I have been teaching Kids Yoga for over four years. My thorough KAY training has given me the skills, knowledge, and experience to lead creative and well-managed kids’ Yoga classes. I am available for Private classes. I have worked with kids in other sporting activities like, swimming and equestrian where they wanted to increase their flexibility and focus.

All of my KIDDING AROUND YOGA classes are designed to provide your child with skills they can use immediately and for years to come. The KAY program provides a sense of calm, balance, and power for every child that rolls out a mat. I can’t wait to share Kids Yoga with you and the young Yogis in your life right here in East Cobb, Roswell and Marietta areas in Georgia.

Additional Certifications

I completed my 200 YTT (Yoga Teacher Training in January 2018)

For further information, contact me at siobhan.dolan@kiddingaroundyoga.com.

I have completed 200-hours of Ashtanga and Vinyasa Flow Yoga training with DwiPada Yoga School and 95-hours of yoga training for kids with Kidding Around Yoga. I am registered with Yoga Alliance, the largest nonprofit association representing the yoga community.

Also, I have a 22-year background working for Shelby County Schools. I believe that children derive enormous benefits from yoga. Physically, it enhances their flexibility, strength, coordination, and body awareness. In addition, their concentration and sense of calmness and relaxation improves.

Kids that do Yoga grow up to become adults that do Yoga!

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Hi, my name is Chelsey and I am a certified Kidding Around Yoga Instructor. I started my yoga practice as a teenager going to adult classes with my mom or practicing on my own time at home. I would have loved to have a class like Kidding Around Yoga when I was a child. Yoga sends such a positive message of showing love not only to yourself but all living creatures. Through this class kids are able to connect their mind, body, and spirit and shine that light onto everyone they meet causing a beautiful yoga ripple effect.

Georgia Lenhart is a compassionate and devoted yoga teacher. Her classes are powerful, playful and heartfelt! She loves holding educational yet fun children’s yoga classes! She enjoys reading, singing and dancing and spending time with her Grandson! She is a Certified Kidding Around Instructor and is currently in her 200 YTT (which will be completed at the end of May 2020). Her goal is to get the tools of Yoga and Mindfulness into the homes, schools and hearts of the community

Kate has been a primary school teacher for 13 years and has been teaching children's yoga using the Kidding Around Yoga method since Marh 2019. She lives in North Yorkshire, UK with her husband, 2 amazing children and guinea pigs!

Kidding Around Yoga with B4 Village is taught by Karen Meade, RN, IBCLC, LCCE, CPST. After having first been exposed to yoga as a child in the 1970s who, while wearing her burnt orange leotard and tights, accompanied her mother to an upstairs neighbor's condo to practice yoga as instructed by someone on an LP record, Karen rediscovered yoga while pregnant with her second child. Prenatal yoga helped Karen have the unmedicated birth she desired, and after that she was hooked on yoga! As a Lamaze-certified childbirth educator, Karen has taught Hatha prenatal yoga as an adjunct to her childbirth education programs for nearly 5 years. Now Karen and B4 Village, the 501c3 nonprofit organization she co-founded in 2019, are thrilled to offer Kidding Around Yoga as one of B4 Village's multiple program offerings for young and growing families. Peace begins with Kidding Around Yoga!

I love yoga, music and kids! Kidding Around Yoga so beautifully brings these elements together into an experience for kids that is not only fun, but is so beneficial for their growing minds and bodies. KAY also incorporates many of life’s most important lessons into their classes, such as kindness, empathy, mindfulness, loving ourselves and others, and so much more.
I hold a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in violin performance and a Master’s degree in Occupational Therapy. Music has always been a central part of my life and I have worked with children of all ages teaching violin and early childhood music classes. I also worked for several years as an occupational therapist in schools. Yoga has been a constant throughout all of my life’s journeys and I am so excited to now be a certified and licensed Kidding Around Yoga instructor! Currently I am an instructional aide in a K-12 charter school in Colorado Springs and have been sharing these incredible classes as a part of their SEL program.
As a mom of 2 boys, I see how valuable this program is for children’s physical and mental well-being. What they experience in Kidding Around Yoga will support them through life’s many challenges. I am so proud to be a KAY teacher and feel very strongly that this is something that can change the world, one peaceful child at a time!

