Want to be certified to teach yoga to children, but need to do it from home in your own time? The Kids & Yoga!™ International Teacher Training Certification, with its distance-learning approach, is perfect for you! Contact Cristin now to join the first group being trained; the program begins April 2010! NOTE: If you inquired about this course before October 2009, Cristin likely lost your contact details when her hard drive crashed, so please email again.
- The Approach: Find Your Inner Teacher, Find Your Teaching Flow
- The Perspective: Possibility for Every Imperfectly Perfect Child
- The Experience: Enhance Yourself First to Educate Each Child
- The Fundamentals: Tuning In, Warm Ups, Breathwork, Postures, Mudras, Meditation, Celestial Communication, Relaxation, Closing Class
- The Tool Kit: Top Tricks, Tips & Treats for Kids
- The Expertise: (you choose)
- Baby Yoga
- Yoga for 2-4 Year Olds
- Yoga for 5-10 Year Olds
- Pre-Teens
- Teens
- Special Needs
- Yoga for Schools
- The Classes: Six Creative Class Creation Techniques
- The Fun Stuff: Yogic Food, Yoga Games, Yoga Songs, Partner Yoga, Yoga Birthdays & Other Parties
- The Connections: Connect, Protect, Respect -
Yoga for Environmental Education & Earth/Ecology Consciousness
- The Business: Keeping Busy with Your Yoga Business
- The Start: Supported Steps to Assure Success
- The Teaching: Taking Time to Test Your Training
Co-create your own certification process, receive coaching calls and emails throughout, get started teaching, and receive a Certificate of Completion. The training does not have a specific length of time; you will be able to complete it on your own time, as you like.
The program will be fun, dynamic and flexible, as well as hold the intention of helping you find your way as a kids' yoga teacher, using your best talents and experience. Some of what the training includes are: reading assignments, personal daily yoga practice and journaling, a requirement to take adult yoga classes from varied teachers and assess their teaching, a requirement to observe children's classes or activities and assess the leader's approach with children, some reading on relevant topics and writing, creating a 6-week yoga curriculum and offering it to children with a self-assessment of how it went (including parent and child feedback) and more!
Materials included in tuition are: an in-depth training manual (which will be published as a book in future), coaching calls, 12 teleconference meetings offered on a rotating basis, and email support.
Regarding your areas of "Expertise" (bullet above), you will choose what you want to specialize in for age groups, special needs and/or yoga for schools, as you like. This means you can train in all areas, or you can just choose the ones you want to focus on now. For example, a preschool teacher may just want to specialize in "Yoga for 2-4 Year Olds" now. If later, she wants to add another expertise area, then she can do that any time in future (at no additional cost).
We are still waiting for the Yoga Alliance (U.S.-based international organization) to release its standards for training and certification as children's yoga teachers RYT-C (Registered Yoga Teacher-Children). We want this program to fit into those standards, which will bring you even more credibility as a teacher. Once they release the standards, you can check here for an update on that possibility.
When you complete the program, you will receive a Certificate of Completion and can say in your biography that you are certified to teach yoga to children through the Kids & Yoga! International Teacher Training program.
Questions? Reach Cristin at: cristin@kidsandyoga.com
