Yoga 4 Teens

✨ Testimonial Tuesday Blessings!

“I always look forward to yoga day. It’s so relaxing!” ~they/them age 14

Happy Spectacular SEPTEMBER Blessings! Join me for Sound Healing Events and My Body My Power Tween Workshop.

🧡 Friendly Reminder…just be your own unique beautiful self!

Affirmations ~ Say 3 Times:
•I Am Unique
•I Am Beautiful
•I Am Amazing

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🕉️ Thankful Thursday Blessings!

❇️ You Are Strong!

Reminder to stay kind in your mind and use positive language and positive affirmations to support yourself, your friends and your community!

🌎 https://www.kristenrubis.com/camps

💜 Thankful Thursday Blessings

🤩 We had an amazing first day of our My Body My Power Week-Long Camp for Teens!

🫶 Today was Self-Expression Day and we enjoyed a lovely day expressing through movement, words, art, kindness and writing.

COMMUNITY EDUCATORS: Starr Smythe and Carmen Davis

🔺Morning Movement with Starr Smythe: Starr will lead camp participants through a yoga and mindfulness practice. The focal point of this practice will be allowing mindful movement and meditation to be a tool for activating our self-expression.

🔺Afternoon Guest Speaker with Carmen Davis: Soul Collage™ uses Collage as an insight into oneself. This process opens doors of self-acceptance, self-acknowledgment, and hidden motivations. Learn to use collage to bring out your inner beauty.

🙌 Feedback and Reflections:
• I loved the yoga stretches.
• It was so great to make new friends.
• I liked the breaks to regroup.
• I felt very safe here. Thanks for creating a safe environment. I attended a different camp last year and I didn’t feel safe. Thank you so much for creating this safe place for us.
• I loved doing the Soul Collage.
• I like how free flowing the day felt.
• This camp helped me answer questions I didn’t know I had.
• Today helped me to understand more of what’s going on inside me.
• The yoga was very relaxing.
• I liked how safe and welcomed I felt.

THANK YOU OLYMPIA‼️

🌎 https://www.kristenrubis.com/camps

🎶 Community Share Sunday!

The Bridge Music Project is a Thurston County-based 501(c)3 Nonprofit Organization which teaches youth how music and songwriting can be used as tools to deal with life's challenges.

OUR MISSION: Through music, mentorship, and community, The Bridge equips youth with tools for self-expression and understanding that they will carry with them for the rest of their lives.

OUR VISION: Our Vision is to create a world where every youth is free to be their true, uncompromising self; A world where through music and self-understanding, young people can overcome any trauma to be the future leaders of tomorrow.

🎶 https://www.bridgemusicproject.org/

🎉 PS: GO BOBBY‼️

💜 Saturday Self Care Blessings!

My Body My Power Week-Long Camp for Teens‼️

🔹Aug 12: Self-Expression Day
Starr Smythe: Starr will lead camp participants through a yoga and mindfulness practice. The focal point of this practice will be allowing mindful movement and meditation to be a tool for activating our self-expression.
Carmen Davis: Soul Collage™ uses Collage as an insight into oneself. This process opens doors of self-acceptance, self-acknowledgment, and hidden motivations. Learn to use collage to bring out your inner beauty.

🔹Aug 13: Self-Empowerment Day:
Nancy Hull: I am a 7th Degree Black Belt in Taekwon Do, having taught classes in traditional Taekwon Do and self-defense for over 30 years. Our Self-Empowerment class will include discussions about awareness, power, safety, and hands-on basic self-defense techniques.
Linda Terry: This is a fun interactive "brain game" session that will help you learn more about how you can best use YOUR brain strength to remember more, to focus longer, and to think clearer.

🔹Aug 14: Self-Care Day:
Sally Anvari: Dance can be a way to care for our miraculous and creative bodies. Campers will play with the dance idea of PLACWE while connecting with others and finding flow and joy in movement.
Teasha McCallum: Together in this class, we will explore self-care and expression through plant relationship and plant preparation. We will learn how to create a deeper relationship with ourselves through nature by observing, touching, smelling, and test-tasting plants and tapping into our intuition. We will begin a nature journal by doing some writing and drawings of our thoughts around each plant. We will set intentions while crafting our unique bathing salt from the plants each person picks.

🔹Aug 15: Self-Love Day
Cecily Schmidt: Through simple breathing techniques, mindfulness practices, and heart-opening yoga postures, we will cultivate joy and tenderness to tap into what we need from ourselves.
Allison Imel: Allison will offer a lecture "Self-Care Basics for Teens" and will make an organic snack with the participants.

🔹Aug 16: Self-Awareness Day
Kristen Rubis: We will share in breath work and meditation with sound healing chimes, play a fun Yoga Game & write Kindness Notes to each other for our final day.
Kristen Rubis: We will discuss the importance and benefits of self-awareness and for our Special Art Project, the participants will make their own, unique Positive Affirmation Art!

🌎 https://www.kristenrubis.com/camps

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🎉 Still time to help me CELEBRATE‼️ 🥳 Thank You for supporting My Body My Power for my BIRTHDAY‼️

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Happy AUGUST Blessings! Help me celebrate my Birthday by making a DONATION today!

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🌈 Community Share Sunday!