Donna Baia has been teaching yoga, meditation, and mindfulness to children in Western New York since 2014. She is a former elementary teacher who has taught in both Western New York and in Germany. Donna combined her passion for yoga with her love of working with children to become a certified Kidding Around Yoga teacher and licensee of this wonderful organization. "Spreading peace, joy, love and light to children is truly a beautiful thing. Come to a Kidding Around Yoga class and see for yourself all that KAY has to offer! I look forward to seeing you soon!"

Erica is a Certified Kidding Around Yoga teacher and licensee. She has a degree in Early Childhood Education, is a former Pre-K teacher and currently works as an Assistant Director at a local preschool. She is also a Certified Spinning Instructor and enjoys sharing her passion for fitness with children and adults. Erica teaches Yoga Enrichment classes at preschools and private and public elementary schools in the Tampa area. She also offers classes for Scouts, family yoga, private classes and birthday parties.

Kidding Around Yoga with Erica Michel incorporates yoga poses, breathing exercises, and relaxation techniques to help children learn to stretch and strengthen their bodies, be mindful, release stress, feel better about themselves and calm their emotions.

Hey there! I’m Hayley and I am so proud to be a Kidding Around Yoga (KAY) certified instructor and Licensee!

I had practiced Yoga before having kids and thoroughly enjoyed it, but after I had my children I lost focus and I stopped putting myself first. Having three boys under the age of four, and living in a small apartment increased my stress levels somewhat and I decided that I needed an outlet, and fast!

So, back to Yoga I went and wowee did I notice a difference! I was happier and not so highly strung plus so many other amazing benefits. Then I thought, how incredible would it be if I could get my boys involved somehow. How amazing would it be to give them the skills so that they could understand mindfulness and learn calming strategies.

That is when I came across Kidding Around Yoga. I was so impressed that I undertook my Kids Yoga certification so that I could not only help educate my own kids, but many other kids too! KAY is the perfect fit for me, kidding around and Yoga.

It’s no secret that I love kids, and during a Kidding Around Yoga class we have a whole lot of fun while learning ways to regulate our emotions through breathing exercises, meditation and mindfulness.

Boys and girls of all ages benefit from the KAY method that combines engaging Yoga poses, games, dancing, entertaining original music, kindness and gratitude – all providing an opportunity for kids to feel better throughout their mind and body.

KAY songs such as the ‘Yogi Shake’, ‘Every Little Cell’, and ‘Jogging Through the Jungle’, are just a few of a long list of songs that help with moving the body. Children are already apt to move, shake and soothe themselves. It’s a natural tendency for children to participate in these activities. It is as we grow into patterns and expectations that we, as adults, begin to lose our natural tendencies and gain restrictions on our body and mind.

Children learn through play. In fact, KAY is fabulous as it teaches Yoga as play, and as the kids play, they integrate the lessons, cutting through any stress or worries without making anything serious about it… This teaches the kids how to pick up this play activity in times of difficulty and help themselves to feel better physically, mentally and emotionally. Kids will start to see things from a different perspective and it really works!

When I am not teaching Yoga to kids, I’m working with family’s and alongside parents to help them create both thriving personal and family lives. I’m also currently undertaking various trainings to help further my Yoga education. I’m an Aussie and for the past six years I’ve been living in France, raising three young boys while my husband sees out his rugby career.

Jaime has been in the fitness industry for over 15 years. She is personal trainer, 200 hour yoga instructor, wellness coach and mom. After years of working one-on-one with clients, she recognized that the key to success was more about the mind than the body, so she returned to school to get her master’s degree in counseling psychology. After graduating, she expanded her services to include kids yoga to help children manage their stress through breathing, movement and meditation. Over the years, Jaime has supported hundreds of clients of all ages with a wide range of goals.

Hello! I’m Jenn DiMiero. I’m a mom of four amazing kids, an Army wife and a 500hr RYT. For me, yoga has been a wonderful gift. It gave me an outlet for unwanted energy and a safe environment to learn who I really was while learning to quiet my mind and listen. This became a beautiful relationship with yoga that I’m still on today! I love goofing around, playing and creating with my little yogis and watching them blossom through the gift of yoga. We enjoy family hikes, adventures and learning new skills. Hopefully you can tell, kids, having fun, and going on adventures are my life!

