Date:     4th April 2022
Time:     7.00pm – 8.00pm
Venue:  Online via Zoom

Webinar 2 – Creative Language Development through Yoga, Intuitive Movement and Dance

This webinar is the second of two in exploring how to use the practices of mindfulness, yoga and intuitive movement in enhancing emotional processing and creative language development in primary school children.

In this webinar we will look at how the development of oral language can be enhanced by a kinaesthetic learning approach. We will examine the various different movement capacities of the body through both yoga and intuitive movement/dance and how to empower children and increase their bodily awareness through learning and creating their own vocabulary to describe their physical movements. 

This webinar will be experiential in nature and I encourage all participants to take part in the movement and mindfulness activities if they can in order to have a better understanding of how to implement these practices in the classroom. 

Bio of Presenter: Sophia Klein

Sophia graduated as a primary school teacher in 2009 and then went on to complete a Masters in Education at the University of Cambridge in 2012. She completed a 500-hour yoga teacher training diploma with Yoga Therapy Ireland in 2013 and has been working as a yoga teacher for adults and children ever since. She has set up yoga and dance after-school clubs in a variety of different schools she has worked at, including internationally in Stockholm, Sweden. She has been developing her own practice of meditation, mindfulness and yoga since 2002 and has used it in the classroom with her students since the start of her career. She has had a passion for dance since she was a child and has worked with Dublin-based dance company Coiscéim on such outreach projects as Creative Steps and The Choreography Project. She is also a certified Life Coach with a diploma from Mindstream and works with clients on various issues including enhancing creativity, self-compassion, improving body image and developing a better relationship with their bodies.