Mindfulness & Yoga for Kids

Wee Optimists
Mindfulness & Yoga ‘Playshops’

10% of our garment sales go to funding our kids’ Mindfulness & Yoga Programs to sustain Optimism!

“If every eight year old was taught meditation we will eliminate violence in the world within one generation” – Dalai Lama.

Wee Optimists is a program designed to cultivate and maintain an Optimistic mind! We create fun, learning and community through a series of yoga and mindfulness-inspired activities. In each “playshop” kids learn skills that will filter into their school and home lives.

We teach confidence through playful social interactions, emotional understanding through mindfulness-based games and physical well being through yoga. Every session gives your child the chance to explore new ideas and learn new ways to play and pay attention to their inner and outer environments.

A playshop with Wee Optimists includes a blend of relaxing, energizing and engaging actions. We use mindfulness games and breathing activities to learn focusing skills and body awareness to support settling your child’s nervous system. Playful yoga supports kids’ energetic needs, and is woven into every session. The goal of mindfulness is to give kids skills that they can take with them to self regulate in all areas of their lives!

Instructing these sessions is creator of Pure Optimists/Wee Optimists, Gina Miller. Gina is a Mindfulness instructor, kids yoga teacher, visual artist and Mother of three. Creativity, heartfulness, and humour are the centre points of her teaching. The concept of Wee Optimists is to facilitate a space where kids are heard and honoured, while getting in touch with the home within themselves; and having a GOOD TIME doing it!