Lisa Hogue is an energetic and uplifting Children’s & Teens Yoga Instructor, RYT 200 HR and lifelong student of life. She is a Behaviour Coach and Inclusive Education Assistant and her love for kids and yoga transformed into her dream job where she can impact the lives of families and children of all ages. Using playful songs, crafts, games, meditation, self awareness and pranayama with the yoga postures creates a powerful and exciting class for everyone. Lisa’s gentle, warm and fun loving teaching style allows for the kids to build a strong foundation of emotional regulation, social thinking, and behaviour centred success.
Lisa loves to work with and inspire families with toddlers to teens to help them know their worth and value in this world and how they can create a world with more compassion, peace and love.

I am so proud to be a Kidding Around Yoga Certified Instructor and Licensee!

During a Kidding Around Yoga class we have a whole lot of fun while learning ways to regulate our emotions through breathing exercises, meditation and mindfulness.

Boys and girls of all ages benefit from the KAY method that combines engaging yoga poses, games, dancing, entertaining original music, kindness and gratitude!

“When children attend a class with me they are welcomed into a loving and nurturing environment and invited to participate in a joyful, fun yoga practice they will carry with them throughout their lives!” – Mandi

Mary Ann's lifelong passion is working with children. She was an Elementary teacher for 37 years and has been teaching yoga to kids for over 12 years. Mary Ann makes a great kid’s yoga teacher because she combines what she knows about yoga from her personal practice with her kid’s yoga training, as well as her experience as a classroom teacher. Her goals for her young yogis and yoginis are to learn to calm themselves down, feel more confident, become better people, and have fun! She loves sharing yoga with children!

Amanda is a certified Kidding Around Yoga Licensee Instructor who resides in the Lewis Center/Columbus area, but willing to travel to surrounding areas. She is also a NASM Certified Personal Trainer and has been in early childhood education for the past 20+ years. For her, Yoga has been a way to improve posture, increase balance and stability, build strength, prevent injury, and to escape the everyday craziness of life! With her classes she is hoping to bring these same positive effects to your child/children along with so many others! She is happily married with her three kids and two dogs! She enjoys fitness, camping, and spending time with family!

Hilary Gunby is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, play therapist and Yogi. Hilary LOVES children, and believes we have to take care of ourselves so we can provide kids with what they deserve. Her interest in personal growth and what it means to be human makes her a thoughtful and silly teacher. She believes life is a learning process, where all feelings, cultures and experiences are welcomed and honored with curiosity and humor. As a registered yoga teacher through Yoga Alliance, Hilary is passionate about sharing yoga with people of all ages and abilities, meeting individuals and groups where they are in the moment and reminding us to smile and laugh, even when times are tough.

Michelle Turini, E-RYT 500, RPYT, and RCYT finished her Masters in Clinical Psychology and then followed her passion for yoga by taking an Ashtanga teachers training course in Italy. Being especially interested in the mind-body connection and the power of yoga to bring balance to mental and physical health, she deepened her yogic studies in India. Studying directly under the guidance of Swami Vidyanand, the founder of Yoga Alliance International, she received the Grand Master level certification in Transformational Hatha yoga, Pranayama, and Meditation. She also studied prenatal yoga with Uma Dinsmore- Tuli, Advanced childrens yoga with Kidding Around Yoga, Yin Yoga with Bernie Clark and Integrative Yoga Therapy with Joseph Le Page. Today Michelle is director of the Transformational Yoga school and she leads teacher training courses in Greece, Italy & the United States. Michelle skillfully blends her experience in psychology and yoga in order to help children cultivate concentration, compassion and connection that will enhance their learning, their well-being, and their lives.

