The Benefits of Yo Re Mi (+ Printable Info Sheet)
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Yo Re Mi is a children’s enrichment program that combines music with yoga to enhance learning, encourage creativity, and support young children’s developmental milestones.
While the benefits of Yo Re Mi’s unique program are plentiful, here are a few that help illustrate our core mission:
1. Yo Re Mi Enhances Learning + Makes it FUN
We help make learning fun and accessible! Yo Re Mi’s curriculum-based student enrichment program is fueled by music and yoga, which triggers sensory integration and complex cognitive development.
Whether through onsite sessions or educational yoga adventures on our app, homeschoolers and educators enjoy using our videos and classes to supplement their lesson plans. Teaching the Water Cycle, for instance, is made easy through musical yoga and mindfulness activities.
Here are free Water Cycles resources you can try yourself:
Water Cycle curriculum activities: discuss evaporation, condensation, precipitation and collection
Water themed musical yoga activities — while staying dry!
2. Helps Improve Behavior + Develop Self-Regulation
It is our mission to help you achieve a calm, connected classroom! Using effective emotional regulation techniques and calming strategies, we help children release their “wiggles”, gain focus, and find calm.
By building social-emotional learning (SEL), children better learn how to identify big feelings, build social and teamwork skills, and improve focus and concentration.
Here are resources you can Learn in a Yo Re Mi class:
Effective calming exercises for children
3. Builds Confidence in Children
One of the ways we help support happy, healthy children is by creating a safe environment where kids feel their ideas are heard and valued. Yo Re Mi is all about building confidence in each child, so you can expect our enrichment program to reflect that!
Our tools for building confidence through music, yoga and mindfulness:
Positive affirmations for a healthy inner dialogue
4. Fosters Imagination and Creativity
Yo Re Mi engages children’s innate creativity and encourages learning through exploration and discovery. We are also aligned with the NYC Department of Education’s Blueprint for the Arts (music).
From storytelling to letting them take the lead, we incorporate music, movement and props to honor each child’s creativity and imagination in a non-competitive environment.
Resources for supporting creativity and imagination:
Amazing ideas for celebrating your child’s individuality
Ways music help kids thrive academically
5. Provides an Outlet for Stress Relief
Studies show that mindful exercises for stress and anxiety relief can contribute to improved academic and test performance. When we surveyed NYS certified teachers, 96% of them felt Yo Re Mi helps improve children's physical and emotional well-being.
Try some of our Proven exercises:
Yoga poses for stress relief and anxiety
Breathing exercises for kids that actually WORK!
Mindful coloring with printable yoga coloring pages
6. Promotes Healthy Physical Development
Yo Re Mi aligns with NYS Learning Standards for Physical Education. As educators, musicians, yoga teachers and parents, we recognize how important physical exercise is — especially for growing children.
Sadly, “less than one-quarter (24%) of children 6 to 17 years of age participate in 60 minutes of physical activity every day” despite it being the recommendation from the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion’s (ODPHP) Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans (source: CDC).
We aim to make physical activity more easily accessible for children through fun movement and yoga activities.
our exercises and movement sequences help:
build strength, flexibility and balance
develop fine and gross motor skills, and physical coordination
foster breath and body awareness
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WANT TO LEARN MORE?
Here are a few ways to dive in and learn more about the benefits of our unique music and yoga education classes.
Printable Info Sheet: The Benefits of Yo Re Mi (1 page)
We commissioned this information sheet to help explain the benefits of our child enrichment program.
If you are a parent, educator or childcare professional and think Yo Re Mi would be a great program to integrate into your child’s classes/sessions, this sheet is helpful “flyer” to pass along to an administrator, head teacher, or supervisor to kickstart a conversation.
If you want to learn more about how Yo Re Mi might work for you, let’s chat: contact us.
Professional Development Workshops or Yoga Training
To learn more about our proven strategies and techniques, or to improve your own yoga and mindfulness practice (or that of your team and staff), you may be interested in our educator workshops or children’s yoga trainings.
You can review course options and descriptions here.
Frequently Asked Questions About Yo Re Mi
Thanks to Yo Re Mi’s fusion of music, yoga and mindfulness, we receive a lot of questions about the unique program and how it can fit in your children’s daily life.
We listened to the most frequently asked questions about Yo Re Mi and created a dedicated FAQ page to help answer those questions.
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