Teacher Trainings

The Youth Yoga School LLC trainings are broken down into modules. These modules are designed to offer you the most information and practice time available. We have gathered our 30+ years of experience, interviewed top professionals in the field of child development and created a curriculum that is packed with all the tools you could possibly need to equip you to teach children.

The Youth Yoga School LLC will continue to update our material as our combined yoga community builds research and gathers information. In addition, we want to offer you ongoing support with your teaching efforts. To help with this, we  created a private online Youth Yoga School LLC forum that is included in our training price.This is to combat the feeling, “I do not have enough energy. I don’t know what to do next. I have this unique situation I could use help with.” Instead of claiming, teaching children’s yoga is not my cup of tea. Bring it to the forum, our online community will support and offer you some brilliant ideas. Not only will you receive up to date information, resources, curriculum, and training, you will meet other yoga teachers and child focused professionals from around the world. You can connect, brainstorm and support each other sharing the same vision…bringing yoga to our children and teens globally.

To Teach Children Yoga~You Need to Teach Real Kids!

Our program believes in the importance of practice to build competence and confidence. There is nothing like teaching actual children to help you understand developmental issues and what works. Each weekend, we will provide children in our workshop time that we will be able to interact with and practice teaching. Our program is set up with three opportunities to teach yoga to youth.

One, you will be teaching during workshop days, practicum teaching will be with community children.

Second, part of your home practice will be to teach with children you know.

The third opportunity for practicum is to provide service in the community. This comes in the form of outreach through our SEVA Service hours. (YMCA, Boys & Girls Club, The Dream Center, etc.)

Not only will this build in you competence and confidence, but it will also shape the lives of children. You ability to influence the world will start immediately!

Module 1: Fun-damentals of Youth Yoga
This weekend will focus on the basics of child development and how they apply in a yoga class. We will practice creating age appropriate yoga class plans.  You will get to observe faculty teaching in action plus additional practicum experience. This is a required weekend for all teachers. Finally, you will begin to explore ethics and boundaries with children and parents. You won’t want to miss this!! Opening ceremony on Friday night. (Friday at 6 until Sunday at 4 pm)

Module 2: Techniques and Training- Learning How to Play While You Practice
This module is especially good for non yoga teachers as we will focus on adapting traditional yoga poses and practices to kids. During every month/module we will have self-reflection and support regarding SEVA teaching, we will have practicum time with children, and we will gather/share teaching resources.

Module 3: Aspire to Inspire -Connecting with Kids
Learn how to develop curriculum, manage the classroom, communicate with kids, and accommodate special needs.  We will revisit child development concepts so we can truly to aspire to inspire the children we teach. This module is especially helpful for yoga teachers who have less experience teaching children.

Module 4: ”The Hip Bone’s Connected to the Thigh Bone”
The good news is, we will not only be talking about the hip bone and the thigh bone. This weekend we’ll focus on the “whole child” including body, mind, emotion and spirit. Topics include anatomy, physiology, sequencing, safety issues, and review of applying the “whole child approach” to special needs youth. (ADHD and autism will be covered specifically)

Module 5: Growing the Teacher Within
This weekend focuses on understanding the roots of yoga history and philosophy so we can grow into a mature practice for ourselves and the students we teach. This will include ethics and realizing  your own philosophy of teaching. What is your vision? This weekend will help you clarify that.

Note:

Each module is 16-17 hours (except for opening weekend, Fun-damentals of Youth Yoga, which begins on Friday evening at 6 pm)

Each module will include a practicum of teaching (see SEVA Service below)

Registered Children’s Yoga Teacher (5 month program)

If you are currently a yoga teacher and would like to learn a more in depth look at teaching yoga to young people, the Registered Children’s Yoga Teacher certification is for you. You will learn yoga techniques, teaching methodology of  childhood ages, yoga philosophy and experience teaching kids first hand! (See SEVA Practice below) This is considered to be the “Master’s” program for yoga teachers studying differences in age groups mentally, physically and emotionally.  You will learn how to effectively teach children in special populations like autism, attention disorders, behavior issues and others. We will learn yoga poses, games, songs and have a blast! You will receive personal instruction, attention and love as we learn together! Included is your training binder, personal instruction and mentorship, membership to the Youth Yoga School online forum, plus Yoga in a Bag curriculum and T-shirt. When you complete this training, you will have your toolbox ready, mind prepared and heart open to teach. We will address the issued of yoga as a business to assist in fulfilling your work in the world. (95 hours) You will be able to apply for the RCYT through Yoga Alliance upon successful completion of all 5 modules and home practices.

$1650 plus materials
(includes 95 hour training, copies, training binder, Youth Yoga School Forum, ongoing mentorship and support,  and Yoga in a Bag curriculum of choice)

Youth Yoga Teaching Certificate  (You choose 2 modules of your preference)

Youth Yoga Teaching Certificate is designed to give you yogic skills and principles for application. Whether you are a fitness professional, school teacher or educator, social worker, psychologist or anyone with an interest in teaching children yoga, this is certification for you. It will provide the basic understanding of teaching in all childhood levels from pre-school to teen. You will learn yoga techniques that can be applied for after school programs, military bases, home school programs, or youth camps. All participants will begin with Module 1, then choose as many additional modules you like. This way you can focus on meeting your own learning goals.  Youth Yoga Certificate and/or Continuing Education for Yoga Alliance given upon successful completion.

$650 plus materials
This includes module 1 + 1 additional module of your choice.
(includes 32 hour training, copies, training binder, Youth Yoga School Forum, ongoing mentorship and support, Youth Yoga t-shirt, and Yoga in a Bag curriculum of choice)

Each Teacher Trainee has the option of attending as many modules as they like.  The price will be based upon the total hours of contact hours received, calculated on a per hour basis.  And you will know the amount ahead of time.

Child Focused Professional Training

The Child Focused Professional Training is to support yoga in the classroom. This sampler package was designed for the educator who wants to incorporate yoga techniques into their classroom. You will learn skills you can sprinkle throughout your day including breath techniques to calm nerves or refocus energies, stretches that can be done at a desk or standing that will help children to focus, simple relaxation or visualization ideas designed to redirect anxious behaviors. This whole child approach will  address the physical, cognitive and emotional needs of the student at all age levels. Add some of these simple techniques into your daily classroom, you win and the students win!

$150/ pp (group discounts available)
Contact stacey@yogaandlife.com to schedule your workshop inservice.

Seva Practice:

SEVA (service) is a crucial part of our personal lives, and now we are so excited to include it in The Youth Yoga School LLC. We want to share our vision of yoga and  the benefits to children. Now, we can bring  it into our own community! We will be partnering with the YWCA, the Evansville Boy’s & Girl’s Club, Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation, Patchwork Central, and others for complimentary Kids Yoga Classes.

Contact stacey@yogaandlife.com to schedule a Kids Yoga Class at your facility.