Katherine Priore was a stressed out school teacher when she heeded an instructor pal’s advice to bring yoga into her junior high, and the results have been most impressive. You can hear from KIPP students exposed to her Headstand program and the YogaEd phys ed curriculum in Jacob Klein’s video below about the effects that practicing yoga poses has had on their classroom concentration. But any admiration need not end there: a shopping event at Hello in Pacific Heights starting tonight at 6 PM will benefit the non-profit’s local work “providing access to yoga in the place where these students spend the most time: school.”
[...] Dance On will benefit Headstand.org, an organization that brings yoga into Bay Area schools (per previous coverage of the non-profit, it looks to “provide access to yoga in the place where these students spend [...]
[...] Headstand, a group started by local educator Katherine Priore that partners with classrooms and studios to prevent childhood obesity. Lower stress and higher grades are the goals of @headstandyoga’s curriculum for kids, and I’m excited for their next local presentation of their work. [...]