YOGA & MINDFULNESS FOR KIDS TEACHER-TRAINING
ONLINE AND SELF-PACED BEGINNING WHEN YOU ARE READY!
YOGA & MINDFULNESS FOR KIDS TEACHER-TRAINING ONLINE
Immerse yourself in our Yoga & Mindfulness for Kids Teacher Training from the comfort of your own home. This course is a flexible online course, self-paced and optional Instructor lead.
This online course includes age-appropriate Yoga & Mindfulness for Kids to support you on your journey with yoga on the mat or classroom environment. The training is not just for yoga teachers, but for anyone who wants to make this world a better place. Parents, teachers, educators, and caregivers, anyone who wants to empower young minds to be in touch with their inner being. This course will give you the much-needed skills, knowledge, resources, and confidence you will need to start teaching yoga to kids today!
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Upon completion of this Online Yoga & Mindfulness for Kids Teacher Training, you will know the following areas:
Breathing: Breathing practices (energizing and calming breaths)
Postures: Mat based yoga movements - Learn how to communicate the pose, when, and how to use the pose. Yoga poses for the energetic body and sensory processing as well as mobility and modifications.
Yoga for classrooms: Chair based yoga movements.
Childhood Development: Learn how yoga supports growth and development. Learn essential motor skills needed for academic success.
Emotions: Learn how yoga can help manage emotions.
Focus activities: Single pointed focus to build focus and attention.
Resting activities: Practices to calm the nervous system.
Flow Yoga: Sun Salutation.
Patanjali's 8 Limbs of Yoga: Discussion points and practices to increase mindfulness.
Group work: Partner poses, Mandala, and age-appropriate games.
Anatomy: Basic anatomy and physiology of the skeletal system, nervous system, endocrine system, respiratory system, and digestive system of children and teens.
Yoga for special needs: Understand ADHD, Autism, Down Syndrome, Asthma, and Primitive Reflexes.
The energetic body: The Chakra System.
Storytelling and sequencing: Learn how to create kids yoga lessons based on Howard Garners Learning Styles.
WHO IS THIS TRAINING FOR?
Yoga instructors who would like to offer kids yoga classes.
A classroom teacher who would like to include yoga and mindfulness activities into your daily classroom routine.
Parents who wishes to learn how to teach yoga and mindfulness to share with your children.
Or somebody with NO prior yoga experience and would love to teach yoga and mindfulness to kids and teens.
There are no requirements to take this online course. Anybody can teach kids yoga!
Believing that there is a powerful experience that is much needed to begin a shift in the way that transforms the lives of children and teens.
YOGA FOR THE CLASSROOM
These activities to choose from, these recommendations will inspire and help even out the flow of energy at various points of the day, in any group setting. None of the activities are necessarily meant to be sequenced in any particular steps, nor do you need to use a specific number of activities in order to restore tranquility. It will fall in, with your better judgment of what the situation calls for at that moment.
YOGA FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
Learn how to adjust yoga to include and support children with challenges.
STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE BRAIN
If we want to empower students, we must teach them how they can control their own cognitive and emotional health and their own learning. Teaching students how their brain operates is a huge step. Even young students can learn strategies for priming their brains to learn more efficiently and become more resilient.
HOW DOES THE ONLINE COURSE WORK?
Self-Paced: There are modules for you to work through at your own pace, including a downloadable manual, reflection exercises, voice recorded slides, and videos. You may start as soon as you register.
You can log into the course whenever you have time to work on it! Upon completing all modules, you will have reflection assignments to hand in, and your final homework is to create a kid's yoga lesson plan.
All work will be handed back to you with feedback and suggestions within 14-days.
After you complete all modules, you'll receive your PDF version of your 80hr yoga alliance certified certificate.
Optional Instructor lead: Each week for eight weeks, you will be able to participate in a 2-hour live Q&A community discussion via Zoom.
Live check-ins will be held once per week (day per week and time will be determined closer to March based on who registers with their time zone). We encourage you to join us live to feel more connected to the content and community. However if you can't attend any lives then you can listen to the recording in your own time that will be saved to the Facebook community group.
HOW LONG DO I HAVE TO COMPLETE THE COURSE?
