Amara Kids Programs

Saturday Morning Kids Art & Yoga Classes and Summer Camp

2025 Kids Art & Yoga Camp with Kathryn and Olivia

Sign up open online beginning in January 2025

Our kids programs at Amara are designed and taught by studio co-founder Kathryn Fitzgerald.  Scroll down for a schedule of kids programs and to sign up.

Kids Camp at Amara will be a blend of art and yoga in a fun and relaxed environment. Activities will be open–ended and provide an opportunity for the kids to feel empowered and be themselves. Kids will learn basic yoga elements through focused breathing, play, storytelling, balance, meditation, and creative visualization.

We want the kids to have a stress free, magical, safe environment where they can grow and flourish. Each week will have a theme that will inspire exploration through art making activities using all kinds of materials and will be loosely directed by the teachers so kids can have ownership of their own creative process. Projects will include elements of drawing, painting, sculpture, knitting, weaving, sewing and mutimedia design and construction. Children will be introduced to the practice of long term art projects that need to be accomplished in stages and take many days to complete.

The mornings are more structured with opening arts and crafts for kids to choose to work with, followed by a yoga class. The yoga class will include breath work, meditation, poses, chanting, storytelling and lots of games ending with creative visualization and savasana - all presented in a playful and collaborative manner. Following the yoga class will be free time outside and time to work on bigger art projects related to the weeks theme. Afternoons are less structured with time for kids to self direct their own art making, an option for a more advanced yoga class, or quiet time and play outside.

Note: Kids programs are non-refundable and non-transferable, and expire at the end of the session.

Kids teacher Kathryn Fitzgerald holds a Masters of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute, a Masters in Special Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and she is an Illinois Certified Elementary Ed and Art Teacher and a Certified Illinois Learning Behavior Specialist. She is a 200-hour certified yoga teacher through YogaWorks - ERYT (experienced registered yoga teacher) and is certified as RCYT (registered childrens yoga teacher) - through Yoga Alliance. She has over 30 years of teaching experience including 10 years as the art teacher for the onsite schools at Cunningham Children's Home in Urbana, where she began teaching Kids yoga in 2006 before creating the Kids program at Amara in 2008.

Here's what people are saying about our Kids' Programs:

"My children have attended Amara Yoga & Arts for kids for the second year and they absolutely love the relaxed and fun atmosphere of the studio. During their art classes on Saturday mornings, the children have a chance to freely explore and express their creativity with a variety of media in 2D and 3D. Our son (age 7), who attended more classes than our daughter (age 9) due to schedule availability, brings home a number of very interesting art objects that he creates with the help of the amazing instructors. These are not only functional but very attractive indeed. While there he was introduced to sewing, which he kept doing all by himself at home, knitting; in addition to painting, drawing, and more. Yoga and arts help keep him focused on doing something that he truly enjoys. I recommend enrolling your child in the Yoga and Arts for kids at Amara."