Amara Kids Programs
Amara Yoga & Arts at Lincoln Square Mall, 300 S Broadway Ave, Suite 156B, Urbana, IL 61801
About
Amara Kids Programs offers Kids Art & Yoga Camp and Saturday Morning Kids Art & Yoga Classes that combine activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, knitting, weaving, sewing, and multimedia design and construction with kids yoga. Weekly themes include Marvelous Monsters and Super Heroes, Famous Paintings and Masterpieces, Bubbles, Orbs and Buddha Paintings, Sewing Weaving and Yarn Art, Blast off to Inner and Outer Space, All Kinds of Self Portraits 2D, 3D, 4D!, Magical Mandalas & Wands Plus a Dragon or 2, Treasure Boxes and Treasures – Maps and Hunts Included, and Magical Creatures and their Homes and Habitats. Kids yoga elements in the program include focused breathing, play, storytelling, balance, meditation, creative visualization, breath work, poses, chanting, games, and savasana.
• Schedule: Summer camp weeks run June 1–5, June 8–12, June 15–19, June 22–26, July 6–10, July 13–17, July 20–24, July 27–31, and August 3–7, with mornings described as more structured and afternoons as less structured.
Kids Summer Camp at Amara is described as a blend of art and yoga in a fun and relaxed environment, with activities that are open-ended and allow kids to be themselves. Each week has a theme that guides art-making activities using many different materials, and children are introduced to long-term art projects that are completed in stages over several days. Mornings include opening arts and crafts, a yoga class, free time outside, and time to work on larger art projects related to the week’s theme, while afternoons offer less structure with self-directed art-making, an option for a more advanced yoga class, or quiet time and play outside. Kids programs at Amara are non-refundable and non-transferable and expire at the end of the session, and Amara Yoga & Arts offers both kids yoga and art classes and summer camps.
Kids programs at Amara are designed and taught by studio co-founder Kathryn Fitzgerald. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute and a Master’s in Special Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and she is an Illinois Certified Elementary Education 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 children’s yoga teacher) through Yoga Alliance. Kathryn 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 2009.
The studio’s stated goal is to make people feel nurtured, welcome, and comfortable and to share the practice of yoga with every person who joins, with the belief that yoga is for Every Body, including babies and kids. The studio philosophy emphasizes an inclusive and diverse studio community that welcomes people regardless of age, shape, size, or fitness level, and it rejects the notion of blindly following personality cults or idolizing a single “guru,” style, or lineage of yoga. Teachers at Amara are encouraged to cultivate their own creative expressions of different yoga styles while following safe practices. Amara Yoga & Arts serves the Champaign-Urbana area.
One parent reports that their children attended Amara Yoga & Arts for kids for a second year and that the children enjoyed the relaxed and fun atmosphere of the studio. In that parent’s description, Saturday morning art classes gave the children a chance to explore and express creativity with a variety of 2D and 3D media, and their 7-year-old brought home many art objects created with instructor support, including functional pieces. The parent notes that their child was introduced to sewing, which he continued at home, as well as knitting, painting, and drawing, and states that yoga and arts kept him focused on something he enjoys and that they recommend enrolling a child in the Yoga and Arts for kids at Amara.
Last updated May 23, 2026.
• Schedule: Summer camp weeks run June 1–5, June 8–12, June 15–19, June 22–26, July 6–10, July 13–17, July 20–24, July 27–31, and August 3–7, with mornings described as more structured and afternoons as less structured.
Kids Summer Camp at Amara is described as a blend of art and yoga in a fun and relaxed environment, with activities that are open-ended and allow kids to be themselves. Each week has a theme that guides art-making activities using many different materials, and children are introduced to long-term art projects that are completed in stages over several days. Mornings include opening arts and crafts, a yoga class, free time outside, and time to work on larger art projects related to the week’s theme, while afternoons offer less structure with self-directed art-making, an option for a more advanced yoga class, or quiet time and play outside. Kids programs at Amara are non-refundable and non-transferable and expire at the end of the session, and Amara Yoga & Arts offers both kids yoga and art classes and summer camps.
Kids programs at Amara are designed and taught by studio co-founder Kathryn Fitzgerald. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute and a Master’s in Special Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and she is an Illinois Certified Elementary Education 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 children’s yoga teacher) through Yoga Alliance. Kathryn 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 2009.
The studio’s stated goal is to make people feel nurtured, welcome, and comfortable and to share the practice of yoga with every person who joins, with the belief that yoga is for Every Body, including babies and kids. The studio philosophy emphasizes an inclusive and diverse studio community that welcomes people regardless of age, shape, size, or fitness level, and it rejects the notion of blindly following personality cults or idolizing a single “guru,” style, or lineage of yoga. Teachers at Amara are encouraged to cultivate their own creative expressions of different yoga styles while following safe practices. Amara Yoga & Arts serves the Champaign-Urbana area.
One parent reports that their children attended Amara Yoga & Arts for kids for a second year and that the children enjoyed the relaxed and fun atmosphere of the studio. In that parent’s description, Saturday morning art classes gave the children a chance to explore and express creativity with a variety of 2D and 3D media, and their 7-year-old brought home many art objects created with instructor support, including functional pieces. The parent notes that their child was introduced to sewing, which he continued at home, as well as knitting, painting, and drawing, and states that yoga and arts kept him focused on something he enjoys and that they recommend enrolling a child in the Yoga and Arts for kids at Amara.
Last updated May 23, 2026.
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