Nieke is a full time Yoga teacher in Tel Aviv and teachers workshops and training internationally. Originally from The Netherlands she moved to Tel Aviv for her husband in 2009. She is the mother of Zen, a happy toddler.
Her education includes:
Level 1 Hatha Yoga (2007)
Kidding Around Yoga Teacher (2013)
Level 2 Brahmani Yoga (Vinyasa, Prenatal, Retorative) 2014)
Kidding Around Yoga Trainer (2015)
Budokon Primary Series Yoga Teacher (2015)
Budokon Mobility (2017)

“Yoga is a great tool to keep our heads cool so join the tribe!”

I have been a children’s art teacher for years, with only two intentions in mind each day: making kids smile, even on a crumby day and to remind them that they are in charge of where their art takes them, with the use of one very important tool: their imagination.
In the spring of 2016 I discovered Kidding Around Yoga, and took my training that summer. I have been hooked ever since, and my life has been so much richer since I have joined the KAY family.
When I discovered Kidding Around Yoga it was the perfect fit for me. Kidding around, and yoga!
In my classes, children are given the tools to deal with everyday stresses life brings, while learning that kindness is key. Children of all ages benefit from the KAY method with original music, games, and sensory play as well as other tools and activities to help children focus their minds and stretch their bodies, all while having loads of fun.

I received my 200 RYT from InBody Academy in the spring of 2019. Currently I am doing various trainings, and reading lots of books to further my education and focus in yoga and mindfulness with children. Right now I am having a lot of fun doing loose parts play in my classes. This makes me so happy, and the children learn a lot from this method.

Stefanie Johnston has been practicing Yoga and working with children for many years! She completed the 4th ever Kidding Around Yoga training back in 2010, immediately after completing her first 200-hour YTT. She has since completed multiple other trainings, including her 95-hour RCYT (Registered Children's Yoga Teacher) designation. She is especially passionate about sharing meditation and mindfulness with children.

Stefanie moved to the Orlando area with her family in 2017. When she is not kidding around, she enjoys spending time with her corgi, Ruby Louise. Stefanie is available for private classes (children, adults, and families), birthday parties, community events, and much more.

Mother of 4 boys and Preschool teacher FIVE days a week. Some people say I'm a little Koo Koo in the head. The passion I have for teaching children cannot be explained only shown, when I discovered Kidding Around Yoga it was the perfect fit for me. Kidding around AND yoga!! Children are taught the tools to deal with the everyday stress they experience on a day to day basis. Boys and girls of ALL ages benefit from the KAY method. I could go on and on about the benefits of meditation, deep breathing and ALL the tools we pass on. Come on in give a class a try!! Lets change the world one child at a time!

Jannessa McCombie is a 200 hr certified yoga teacher through the living traditions of the Himalayan Institute of Pittsburgh. The Himalayan Institute is a leader in the Yoga, Meditation, and Holistic health fields with the mission of inspiring, educating, and empowering all who seek to experience their full potential. As the daughter of a very accomplished Chiropractor, she has grown up with the values of holistic health and practiced them her whole life. She loves to teach her students about good food choices and best practices to live their healthiest lives. Jannessa loves teaching. She used to be an 8th grade math teacher but now enjoys teaching yoga and jazzercise. Jannessa believes that everyone can and should experience the benefits of yoga and she is passionate about her children's classes. Her children's yoga certification is through the "Kidding around Yoga" program in the style of Integral Yoga which is also a leader in yoga and health throughout the world. She lovingly refers to her yoga kids class as her "Kindness KREW" which stands for Kindness Renews your Energy Within. They get to play, exercise, and learn valuable lessons about the benefits of yoga, meditation, pranayama, and being kind. Jannessa teaches regular yoga classes at Bloom Yoga and Wellness 123 Union Ave, Altoona and for the Sheetz corporation.

Like many others, my yoga journey started with a need to care for myself.

After practicing yoga for more than 10 years, I decided to do my teacher training in India. The initial aim was to be more self-aware and to learn how to cope with daily challenges. And it was here that I realised how important it is to connect the breath with movement and how this unification can lead to a calmer and happier self. It’s so important that we enable the children of the world with the same tools. Kidding Around Yoga is the perfect balance of traditional yoga practice and fun for your little ones.

The tools I have gained and skills learnt through KAY training have enabled me to be a more patient and understanding English teacher. Also to connect with little yogis and help them start and explore their yoga journey.