100-Hour Online Immersion and Teacher Training into Yoga and Mindfulness for Children and Teens

Certification

A 80 hour YACEP Yoga Alliance certification as a Kids Yoga Teacher upon full completion of the online training is included.

This course is suitable for:

• Adults who would like to learn how to teach yoga
• Therapists, educators, and other professionals who want to enhance their skills
• Parents and caregivers wishing to develop yoga and mindfulness with their children
• Certified yoga teachers wishing to expand their knowledge.

Curriculum

The course comprises:

• Over 200 online lectures covering kids’ yoga and mindfulness
• Two detailed manuals – one for yoga poses and one for assessment
• Digital, downloadable Yoga and Mindfulness for Kids, Bali Card Deck
• 80 hours Yoga and Mindfulness accreditation from The Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP)

Course modules:

• Yoga philosophy for the modern world
• The developmental milestones and how yoga can support development
• Brain-building movement
• The seven senses in the body and how yoga and mindfulness support sensory development
• Understanding the developing child and teen brain
• Basic anatomy and physiology
• Regulating the nervous system through yoga and mindfulness
• Breathing activities
• Yoga and Mindfulness for the classroom environment
• Learning styles
• Growth mindset
• Mindfulness practices
• Mindful music
• Meditation
• Storytelling
• Sensory play
• The Sun Salutation
• Yoga sequencing
• The energetic body
• Games and creative art
• Innovative and integrative lesson planning
• How to establish and run a successful kids' yoga business.

How the training works

This course is a flexible online course. It is a self-paced or optional Instructor lead.

Self-Paced: There are modules for you to work through at your own pace, along with a downloadable manual, reflection exercises, voice recorded slides, and videos. 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 35-minute kids yoga designed for each specific age group learned with a hand in a step by step lesson plan for each. 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 50 hour noncontact (including assignments and self-study) Yoga Alliance certified certificate.

Optional Instructor Lead - Each week for eight weeks, you will be able to participate in a live question and answer community discussion via the Facebook community group. Live check-ins will be held every Thursday at 6:00 pm (GMT+8)

Highlights

You will get a Kids Yoga Pose Guide, one for each separate age group too, and a fully illustrated with brief instructions digital card deck. This contains topics such as breathing, focusing, relaxing, sun salutations, chakras, and chair yoga poses.

Exclusive, kids coloring in and reflection sheets to hand out to your yoga students and printable class plans, and much more!

You will also learn the business of kids yoga! The final module of this course is all about showing you exactly how to earn a full-time income from teaching 1:1, or group yoga classes to kids, anywhere in the world!

A set of Yoga and Mindfulness cards - This entertaining and useful tool comprises over 40 activities that include yoga asanas, breath actions, mindfulness tools, brain breakthroughs, visualizations, creative movements, and team-building exercises that are specifically chosen to help harmonize any setting to a peaceful and productive environment.

Example yoga lesson plans to use with your students, a lesson plan outline, and access to the private online kid's yoga support group.

Required reading

The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind - by Daniel J Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson

This course is held online. Serenity Eco Guesthouse and Yoga is based in Canggu, Bali (GMT+8). Jeannie will lead the online course offering live-streaming sessions to students depending on your time zone via Zoom which you can participate in from the comfort of your home by just using your phone or computer.

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• 100-hour teacher training tuition
• 80-hour YACEP Yoga Alliance certification as a Kids Yoga Teacher upon full completion
• A set of Yoga and Mindfulness cards
• Example yoga lesson plans to use with your students
• A Lesson plan outline
• Coursework Manual
• Access to private online kid's yoga support group
• A Kids Yoga Pose Guide, one for each separate age group too
• Exclusive, kids coloring in and reflection sheets to hand out to your yoga students

• Food
• Accommodation

• A reservation requires a deposit of 100% of the total price.
• The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.