About YoGo4Kids

YoGo4Kids offers during and after school yoga classes for children, tweens and teens in the San Francisco East Bay. A heart-centered theme is integrated throughout yoga sequences, spirited fitness routines to music, breath-work, games and a time for rest and relaxation. Classes are active, age-appropriate and fitting for schools. We work with you regarding age-groups, days/times and pricing.

  • Yoga sequences and lively physical fitness activities assist in increasing balance, muscular strength & endurance and flexibility.

  • Participants learn to perform many kid-friendly yoga postures as well as partner and challenge poses.

  • Breath-work is an integral part of practicing yoga. Breathing techniques have many names such as Breath of Joy, Ocean breath, Bunny breath, Counting breath. The breath is the key to both focusing and relaxing.

  • Improvement in motor skills, physical fitness, personal awareness and social skills is assured.

  • Classes conclude with a resting posture and a wrap-up where participants have the opportunity to share how they can put the heart-centered theme into use outside of yoga class.

 Founder Heather Thornton's Journey To Yoga

I spent 20+ fun-filled years teaching physical education to elementary school children. I was also a distance runner and an active mom of two (now adult) children. After spending so much time on my feet I succumbed to plantar fasciitis. Something had to change, so I took a yoga class. Yoga was different than anything I had ever done before. The idea of breath preceding movement was foreign to me. As a person who believed the primary way to fitness was an extended increased heart rate, resting in a posture was a mental  and physical challenge. Within a few months of practicing yoga, however, I knew I had altered my life and fitness routine forever. ...and not surprising, my plantar fasciitis healed itself!

Within six months of starting yoga, I enrolled in an immersion program at YogaKula in Berkeley, California. I became a certified Anusara Elements instructor (CYT-200) in the summer of 2016. I could not wait to share all I had gleaned from teacher-training with the kids back in the Moraga School District, where I taught physical education. The kids seemed to glom on to it. Teaching yoga to kids was a natural fit. YoGo4Kids was born!

My focus now is on sharing the amazing gift of yoga with kids of all ages and abilities in the North Tahoe area. I find complete joy engaging kids (teens & adults too) and training them into living healthy lifestyles through my YoGo4Kids classes .

♥Heather Thornton, Founder YoGo4Kids

...great will be your child's peace! Isaiah 54:13