My name is María Fernanda LAIRET, I am a Venezuelan resident of Savannah Georgia USA, a visual artist and photographer, with more than 25 years in the art world. My creativity, productivity and innovation is constant. Immersed in the deep spiritual perspective of peace. They make me an enterprising woman, mother and grandmother. My IG @MFlairet can appreciate my artistic work.

I tell them that one of my passions apart from art is to give meditation (Mindfulness) and yoga, to children, also adults, integrated into art, I have several years of professional and spiritual preparation.

I have gone to India several times. I have been on silent retreats at Oneness University. India

I am an integral woman who has been experiencing my well-being every day, looking for solutions in all areas of my life, as well as spirituality, food, work, personal development, hobbies, family, relationships and much more. and they all have to have a balance.

Meditation Certifications • Mindfulness • Yoga:

• Certified YOGA teacher RYS 200 Yoga Alliance | OM Factory NY.
• Member Yoga Alliance | Yoga Teacher | RYT® 200.
• Kidding Around Yoga Certified | 95 Hours
• Member of IMTA (International Meditation Teachers Association)
• Certified as a Meditation Teacher with Holistic Woman | Maria J. Flaque.
• Certified Teaching Children Meditation | Lorraine Murray London.
• Institute Mexican of Mindfulness(MBSR) | Eric López | Stress Reduction with Mindfulness.
• Institute Mexican of Mindfulness | Eric López | Mindfulness for the Education of children and adolescents ..
• Institute Mexican of Mindfulness | Eric López | Currently Diplomate Mindfulness.
• @ dōTERRA Wellness Consultant.

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!

Let's create a program for your school TODAY!

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

Isidora Guzmán lives in Santiago de Chile with her two kids Salvador and Luciana.

In 2008 she graduated from the Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, known as Centro de Danza Espiral, obtaining her Dance Pedagogy and Performer degree. She was trained 5 years by renowned modern and contemporary dance masters such as Patricio Bunster, Raymond Hilbert, Jorge Olea, Carolina Bravo, Valentina Pavéz and Rodrigo Fernández among others.

In 2012 she graduated from the Simran Kaur Yoga School, as an Integral Yoga Instructor with Ayurvedic medicine mention. That same year, she started her path on teaching children Yoga following the “Childplay Yoga” method, by american master Gurudass Kaur Khalsa. This is how she began to teach children and young students.

Motivated by her first son’s cesarean birth, she began her voluntary journey as a Doula (birth attendant). After taking a course in 2013 with matrons Guadalupe Trueba and Pascale Pagola (DONA international) she voluntarily attended women in labor in a public hospital. She reborn with the birth of her second baby, in a respected and free labor, with her Yoga teacher by her side.

She then obtained her second 200 hours training as a Dynamic Hatha Yoga instructor at Mahatma Yoga Studio & YTT, certified by Yoga Alliance India. Then, along with her mentor Haris Lender decided to become a Kidding Around Yoga trainer, doing this in Argentina and Costa Rica with Mandy Lawson.

Isidora’s career, from 2008 to the present, has focused and developed on the education field, as a Dance, Ballet and Yoga Teacher, working in different schools, pre-schools and government programs, with childrens and teenagers from 2 to 18 years old.

Satya Gobind (ਸਤੀਆ ਕੌਰ ਕੌਰ) “Infinite Truth that sustains and protects the Consciousness of God on Earth”.

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!

Boby is a KAY teacher, trainer and licensee working throughout British Columbia Canada to share her passion for Kids Yoga through classes, camps and teacher trainings.
A yoga alliance certified 200hr YT with a background of over 10 years coaching children she brings her love of fundamental movement, mindfulness and more to all of her offerings.
Reach out to discuss program ideas or to find out where her next training will be located.

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!"

I started practicing Yoga over 15 years ago. In stressful times Yoga was my tool to relax and refocus. Teaching Drama classes to children and getting in touch with all the kids around me, I realised how much they need the same. Yoga gives everyone, adults and children a unique way to achieve empowerment, self awareness, confidence and peace of mind. But everyones approach to the treasure within oneself varies. Kidding around Yoga is a fun and rewarding path to lead children to mindfulness, peace and joy.

I’ve been practicing yoga for 16 plus years! I am a RCYT and a 200 hour RYT. Teaching yoga to children is my passion! Yoga is for everyBODY; if you can breath you can do yoga! Let’s do it together!!

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.

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!