The course is self-paced, you can take as long as you need! I recommend trying to finish within six months to 1 year, so the information stays fresh in your mind.
“Invest in yourself in a way that will benefit children for years to come.”
In collaboration with the MTC BALI, a non-profit organisation created to enhance the daily lives of children and families affected by physical and mental disabilities, we donate 15% of the training profits.
MEET JEANNE WELSH
Creator of the Yoga & Mindfulness for Kids ONLINE Teacher-Training course.
Created from my own childhood trauma to give children the tools I never had growing up… My story begins at Uzenmyethu child care facility, GuGulethu Township, Cape Town, South Africa. All over the world, there is an accelerated growing need for children to learn life skills that could extend beyond the school walls and promote health and wellness in other areas of their life.
Over the past 10 years, I have been working with children with all types of backgrounds, sharing the gift of yoga. Noticing this growing need for change, I wanted to create a training not just for Yoga Teachers, but for Parents, Teachers, Educators and Caregivers, anyone who wants to empower young minds to be in touch with their inner being; anyone who wants to empower young minds to be the best they can be. Anyone who wants to teach children to love who they are, Body, Mind & Soul. Anyone who wants to invest in themselves in a way that would benefit children for years to come.
THERE ARE CURRENTLY TWO TRAINING PROGRAMS ON OFFER:
Self - paced: 80-Hour Children's Yoga & Mindfulness Teacher Training Online
Mentorship: 100-Hour 8-week Instructor lead Children’s Yoga and Mindfulness Training Online.
SELF-PACED
This course is a flexible online course. It is self-paced. There are modules for you to work through at your own pace, along with the downloadable instruction manuals and voice recorded slides and videos. You can log into the course whenever you have time to work on it! You will have access to our community where you will be able to share your assessment homework share ideas, ask questions and gain support with other class participants from all over the world.
Upon completing all modules, there are assignments to check for understanding to submit to an instructor. All work will be returned to you with feedback and suggestions within 14 days. After completing this training, you will receive the Yoga for Kids 80hr Yoga and Mindfulness Certification.
INVESTMENT ONLY USD $499
8 - WEEK MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
This program is aimed to support and guide you on your journey with Kids Yoga. It is tailored to your needs, interests, and goals.
Your mentors, Jeanne and Avi, will guide, support, and inspire you through weekly 1-hour Zoom calls during which you will reflect on your weekly module. This is an educational opportunity to continue to hone in on one’s skills, creativity and find your own teaching voice. From our weekly meetings, we will also provide you with extra materials that will help sharpen your skills i.e. handouts, lesson plans, worksheets, etc. During these meetings, we will look at the week's topic as well as questions and answers in a group format- which always leads to fantastic interactive conversations. These are recorded in case you miss it.
Topics will be covered in the weekly online platform, Zoom. Further exploration of energetics, Ayurveda and Ayurvedic principles in a sequence for teens, how to set up kids yoga lessons using zoom, marketing like a warrior, yoga business in 2021, specialty classes, and developing and marketing workshops.
During the 8 weeks, you will receive 8 group meetings via Zoom, 1 private 1-hour session, and a whole bunch of additional materials and resources highlighting the teacher training modules as well as materials focused on your individual journey.
By the end of our time together, you will have practiced 4 kids yoga classes, handed in all assignments, started your very own kids yoga business to start teaching yoga, mindfulness, and therapeutic yoga classes for children and teens in nurseries, primary schools, high schools, and private classes.
Upon completing all modules, there are assignments to check for understanding to submit to an instructor. All work will be returned to you with feedback and suggestions within 14 days. After completing this training, you will receive the Yoga for Kids 100hr Yoga and Mindfulness Certification.
INVESTMENT ONLY USD $899
YOU WILL RECEIVE
A 80hr or 100hr YACEP Yoga Alliance certification as a Kids Yoga Teacher upon full completion of the online training.
A 40 page, fully illustrated with succinct instructions digital card deck. This contains topics such as breathing, focusing, relaxing, sun salutations, chakras and chair yoga poses.
Beautifully illustrated worksheets to use in your kid's yoga lessons.
An Assessment manual, Yoga Pose book, and Lesson plan outline.
Access to our private online kid's yoga support group.
APPLY FOR THE TRAINING!
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