Episode 16: Creator of Award Winning Kids in Motion show: Dance Movement and Yoga Expert, Julie Markovitz
The Student Fitness Experts Podcast
Release Date: 11/17/2020
Episode 33: Fundamental Movement Skills Part 3
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“If you really try to give too much instruction at this age, you can really cause a child to struggle later on. So, just being supportive and motivating them to do the best of their abilities is really what we're going for.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is a very intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. Fundamental movement skills are important through the ages of two to five. Children grow and learn through their own developmental experiences, which creates unique...
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Episode 32: Fundamental Movement Skills Part 2
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“If I can feel them pushing down on my hands, if they're able to do it, when they're holding my hands, then we can kind of progress from there to kind of get an understanding of why they are struggling with doing it.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is a very intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. In Part Two of the Fundamental Movement Skills Series, Karen and Farah discuss how to support children in their developmental stages based on the way they learn. Every...
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Episode 31: Fundamental Movement Skills Part 1
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“As they [children] continue to grow, they keep building these little blocks on top of each one. And that's what enables them to be able to do these more complicated skills as they get older.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is a very intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. In Part One of the Fundamental Movement Skills Series, Karen and Farah explain fundamental movement skills and their importance in a child’s growth. They explore how sibling relationships,...
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Episode 30: What Does Fearless Mean To You?
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“No matter how successful you are or whatever success means to you, you can always benefit from a mentor- learning and growing, there's always so much more to do.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is an intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. Fearless is a term we use in this podcast a lot - it’s one of our favorite things to ask our guests! From being fearless in the face of failures to being fearless in the face of great obstacles, there is nothing like that...
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Episode 29: Understanding Different Types of Learning
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“If they're struggling to gain a skill, and you directly focus in a way that they learn really well, it might be a much easier way for them to at least understand what you want them to do, and then have a greater willingness to want to keep trying.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is an intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. In an entertaining and informative episode, Karen and Farah talk about the different types of learners. One could determine the styles in...
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Episode 28: Why is Mentorship SO Important
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“No matter how successful you are or whatever success means to you, you can always benefit from a mentor- learning and growing, there's always so much more to do.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is an intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. Having a mentor in the early stages of your child’s adolescence could phenomenally help their overall development. That is why in today’s episode, Farah and Karen speak about the importance of a mentor or guide for children....
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Episode 27: Stress Vs Stressor & What they do to us
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“No matter what struggle or challenge that we're going through, we will come out stronger on the other side.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is a very intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. In today’s episode, Karen and Farah talk about stress and break down the various coping strategies for stress. While we as adults struggle to deal with everyday anxiety and express our concerns circling the same, we fail to notice that kids could experience the same. The...
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Episode 26: Cosmic Wisdom Coaching | Teen Specialist , Robin Wald
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“It’s okay to fail, you're learning. It's not about perfectionism, it's about bringing joyfulness to it.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is an intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. In an enlightening conversation today, meet Robin Wald, an expert coach, teacher, and educator. Robin walks us through her fulfilling life journey into becoming a certified wellness coach for children and explaining her lessons. We learn new ways to impart courage in children to...
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Episode 25 What Fitness For the whole Child Actually Mean?
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“Leaving in the space and the opportunity to try everything so that they can learn what works for them is definitely what they're going to need.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is an intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. In today’s episode, Karen and Farah break down the concept of the whole child and talk about the importance of social-emotional learning in children. Karen and Farah discuss why they believe that every feeling is a good feeling and how it always...
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Episode 24 : Why Play is So Important?
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K & F_Play_Show Notes “Encouraging children to go outside in all weather builds resilience, but more importantly, it saves them from spending their life, merely tolerating the bad days in favor of a handful of good ones.” The Student Fitness Experts podcast is a very intentional venture that aims to create a playful movement to help students grow up with inner confidence and self-awareness and a healthy body and mind. How can you make your children more adaptable to the different challenges that come their way? Sometimes, bad weather could be your child’s best teacher. It could...
info_outlineJulie Markovitz Show Notes
“I believe that through movement children grow and you, you can really honor the whole child through dance and movement.”
The purpose of the Student Fitness Experts Podcast series is to empower and educate anyone that works with kids, in a way that benefits the whole child to become successful, strong, and empowered young adults.
In today’s remarkable episode, we have with us the very gentle Julie Markovitz, who is an experienced preschool teacher, Children's Programming Creator and Certified Yoga/ Qigong/ Meditation/ Reiki Practitioner. Julie shares with us the best advice to inculcate movement in children’s curriculum and tells us why most schools lack the finances to hire a professional for the same. Children, she says, grow via movement, and creative movements like yoga help bring down the stress levels of both children and adults alike. This episode is a promising note for educators, teachers and coaches who wish to find the best for their children, by understanding them, giving space and honoring their feelings, while also helping keep them physically fit and relaxed at all times.
Tune in and learn to integrate movement and expression in your children’s shaping, and set them up for ultimate success!
About the Guest:
Julie Markovitz is an experienced preschool teacher, Children's Programming Creator and Certified Yoga/ Qigong/ Meditation/ Reiki Practitioner. She started dancing and practicing yoga as a young girl and also loves walking, biking, cooking, reading, and spending time with people she loves. Julie earned her BA degree in child development with an emphasis in dance from California State University, Northridge and has certifications in yoga, meditation, Qigong, and Reiki.
At the beginning of her career, Julie created, co-wrote, co-produced and performed, the multi-award winning Kids in Motion, a creative movement and music program financed and distributed by CBS Fox video. It was on Nickelodeon and recognized by parents’ choice in good housekeeping and continues to be loved by children and parents everywhere. Julie still teaches yoga, Qigong, meditation, and creative movement at yoga studios, schools, health clubs, synagogues, churches, law firms, offices, corporations, and private homes throughout Los Angeles and has been doing this for over 30 years, reflecting totally her grounded love for the same. Julie is by all means an inspiring person who’s given us loads to take-away from today’s hearty conversation!
TimeStamps:
[00:24] About Julie Markovitz, a snippet of her Journey
[04:56] Julie talks about her classes
[07:03] About Julie’s learnings about kids and parents over the years
[10:15] Julie offers tips to parents, teachers and coaches
[13:27] Julie talks about handling difficult kids
[16:39] Understanding yoga better
[20:27] Understanding what “fearless” means to Julie
[24:40] How Julie got into doing what she does today
[29:40] On her parents’ role in helping her be where she is today
[34:08] Julie concluding advice to educators, parents and teachers
[43:10] Connect with Julie
Quotes:
“I believe that through movement children grow and you, you can really honor the whole child through dance and movement.”
“I have felt my best when physical since I was a child.”
“Fearless means taking my fear with me.”
“I have to move every day.”
“What I’m really appreciating now is being outside and walking.”
“They loved us, they believed in us and they listened to us.”
“It’s hard being vulnerable because we feel like we have to be on top of everything all the time and we’re not.”
Connect with Julie :
YouTube: Kids in Motion
E-mail: [email protected]
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/banana_moon_wellness/