Youth Athletes: Joint Freeing Yoga
A 20-Minute Class For Youth Athletes + Bonus Material
Join CEC trainer Ann Biese as she guides you through a Joint Freeing Series of Yoga (JFS) for youth athletes. This is the foundation for all large joint movement study of the body as developed by Mukinda Stiles. Through the teaching of JFS, it gives young athletes physical and mental benefits, and helps provide for safer and healthier movement in their athletics. Ann will share additional resources to help your students use these techniques and derive the benefits beyond sports.
Your Instructor
Kristen Santos, BS, M. Ed, RYT 200, RCYT, YACEP, started to practice yoga as a way of healing from breast cancer. Because she found Yoga so beneficial, she wanted to bring the practice to her students. Kristen has been teaching Physical Education in Massachusetts Public Schools since 1998. She took her first ChildLight children’s training in 2017. During the summer of 2020, Kristen completed the first live online 200 Hour (RYT) training that Childlight offered. Returning to school in September of 2020 made her even more passionate about bringing Yoga into the PE Curriculum. She is now a published author of The Yoga Curriculum for Physical Education K-5 and The Yoga Curriculum for Physical Education 6-8. Kristen travels the country presenting “How to Implement Yoga into the Physical Education Curriculum” at SHAPE and AHPERD Conferences. When she is not spreading yoga, Kristen enjoys spending time with her family and friends.