Cheryl

Deep Play for Kids training with Missy Brown was the learning opportunity I’ve been waiting for. Applying the benefits of breath and the connection between mind and body through a modality that children can relate to and benefit from.  After participating in the training in DPK the benefits can take place at home, school, or in a class, either alone or in a group.  DPK can be modified for children with physical, emotional, or mental challenges or to meet other individualized needs.  DPK incorporates play, breath, visualization, movement, stillness, sound, and silence.  When doing DPK it’s ok to use voice and make noise and laugh out loud.  With storytelling, by sharing or listening, or moving in silence or to music or chanting you are doing yoga and breathing and releasing, and using motor skills, and socialization and PLAYING.  Feeling and expression is safe in this space through your breath and body… what a gift!  Learning teamwork and routine by being part of the group a child also experiences appropriate personal space and independence while having fun.  Sharing and expressing emotions, stories, play, togetherness, separateness… if, how, and when it feels ok with the individual child’s mind and body is what makes DPK so unique.  We are never done learning and every time I share space with a child I learn something. Participating in the training of Deep Play for Kids with Missy and her team in the role of a child taught me the benefits of the freedom to move and make sound and the joy of being uninhibited… all with the benefits of breath and yoga through play.  As a mom, a nationally certified counselor, a trained yoga therapist, continually taking workshops to explore as much as I can to help children feel safe and happy in this world, I am very confident that Deep Play for Kids has so much to offer my child as well as any child that I work and “play” with.  I look forward to the next Deep Play for Kids and to discover  what else I can learn from Missy and her team.