Learning Tree Yoga was founded to share a life-long love of learning and promote the health and well-being of children's minds, bodies, and spirits!
Through the highest quality teaching of age appropriate yoga we hope...
- To positively engage our minds, bodies and spirits and set a lifelong foundation for well-being as we move through our learning together.
- To unlock inner potential and increase focus, concentration and attention span.
- To spread enthusiasm for learning to the communities we reach with what and how we teach.
- To bring awareness, inner joy and balance into the community.
Founder Jessie Forston
Jessie has been an elementary school teacher for eight years. She received her Masters of Education from the University of Minnesota and is currently teaching in Edina. Early on in her career, she began noticing the effects of fast paced lives on the faces of the six-year-olds that walked through her classroom door. She saw the daily stresses that her students were bringing to school and how busy parents, never-ending lessons and activities, and pressure to be the best was affecting our children today. So she decided to do something about it.
Jessie had been practicing yoga on and off for about 12 years and recently began practicing more regularly to reduce the stress in her fast paced life. Through her personal practice, she began to realize how powerful yoga can be at bringing balance, focus and inner joy to daily life. So she began to search out avenues for children. Through her research she came upon YogaKids.
YogaKids is a unique approach to integrative learning using yoga as a pathway. Reading, storytelling, music, creative arts and earthcare blend seamlessly with yoga movement to educate the "whole" child. The YogaKids curriculum provides children with an exciting new way to explore and appreciate their academic and creative potential. Children learn invaluable skills that set the groundwork for meeting challenges and growing strong physically, mentally and emotionally, cultivating self-esteem for a lifetime of successful achievement. (Marsha Wenig)
Now a Certified YogaKids Facilitator and YogaKids Trainer, she feels ready and excited to share this learning with children of all ages.
In addition to YogaKids, Jessie is a Trainer of Trainers for Thinking Maps , has completed Brain Gym 101, and has taken classes by Susan Kaiser Greenland of InnerKids to share mindful awareness with children.