Session 1: June 4-8 and 11-15, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Session 2: August 6-10 and 13-17, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Ages 6-12 (best if they've completed a year of kindergarten)
Cost: $345 per two week session
Club Genius Session 1 and 2 with Lisa Isabella Gale
Creative & Emotionally Healthy Kids
Let's do some stretching, kids! You will get to know yourself and your feelings through art, play, role-playin
g and drama, creative visualization, guided meditation, body movement and awareness. You will learn how to connect with your heart, find out what you love and learn to explore your emerging passions with curiosity, wonder and enthusiasm. You will be supported in exploring how to deal with feelings like boredom, insecurity, frustration and confusion. In this program, you will learn a healthy sense of courage, self-talk and self-love. Food for Life: Kids Session 1 and 2 with Karuna Diedericks
The Power of Food for Kids
In the Food for Life Kids classes, the curriculum highlights the positives of the four food groups (whole grains, legumes, fruits, and vegetables) in the Power Plate. Children are exposed to the great taste and health benefits of eating a plant-based diet through kid-friendly recipes approved by PCRM’s staff of dietitians. The curriculum aims to empower children with the knowledge and skills they need to establish healthy habits to carry them well into adulthood. Topics
Healthy Cells - How to keep your body healthy - Bang-Up Breakfasts
The Importance of Balance and Harmony - In-Betweener Meals and Sweeter Deals
Rainbow Eating and the Chakras - Rainbow Lunches
Goal Setting - What is the value of working towards a goal? Digging These Dinners
Bringing It All Together - What would you like to create? Session 1 Nia Movement with Kristie Bryant
Session 2 Kid Yoga with Elisabeth Swim
Who are the teachers? Lisa Isabella Gale: Lisa has been co-creating a wide variety of children’s programs for over 20 years in Texas and abroad. She loves facilitating children in the discovery of their own personal genius and is passionate about providing the programs and creative space for their expression. She believes that every child is uniquely gifted, without exception, and considers it her great privilege to witness the miraculous unfolding of those gifts. She also believes in the innate wisdom of the child to connect with and know their own heart, mind and soul. She trusts in the child’s ability to uncover that wisdom in their own timing and in their own ways. Her role is to facilitate the flourishing of each child’s process like a master gardener cares for the tender young seedlings in a spring garden. The seed knows what it is created to become. The gardener simply helps provide optimal growth and blooming conditions. Lisa earned a BA in Economics/Early Childhood Education from the University of Texas and a post-graduate degree in Elementary Education from Sam Houston State. Her most treasured education has come from the pursuit of Self-awareness, the faithful exploration of her own inner genius and exercise of courage in allowing its Self-expression. See more about Lisa and Happy Genius at www.happygeniusacademy.net
Karuna Diedericks: Karuna is a certified Ayurvedic practitioner with a passion for healthy cooking and eating. She has been studying and living the Vedic lifestyle for fifteen years through practice of bhakti yoga, meditation and yoga asana. She has first-hand knowledge and experience of how cooking and eating can support health and improve quality of life. Karuna recently completed the Food For Life Instructor training through the Cancer Project in Washington, DC.There she learned the “The Power of Food for Kids” class series to educate children to form healthful habits they can carry well into adulthood. As a busy mom, she knows the challenge of creating healthy meals that kids will eat. Her four-year-old daughter, Sundari, loves helping in the kitchen. Sundari’s favorite vegetable at the moment is kale (raw and cooked)! See more about Karuna at ayurvedakaruna.com. Kristie Bryant: Kristie is a Nia Black Belt Teacher, Hoop Teacher and co-owner of NiaMoves. Kristie loves the exploration of parenting with her kids, ages 6 and 8. Her kids LOVE attending Club Genius and will be in camp this summer! Kristie looks forward to moving and shaking with your kids. Elisabeth Swim: Elisabeth enjoys using yoga to help her clients become more aware of themselves, and the infinite possibilities latent in the human body. Her primary teachers have been Mukunda Stiles, founder of Structural Yoga Therapy, Rahi Sanatham, a direct disciple of both T. Krishnamacharya and T.K.V. Desikachar, and Chrisandra Fox of the Yoga Tree in San Francisco. Strongly rooted in Classical Vinyasa Yoga, her teachings contain wisdom from the Iyengar tradition as well as Tai Chi and Chi Kung. Now she shares her passion for yoga with children through Family Yoga at NiaMoves. She is also a kid yoga instructor at Next Step Academy, which serves youth with special needs on the spectrum of Autism.
