Laura Cioe, founder of Open Hands Wellness, has brought kids and family yoga classes and workshops to Village Wellness Center. Laura is a mother to 4 and has worked with children across many areas. It has been a natural evolution for her to combine her previous medical background, work with special needs children and adults, and many years of providing daycare in her own home with her strong personal beliefs and practice in holistic healing, yoga, and nutrition. With training through Karma Kids Yoga, Laura is certified to teach children of all ages and abilities and is also CPR, First Aid, and AED certified.
Your children will go on many age appropriate adventures within the walls of the studio...they will be animals, mimic nature, play games, tell stories, find and use their breath, and make many connections. Together they will honor and strengthen their minds and bodies, improve flexibility and coordination, celebrate each other's uniqueness and diversity, and improve focus and attention... but they'll just think they're having FUN! These playful creative methods, developed by Shari Vilchez-Blatt's coupled with Laura's passion for yoga and children merge in creating an adventurous loving class where their magic shines and blossoms. Teaching yoga and mindfulness to children has more benefits than we can even imagine... check out these articles for some Why Children Need Mindfulness Just As Much As Adults Do and The Benefits of Yoga for Children.
In addition to children's yoga, Laura is also a Reiki Practitioner, a health coach, and is well studied in the healing properties of Essential Oils. Creating the highest quality custom blended oils from doTERRA and Young Living. She brings all these modalities together in each and every one of her classes and treatments.
New 3 week mini-session May 27th - June 14th and we are pleased to offer Macaroni Kid readers one FREE TRIAL CLASS!
Current kids yoga schedule is as follows:
Wednesday - Ommies (ages 2-5) 1:30-2:15pm $10 per class
Thursday - Hear Me ROAR! (ages 6-9) 3:30-4:30pm $10 per class
Thursday - Warrior Tribe (ages 9-13) 4:45-5:45pm $10 per class
Open Hands Wellness is a Macaroni Kid Providence/Northern RI sponsor.
Your children will go on many age appropriate adventures within the walls of the studio...they will be animals, mimic nature, play games, tell stories, find and use their breath, and make many connections. Together they will honor and strengthen their minds and bodies, improve flexibility and coordination, celebrate each other's uniqueness and diversity, and improve focus and attention... but they'll just think they're having FUN! These playful creative methods, developed by Shari Vilchez-Blatt's coupled with Laura's passion for yoga and children merge in creating an adventurous loving class where their magic shines and blossoms. Teaching yoga and mindfulness to children has more benefits than we can even imagine... check out these articles for some Why Children Need Mindfulness Just As Much As Adults Do and The Benefits of Yoga for Children.
In addition to children's yoga, Laura is also a Reiki Practitioner, a health coach, and is well studied in the healing properties of Essential Oils. Creating the highest quality custom blended oils from doTERRA and Young Living. She brings all these modalities together in each and every one of her classes and treatments.
New 3 week mini-session May 27th - June 14th and we are pleased to offer Macaroni Kid readers one FREE TRIAL CLASS!
Current kids yoga schedule is as follows:
Wednesday - Ommies (ages 2-5) 1:30-2:15pm $10 per class
Thursday - Hear Me ROAR! (ages 6-9) 3:30-4:30pm $10 per class
Thursday - Warrior Tribe (ages 9-13) 4:45-5:45pm $10 per class
Friday - Mindfulness and Meditation for Busy Bodies Workshop (ages 6 and up) May 22nd, June 5th and 19th $50 for series (this event requires pre-registration, no drop-ins permitted)
Drop in class on Sundays - Good Morning, Sunshine! Family Yoga (all ages) 9:30-10:15am $15/family or $10/child for drop off (no class on May 31st)
All classes are held at the beautiful Village Wellness Center & Heart in Hand Massage Therapy. *The above classes, aside from the workshop, will run through June 14th after which time we will switch to our summer schedule. Dates and times for summer classes and camp will be announced soon!
We look forward to developing a playful yoga practice with your family! Please view the calendaror follow us on Facebook to stay up to date on regular class and summer offerings or contact Laura by email.
"Our world has changed so much, and continues to do so at a dizzying pace. We all seem to find ourselves looking for some peace, for our center, in this ever busy and demanding world. Children are no different...I would go so far as to say that children, even more so, need time where they're allowed to find their center. They sometimes need to be taught how to find their calm place, how to ground themselves before reacting...they also need time to be SILLY! My goal for bringing children's yoga into Village Wellness is to give our children a safe, non-competitive, non-judgmental environment where they can move their bodies, use their imaginations, and feel completely accepted exactly where they are. Yoga naturally leads children to develop a keen sense of self awareness and greatly increases their self confidence." - Laura
Drop in class on Sundays - Good Morning, Sunshine! Family Yoga (all ages) 9:30-10:15am $15/family or $10/child for drop off (no class on May 31st)
All classes are held at the beautiful Village Wellness Center & Heart in Hand Massage Therapy. *The above classes, aside from the workshop, will run through June 14th after which time we will switch to our summer schedule. Dates and times for summer classes and camp will be announced soon!
We look forward to developing a playful yoga practice with your family! Please view the calendaror follow us on Facebook to stay up to date on regular class and summer offerings or contact Laura by email.
"Our world has changed so much, and continues to do so at a dizzying pace. We all seem to find ourselves looking for some peace, for our center, in this ever busy and demanding world. Children are no different...I would go so far as to say that children, even more so, need time where they're allowed to find their center. They sometimes need to be taught how to find their calm place, how to ground themselves before reacting...they also need time to be SILLY! My goal for bringing children's yoga into Village Wellness is to give our children a safe, non-competitive, non-judgmental environment where they can move their bodies, use their imaginations, and feel completely accepted exactly where they are. Yoga naturally leads children to develop a keen sense of self awareness and greatly increases their self confidence." - Laura
Open Hands Wellness is a Macaroni Kid Providence/Northern RI sponsor.