YWCA of Olympia is a non-profit, multi-service organization that has served girls, womxn and families since 1945. Today, YWCA Olympia is focused on our mission of eliminating racism and sexism to advance the social, political, and economic status of all womxn and girls. All of our activities place the leadership and wisdom of Womxn of Color at the center. We do this while also seeking to engage people of all genders, races, classes and abilities in the collective work of the YWCA’s vision: All People are valued, live free from oppression, and thrive in a just society. Our core strategies that anchor all program spaces and support ongoing organizational development are community building, education, and participant-led advocacy.

🌎 https://www.ywcaofolympia.org/what-were-doing/youth-programs/

🤩 Check out our full list of resources: https://www.kristenrubis.com/resources

🌲 Day 3 of our KIDS YOGA ADVENTURE Camp was amazing‼️

🙌 We were grateful it was only 84 degrees and didn’t need to take so many shade breaks.

🧘‍♂️ Rachel led more Forest Yoga and the kids really liked being Warriors in the Woods. 🌲

🩵 The theme of the day was “I Am Love” and in our Talking Circles the youth expressed the importance of self-love. They shared that if we love ourselves first then we can love our friends and family even better. Another expresses that when we focus on the good then that increases our gratitude and leads to more love. YES‼️

🫧 The day was filled with bubbles, art, ice breakers, name games, forest yoga, walks in the woods, organic snacks and lots of fun!

🫶 Feedback from Youth:
• I loved playing with bubbles!
• Sitting by the fountain was very relaxing.
• The best part of camp isplaying with my friends.
• Making the art project was really fun!

🙏 Thanks Olympia, Rachel, Squaxin Park, Oly Parks and the Universe!

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🥳 Day 2 of our KIDS YOGA ADVENTURE CAMP was fabulous!

🥵 Even in the heat we managed to meditate, play, walk in the woods, make a nature art collage, share about gratitude in our talking circles and had a lot of fun.

🌲 We spent a longer time in the forest today because it was so hot and Rachel lead many yoga sessions, pausing in the trees to stretch, ground and connect to our breath.

🙌 Feedback from Yoga Kids:
•I liked meditating in the shade.
•I loved making our nature art.
•I really liked playing the Anyone Who game.
•My favorite part of camp was snack time.
•I’m grateful I made a new friend!

🙏 Thanks Rachel, Squaxin Park, Olympia Families and Oly Parks & Rec!

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🕉️ We had such an AWESOME first day of our Kids Yoga Adventure Camp in the Rose Garden at Squaxin Park‼️

🌲 Some Feedback from Kids:
•Walking in the woods was the best!
• I loved the meditation.
•I really liked making our name tags.
• Even though it was hot, the yoga poses were fun.
•I liked our different snack times.
•I loved everything!
•Going for a walk in the forest was my favorite part of camp.

🌈 Thanks Olympia‼️

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🕉️ Thank You Rachel for inviting me to Co-Lead a Week-Long Camp for fifteen 6-8 year olds at Squaxin Park. I am deeply grateful for our conscious, compassionate, and caring collaboration!

“Adventure Kids Yoga Camp”

🙌 Join Play PNW Yoga for outdoor fun, while learning to cultivate a deeper sense of self-worth as we explore the benefits of breath work and postures guided in a way that brings self exploration and allows for creative movement.

🧘‍♀️ During our time we will make space for positive self talk, dive into ways to nourishing our bodies and hold space for connection with nature.

🌲 While at camp there will be guided relaxation along with options for song, dance, nature walks, crafts and understanding importance of community as well as individuality.

🧘‍♂️ Students will have the opportunity to feel grounded and supported by others as well as how to feel this through their own identity. Most of all we will have fun growing in a safe space!

🙏 Community Power Rocks‼️

🌎 Contact me to learn more about my curriculum and creating a peaceful partnership: KristenRubis.com

✨ Testimonial Tuesday Blessings!

“I always look forward to yoga day. It’s so relaxing!” ~they/them age 14

🎉 Happy BDAY Month to Me‼️

🫶 Please help me celebrate by making a donation to my annual SCHOLARSHIP Campaign for my Empowerment Programs through My Body My Power.

🤸🏼‍♀️ This summer I’m hosting ONE My Body My Power Week-Long Camp for Teens, August 12-16. This campaign will support youth attending my camps for FREE!

🙏 Thank You Friends‼️

Donate to Help Kristen Ignite Change with MY BODY MY POWER, organized by Kristen Rubis Hi Friends, My name is Kristen and I am hosting a Youth Sponsorship… Kristen Rubis needs your support for Help Kristen Ignite Change with MY BODY MY POWER

Happy JULY Blessings! Join us for My Body My Power and Sound Healing!

🌈 Community Share Sunday!

!! is a nonprofit organization founded in 1989 to serve youth and families in the South Sound with a mission to advance the health and well-being of all young people. We offer direct service youth programs, mobilize communities through coalitions, advocate for healthier laws, norms and systems and promote health through community and individual education.

🔹 TOGETHER! Mission:
TOGETHER! aduances the health and wellbeing of all young people.

🔸 TOGETHER! Vision:
All young people are supported, healthy, safe, and valued.

🔹 TOGETHER Core Values:
Equity. All people deserve social, health, and educational equity. Community. We partner with families, schools, and the community to collaboratively address root causes to community problems. Systems Change. We lead and support change across sectors to serve the
needs of the whole child.

🙌 https://thurstontogether.org/Who-We-Are/Mission-Vision

🌎 Full TEEN Resource List: https://www.kristenrubis.com/resources.html