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We train, support, and empower yoga teachers, educators and parents to bring the benefits of yoga to Irina holds a Master’s degree in Education. Ed.

We train, support, and empower yoga teachers, educators and parents in their work of bringing the benefits of yoga to children. The Yoga Break for Children™ Teacher Training, 7-week Online Training, workshops, courses and recourses will equip you to do effective yoga practices with children and teach them essential self-regulation skills for a healthy and successful life. About Irina Kazakevic:

Irina has been exploring the art and science of yoga and healthy living for over 20 years. Combining her knowledge of Hatha Yoga and Ayurveda, over 10 years of meditation practice as well as two decades of teaching elementary school experience, she developed the Yoga Break for Children program and training. She is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT) as well as a Registered Children’s Yoga Teacher (RCYT) and a Yoga Alliance Cont. Provider (YACEP). Since 2008, Irina has conducted professional development workshops and Summer Institutes for teachers in Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board and private schools in Ontario. She taught workshops on children’s yoga to Ontario English Catholic Teacher Association (OECTA) and Association of Physical Educators of Quebec (APEQ). Irina led a session on How to Teach Yoga to Children at the Toronto Yoga Festival. Irina teachers adult and children yoga classes in her Mississauga Well-Being Yoga studio and other studios across GTA.

09/22/2025

💚30% OFF kids yoga lesson plan BE KIND!

What are you teaching in your kids yoga classes at the beginning of school?

I begin with kindness. We all would like to see our kids being kind to themselves and the people around them.

In September, kids go back to school and meet new people. It’s an exciting time for them to make new friends and practice being kind, accepting, patient and inclusive.

The BE KIND Kids Yoga Unit is filled with a partner yoga sequence, a breathing technique, kindness meditation, a game and a fun art activity to promote kindness and respect towards ourselves and others.

The Be Kind unit is a great resource to have when teaching anti-bullying in schools, camps or yoga classes. The unit includes 4 yoga lesson plans, 4 student handouts, a unit outline and music suggestions.

Link in my bio or got to http://yogabreakforchildren.com/kids-yoga-unit/

08/14/2024

🎉It's back to school time!🎉
Yoga is a great practice for kids, teachers and parents! You can practice with Children’s yoga cards in school, at home or anywhere! Bright large phots of real kids will help with the form of the poses and simple instructions will insure you’re doing it correctly. All the practices include breathing exercises and meditations!
54 cards organized into 7 practices will give many hours of healthy activities and fun!
Get yours on Amazon and save with a coupon!
Links are in today’s stories or bio!
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01/25/2024

🎉My Children’s Yoga Cards are now serving more than 50,000 families and educators around the world!!!🎉😀

Looking for a fun and healthy gift?! They are perfect for kids, families, teachers and anyone who likes to do yoga with kids!🔥😍
Moms and teachers are living comments and sending me emails saying how easy and convenient it is to use the cards, how durable they are and how much kids and adults love them. I can’t express how glad I am to hear that!!! 💕💕💕

I’m so honoured to provide this much needed practice, especially now when kids mental and emotional health is a priority! 🙏💜
Practicing yoga at home is easy! Doing it with kids is fun! And as a result, you spend a quality time with your kids and teach them a practice that will provide life-time benefits!😍👍💕
Teachers are using my Children’s Yoga Cards in their remote teaching as mental well-being tools, Gym, Health and Daily physical activity. 🤸‍♂️🧘‍♂️💜

Write YES in the comments under this post if you’re already using them!

Tell me what you like about them!💥❤️

If you’re looking for kids yoga cards, Ii’s easy to order Children’s Yaga Cards! They are available on 🇺🇸 and 🇨🇦 Amazon. Shipping is around the globe. You will find the links in my bio.😀
When you get your box, share your experience with and I’ll share it with our community!
Stay healthy, do yoga!!! ❤️❤️❤️

01/09/2024

😍Hey! It’s a new year and I thought I’ll introduce myself for all the new people!

💃My name’s Irina Kazakevic, but this year, I’m going by Fia. Yep, that’s my nickname!

I’ve been living in Canada for over 30 years, more than half my life. Have I fully adapted? Kinda, though I still enjoy conversing in my native Russian and connecting with folks who share similar outlooks on life.

I see teaching as my calling in life. Started out teaching dance and music back in my pedagogical college days. Then transitioned to piano and music theory lessons. Currently, I’m still at it, teaching as a Grade 4 teacher in a middle school.

