Jackie is the only Certified YogaKids Teacher/Trainer in the Jacksonville, Orange Park & Fleming Island area.  She has completed a rigorous 12 month, 310 hours of courses to teach this integrative approach to education and yoga. She is a graduate of Florida State University in Anthropology and a ten year business owner and operator of a Neuromuscular Massage Therapy clinic. In 2002, Jackie served as a massage therapist for the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Over the last four years, Jackie feels that she has began to find what she calls her “true meaning in life” - to work with children. All of her experiences have compounded an interest in cultivating physically, mentally and emotionally strong children, and YogaKids is the best program for all our children!

For more information, please contact Jackie at 349.3193 or yoga-kids@comcast.net to start having fun, fitness and education in a noncompetitive environment.

YogaKids has come to Fleming Island! YogaKids is an internationally acclaimed yoga program founded in 1991. The YogaKids program takes traditional yoga poses and makes them fun, understandable and accessible to children with the idea to build a lifelong love and practice in the art and science of yoga, yet without the dogma and spiritual part of yoga that can often be controversial. Instead, we use a lot of affirmations, like “I can do it”.

Marsha Wenig, the founder of YogaKids International was inspired by Dr. Howard Gardner’s theory of  multiple intelligences, the YogaKids program treats yoga as a medium for learning, using 14 “elements” - among them anatomy, music, visual art, ecology and language - designed to stimulate and teach. When children practice yoga in this way, they are also learning math, reading, science and nature, as well as so much more.

Kids Who Practice YOGA:

• Develop strong, limber & healthy Bodies

• Foster creative expression, imagination

• Increase focus, concentration and attention span

• Cultivate self-esteem, setting patterns of success & achievement

• Cope with life stresses more effectively

• Learn about anatomy & physiology

• Discover a sense of awareness & respect for themselves, for others and the
  world around them