

Continuing Ed for the 2021 Annual Conference Event

There are more than 60 hours of educational workshops, presentations, and experiential learning opportunities through this year's conference! For those of us who need to periodically demonstrate our life-long learning to professional credentialing organizations,...

Presenter Spotlight: Kenneth Strickland

The conference is please to present Kenneth Strickland, of Radical Yoga and Y.O.G.A. for Youth NC, twice during the 2021 annual conference event. Kenn is presenting along with Keval Kaur Khalsa and Mshinda Middleton-Brown on lessons from establishing a yoga program in...

Yogis Being Flexible – Pivoting to Online Teaching

Pivoting from In Person to Online in Response to COVID-19 The yoga is still yoga and teaching is still teaching, but the coronavirus pandemic has made yoga teachers adapt their techniques and use a lot more technology to operate through stay-at-home orders and social...

Technical Tips for Teaching Online

Yoga Alliance CE Resources Yoga Alliance has been presenting an enormous amount of online education since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and a couple of presentations have specifically been about the technology of teaching online that would be relevant to...

Guest Post Submission Form

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Presenter Spotlight: Shari Vilchez-Blatt

Shari Vilchez-Blatt is the Founder and Director of Karma Kids Yoga. Shari has trained over sixteen hundred people around the world to teach yoga to children through the Karma Kids Yoga Teacher Training Program. Many of them have started their own kids yoga...

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