🧘‍♀️I’ve been passionate about yoga since my university days. In 1993, while expecting my eldest daughter, I began practicing on my own. Since then, yoga has been a constant in my life, only growing more meaningful.

I completed my first yoga training and became a certified RYT 200 yoga teacher in Canada in 2007. Same year, got my RCYT certification for teaching kids’ yoga at the Kripalu Yoga Center in the US.

🤸‍♂️I opened a company called Well-Being Yoga and from then on, I’ve been a yoga and well-being advocate, teaching classes, conducting workshops, offering teacher training and professional development within my school system. I also took part in professional conferences, and taught yoga to both kids and adults at school and my home studio in Mississauga.

In 2009, I furthered my knowledge, becoming an Ayurveda Yoga specialist at the Himalayan Yoga Institute in Pennsylvania, USA.

🔥2014 marked the start of my second yoga teacher training with Rod Stryker, Para Yoga in the US. Completing 11 Yoga Master Training courses, I gained accreditation as a Yoga Alliance E-RYT 500 instructor.

In 2015, I trained as a facilitator in The Four Desires method, focusing on Sankalpa and Dharma (intentions and life purpose).

❤️My work in kids’ yoga led me to establish the Yoga Break for Children school in 2015. That journey included creating an online course, teacher training for kids’ yoga, and publishing Kids Yoga Units, a collection of 52 yoga lesson plans for children.

Continue to read in 🎡 (flip the post pic)🙏❤️

01/02/2024

🌟Happy New Year, my Friends!🌟

On January the 1st, I woke up feeling like I have a gift 🎁 in front of me – another year of life, brand new, clean, like a untouched canvas for an artist or a blank sheet of paper for a writer. 🎨

What will we create? What mark will we leave? How will we change ourselves? How will we love our dear ones? What will we contribute to this vast, untouched space called the New Year⁉️

I'm excited! 💃 This is not just another morning! Some might say, what has really changed? Well, everything!!! 🔥🔥🔥 We have a new chance to make a difference! We always have it, but today, it's emphasized, focused! Don't miss it, don't let it slip away! ❤️

May positivity, energy, love, and gratitude fill you up! This is the soil from which everything else grows, everything we wish for! 🌱

Today, get excited in a good way, get inspired, and start writing on your new, clean sheet as creators. ✍️ Because we are creators!!! Never forget that! ✨✨✨

Sending hugs and kisses to all! Here's to new beginnings! 🎉💃🔥🌟

Irina Kazakevic (Fia)

12/13/2023

🎉30% OFF!
The Giving Tree - Kids Yoga Unit

What is giving without expecting anything in return? Do kids understand it? What is loving without a reason?

I know these are big questions! But don’t think that these concepts are beyond kids understanding. Try to explore it with them and you will be surprised!

The Giving Tree book is one of my favourites! Open the conversation with your kids by reading this amazing book and follow up with the kids yoga unit.

The Giving Tree kids yoga unit is all about helping kids be giving, generous and loving. 4 lesson plans, activity pages, music and art!

Get this unit on its own or purchase a Virtue Bundle that includes this unit, Be Kind and Be Thankful kids yoga units! 12 lesson plans in total!

Now 30% OFF!

12/05/2023

🎉My Children’s Yoga Cards are now serving more than 50,000 families and educators around the world!!!🎉😀

Looking for a fun and healthy Christmas gift?! They are perfect for kids, families, teachers and anyone who likes to do yoga with kids!🔥😍
Moms and teachers are living comments and sending me emails saying how easy and convenient it is to use the cards, how durable they are and how much kids and adults love them. I can’t express how glad I am to hear that!!! 💕💕💕

I’m so honoured to provide this much needed practice, especially now when kids mental and emotional health is a priority! 🙏💜
Practicing yoga at home is easy! Doing it with kids is fun! And as a result, you spend a quality time with your kids and teach them a practice that will provide life-time benefits!😍👍💕
Teachers are using my Children’s Yoga Cards in their remote teaching as mental well-being tools, Gym, Health and Daily physical activity. 🤸‍♂️🧘‍♂️💜

Write YES in the comments under this post if you’re already using them!

