Week 1: June 11—June 15   [ CLOSED ] Week 2: June 18—22   [ CLOSED ] Week 3: June 25—29   [ CLOSED ] Week 4: July 2—6   [ CLOSED ] Week 5: July 30—Aug 4   [ CLOSED ] Week 6: Aug 6—10   [ FULL ] Week 7: Aug 13—17   [ FULL ]

Monday — Friday 9 a.m. — 3 p.m. Ages 5 — 12 $300/week Camp Brochure (pdf)

A Typical Day at Budding Yogis Camp:
· Gathering activities
· Craft activity
· Yoga
· Work on challenge pose for the week (e.g. handstand)
· Journaling
· Relaxation
· Lunch at Chevy Chase Park
· Yoga Games
· Yoga Class
· Camp Songs
· Closing Activities

What We Will Learn:
Yoga asanas (poses)
Yoga games
Mindfulness and self-calming techniques
Breathing practices
Fun songs

We will create a yoga journal with pictures of campers in each pose that we learn. By the end of the week, campers will have a practice journal to help them remember how to practice yoga at home. Campers who come to multiple weeks, will learn and journal progressively more challenging poses each week.

One very unique aspect of Budding Yogis camp, is the atmosphere of trust and relaxation that is created throughout each week. Because we are completely non-competitive, work in small groups and large groups, and spend time relaxing together, campers develop a friendship and trust bond with each other that is unlike friendships which develop in more competitive environments. It is a rare chance for kids to spend a week or more playing like the child that they are:

FRESH - maintaining your child’s natural freshness
FUN – playful, never competitive
HEALTHY – energizing, stretching, and moving
RELAXING – bringing ease and peace back to your child

Yoga is a great way for kids to get connected with their bodies. Yoga stretches kids' bodies and minds, and boosts their confidence.

It can help bring active minds into union with active bodies, and can help kids learn to calm both. Kids feel empowered by their ability to learn new poses, stretch into new positions, and stabilize their minds in a non-competitive environment.

Yoga can build stronger bodies, help stretch athletes' muscles, and make kids more limber. It can teach kids new ways to relax and calm themselves when they feel stressed (which they often do in today's world.)

The Budding Yogis philosophy is to teach yoga to kids and teens in a way that, stretches their imaginations, offers them non-competitive opportunities to play, and teaches kids and teenages how to relax. At Budding Yogis we are nurturing kids and teens so that they can develop to their fullest physical and mental health and well-being.