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The Company
ChildLight Yoga was founded to encourage an early practice of yoga and relaxation, providing children with a
foundation for life-long wellness - body, mind and spirit. Our company provides numerous yoga programs for babies, toddlers, families and children, utilizing fun and innovative 'yoga play' techniques, while providing take-home tools for managing stress and anxiety. Our mission is to spread the amazing gifts of yoga to all children everywhere - through yoga classes, camps, school enrichment programs, children's yoga teacher trainings and more.
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About Lisa Flynn
Several years ago new mother and long-time yoga practitioner, Lisa Flynn, noticed
that when her toddlers would join her morning yoga practice, it was not only fun
and natural for them, but seemed to improve their focus and mood as well.
While researching yoga for babies, toddlers and older children, she quickly
realized that the benefits of yoga can be enjoyed by people of all ages,
3 weeks old to 100+. She went on to search her local area for children's
yoga classes and came up empty-handed. The lightbulb went off. She
attended the first of many related trainings in 2002 and immediately
began teaching 10-15 classes per week. ChildLight Yoga was officially
founded in 2005.
Though she has little interest in teaching yoga to adults ("they're not as
much fun!"), Lisa, a 200 hr. RYT, continues her personal study of yoga
and yoga philosophy with Julie Rost of the YogaLife Institute as she works
towards earning a 500 hour adult yoga certification. In addition, she has
earned over 200 hours of training in yoga for children. She holds an
advanced-level certification from Color Me Yoga for Children® and is certified
as an Itsy Bitsy Yoga® Facilitator, a YogaEd.™ Instructor and Circus Yoga
Teacher. She has also studied with Craig Hanauer of Every Kids Yoga, focusing
on children with special needs. As a Level II Reiki Practitioner, Lisa incorporates
her knowledge of chakras, energy centers in the body, in her work with children
and families.
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Developed and facilitated by Lisa Flynn, the ChildLight Yoga Teacher Training and
Yoga 4 Classrooms™ programs are popular, effective opportunities for other parents, teachers and yoga therapists to
learn to share yoga with children. Lisa trains and speaks at many schools, wellness conventions, and yoga centers
around the Northeastern United States.
With a B.A. in Communication, Lisa spent over 10 years working as an Advertising Executive and Marketing Director in
Atlanta and Chicago and Business Manager in Portsmouth, NH. She is extremely grateful to be able to combine the
knowledge gained from her past work experience with her love of yoga and children.
Most importantly, Lisa is Mom and wife in a most beautiful and busy family. Admittedly, work, her children's activities,
and even just keeping the house clean can become stressful at times. She uses yoga, meditation, and power of
positive thought to bring balance into her life. Her intention is to teach her young students to do the same, providing
them with tools they can use for a lifetime of health and wellness.
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With Gratitude...
Enormous amounts of gratitude to Carrie Tyler, Founder/Director of Dover Yoga Studio and Rasamaya Yoga, mentor
and friend, for believing in, and seeing through, the vision of opening her beautiful studio to yoga for babies, tots, kids,
teens and moms-to-be, providing a special place to share the joy of yoga with children and families!
Thanks to Marsha Metzger, Founder of The Tiniest Acorn, and Creator of the Color Me Yoga for Children® training
program, for seeing my light and giving me the tools to bring it out in my work with children.
Another thank you to Helen Garabedian, Founder of Itsy Bitsy Yoga®, and Author of Itsy Bitsy Yoga: Poses to Help
your Baby Sleep Better, Digest Easier and Grow Stronger, for sharing with me her amazing and inspiring work with
babies, tots, preschoolers and their families.
I am eternally grateful to Eeve B. Crowe, shamanic practitioner, metaphysician, Reiki Master and friend, for her gentle
guidance on this path to introduce children to yoga - and for bestowing upon me the healing power of Reiki.
To Julie Rost, YogaLife teacher, mentor and friend, whose teachings, listening and wise words have transformed me
personally, and added depth to my work.
A loving thank you to my children, Brooke and Jack, for being my inspiration, and my husband, John, my Mom, and
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And, to all of my students...you are, by far, the most inspirational teachers of all.
Parents, thank you for sharing them all with me!
Namaste.
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