Tell me what you like about them!💥❤️

If you're looking for kids yoga cards, Ii’s easy to order Children’s Yaga Cards! They are available on 🇺🇸 and 🇨🇦 Amazon. Shipping is around the globe. You will find the links in my bio.😀
When you get your box, share your experience with and I’ll share it with our community!
Stay healthy, do yoga!!! ❤️❤️❤️

11/16/2023

The perfect Kids Yoga Unit for Thanksgiving: BE THANKFUL 🙏⁠
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Through the unit (which includes a yoga pose sequence, breathing, visualization, mandala activity & Thankful Circle yoga game), children learn about what it means to be thankful and deepen their appreciation of all the blessings they experience in their lives. ⁠
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The unit includes: ⁠
👉 4 yoga lesson plans⁠
👉 4 student handouts⁠
👉 unit outline⁠
👉 music suggestions⁠
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Get the Be Thankful Kids Yoga Unit and use it with your students or kids this Thanksgiving (or any time you want to explore gratitude & thankfulness as a theme!) - link in bio! 🔗⁠
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08/23/2023

☀️ It’s getting to the end of summer and we are already thinking about going back to school.

As a teacher I am definitely preparing mentally and emotionally! As a parent not so much, since my kids are grown up ans this pic is almost 20 years old.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 As I’m looking at it, I’m remembering how, as a family, we did yoga on the lake almost every summer. It was fun and so beneficial for all of us!

Did you do yoga outside with your kids this summer! If not, there is still time, since we still have a few weeks of warm weather ahead of us!

🌳🌊☀️I wrote a post about doing yoga outside on my personal account .yoga.kula

🤸‍♂️ It’s the one with a pic where I’m in headstand on the dock (show off! 🤣)

😍 I hope the tips in that post are helpful for your family or students!

And let me know in the comments what is your favourite place to do yoga outside?🙏❤️

12/31/2022

🎉❤️ "Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.” 👏❤️

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do you look back at your year and do some kind of review? I did it for many years!

Well, I tried this year to do it too… However, I was not able to!

I asked myself a question, “What did I do in 2022?” And my spontaneous answer was — LIVING!

Surprisingly, it was enough for me!

Living, feeling, thinking, loving, connecting… always changing…

Changing so much and so rapidly that what I was doing and putting out in the world was becoming not relevant and outdated very quickly.

At some point, I felt that I needed just to stop and get still to figure out a few important things:

— Who am I becoming?
— Where am I moving?
— How will I be communicating?
— What do I have to offer now?

Sounds familiar? I know many of my friends and like-minded people in the same space. I’d say doing a lot of self-exploration, self-discovery and inner transformative work.

That was 2022 for me — change! The only constant this year was — impermanence!

2023 will be a year of coming out for many. We’ll see people taking new directions in life, offering new things and doing unexpected!

Is it true for you?

As for me? I don’t know yet! And believe it or not, I love it — not knowing for the first time in my life!

Tomorrow, I’m going on a trip ( possibly life-changing, or not😁) I guess, I’ll let you know later…

Happy New Year, my friends! ❤️🎉
Keep changing and evolving! There’s no limit!🙏❤️❤️❤️

BTW, what words or phrases would you choose to describe your 2022 and if you already know, your 2023!

Mine are:
2022 — Change
2023 — New Beginnings

12/27/2022

Dear, friends! This holiday week, I hope you’ll find time for relaxing yoga and meditation. Self-care is still at the top of my priorities in 2023! What about you? 😍🙏

12/25/2022

Merry Christmas, my friends! 🙏❤️🎄

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We train, support, and empower yoga teachers, educators and parents to bring the benefits of yoga to children. The Yoga Break for Children™ 95-hour Teacher Training and RCYT Certification, 7-week Online Training, workshops, courses and resources will equip you to do effective yoga practices with children and teach them essential self-regulation skills for a healthy and successful life. Our resources and products such as Teachers Manuals, Yoga Cards, Posters, and Kids Yoga Units are used by school and yoga teachers, ECEs, therapists, counsellors and parents all over the world. Join the Yoga Break for Children team of dedicated teachers and make a difference in children’s lives one yoga class at a time! About Irina Kazakevic, the founder of Yoga Break for Children: Irina has been exploring the art and science of yoga and healthy living for over 20 years. Combining her knowledge of Hatha Yoga and Ayurveda, over 15 years of meditation practice as well as two decades of teaching elementary school experience, she developed the Yoga Break for Children program and training. Irina holds a Master’s degree in Education. She is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT) as well as a Registered Children’s Yoga Teacher (RCYT) and a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP). Since 2007, Irina has conducted professional development training, summer institutes, workshops and presentations for teachers in Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board, private schools and various youth organizations across Ontario. She is a regular presenter with the Ontario English Catholic Teacher Association (OECTA), Ontario Physical and Health Education Assossiation (OPHEA), Association of Physical Educators of Quebec (APEQ) and Canadian Personal Trainer Network (CPTN).