Online Children's Yoga Teacher Training
Overview
This ONLINE Foundation children’s yoga teacher training is suitable for yoga teachers, nursery and primary school teachers, parents, therapists – anyone working or living with children who practices yoga. The course will provide you with tools, techniques, ideas and confidence to share yoga and mindfulness and all its benefits with children aged 2 – 12 years.
Self-paced for you to work through at your own time, our online teaching platform will guide you to explore fun yogic ways to stimulate a child’s development whilst bringing awareness to body, breath and wellbeing. The YogaBeez Foundation children’s yoga teacher training incorporates all aspects of the traditional yoga and mindfulness practices blended with Montessori philosophy, education and works of Howard Gardner and Thich Nhat Hanh to educate, exercise and empower the WHOLE child.
You do not need to be yoga teacher to attend but we do recommend you have a yoga practice. Every applicant will be considered. We encourage you to complete your training within 1 to 2 months but you have 12 months available to you.
Curriculum – Foundation Training
By undertaking this online foundation level children’s yoga teacher training course, you will gain knowledge of the following areas:
- Brief history of Yoga and incorporating yoga philosophy into your classes.
- Practice and play with essential warm ups and child appropriate yoga poses
- Explore and recognise the power of proper breathing
- Introducing meditation to children
- Mindful or Mind-full
- What is compassionate communication and how can we apply this?
- Experience the joy of affirmations, understand mindset
- Relaxation and stress recognition/management – baby nidra
- Welcoming in all emotions
- Partner poses and group yoga games
- Explore yoga with music and books
- Benefits of Children’s Yoga and Mindfulness
- Brief history of Yoga and the 8-fold path relevant to children and teachers
- Discover the stages of Child Development (ages 2-11)
- Understand, educate and exercise the “Whole” child – incorporate the classroom curriculum
- Discover the educators at the root of this program – i.e. Maria Montessori, Howard Gardner, Jon Kabat-Zinn etc
- Classroom management
- Ethics of being a good teacher
- Self-care
- Observation, discussion, preparation and jointly teaching a lesson (ages 2 – 6yrs)
- Tips for starting up your career from children’s yoga teacher training to teaching
What you will receive:
- An in-depth teacher training of children’s yoga and mindfulness
- Detailed manual of poses, philosophy, teaching tips, book list, lesson plans and much more – This will be a printable PDF emailed to you when you start.
- Access to an easy to follow, recourse-packed training platform
- Pre-recorded lectures with Bryony Duckitt (Founder of YogaBeez) and Sophie Bee (Leading trainer) will guide you through your training journey
- Fun homework assignments will give you an opportunity to get creative at home with family and friends
- An assessment and one-to-one mentoring of your first live children’s yoga class – this will be recorded.
- Free access to the training platform for 2 months after you are certified
- Monthly Zoom meet ups for the teaching community
- Access to our International teacher community and potential job opportunities
- Certification Internationally Accredited by Yoga Alliance that allows to start Teaching Yoga to Children straight away. This will be a printable pdf emailed to you when you complete.
- Continuing education hours if you are a registered yoga teacher
- Qualification and discounts for Liability insurance and DBS
- 2 monthly newsletter with continued ideas, inspiration, news and lesson plans
Training Dates
Online Self-Paced Foundation Training – 2023
Starting: Whenever you are ready to start, click the book now link below. On receipt of your booking, we will send you a confirmation email followed by you own personal login details to the platform.
Time: Your own time – you can complete within 4 weeks or over 12 months. Whatever suits your schedule.
Venue: Your own home
Fee: £550
Customer Testimonials
The possibilities and ideas were endless!
"As I reflect back to the beginning of my journey with YogaBeez, I can definitely highlight the continuous understanding and support that I have received from Bryony, right from the very first time we spoke over the phone. Her passion and ambition to make a difference in today's modern society was such an inspiration for me that I wanted to be part of this hive. Taking everything into account from the Foundation Stage, I can only re-affirm my strong believe and strongly commit myself into continuing the YogaBeez unique journey. The knowledge and open approach of the tutors was a truly magnificent experience and I can hardly wait to see what the next modules unfold into! I think we all have brought together a really special gift to the course and hopefully we can all keep that special seed growing and look forward to celebrate together being part of the YogaBeez Family. The possibilities and ideas were endless! I honestly can't thank you enough for all the tools and inspiration that the training have given me to improve my current classes,"
Lorena Luque,
Argentina
A gift really which keeps on giving
"What a wonderful experience, a gift really which keeps on giving... reconnecting with one's inner child felt warm and comfortable, seeing how simple things can make yoga accessible for children, making it FUN and joyous, and being surrounded with fellow students to embark on a path which is exciting and thrilling. A couple of months later I can say it has already entirely changed my perspective on things, life, friends, family and perhaps most of all, the way I look and interact with my own children."
Cindy Maas
Founder of Relax in de Klas, Brussels, Belgium
Encouraging, empowering and inspiring
"YogaBeez training with Bryony is outstanding. I signed up for the Foundation and Advanced training, not really knowing what to expect, except that I wanted to understand how to teach yoga to children and teenagers. What I gained from this experience was significantly more. Bryony takes you on a journey not just into the mind and body of a child and teenager, but also on an experience that is so enriching and special on a personal level. Bryony is very generous with sharing her knowledge and experience and she’s constantly encouraging, empowering and inspiring, and her feedback is always constructive and positive. The YogaBeez approach blends traditional yoga with the Montessori principles of hands on learning and giving children creative choices which works incredibly well together - this not only makes it a more engaging experience for the child, but it also adds another fascinating dimension to teaching yoga to children. I would not hesitate for a second to recommend YogaBeez training to anyone thinking of becoming a children or teen yoga teacher."
Heena Patel
Energising, hands-on, creative and informative
"Thank you for your wisdom, passion, energy and warmth. You have given me the confidence to continue on this path of truth and light. May we all share the miracles of yoga with the same open heartedness that you gave it to us. This training was energising, hands-on, creative and informative."
Amy Friedman
Copenhagen, Denmark
Exceeded my expectations
"Bryony is the real deal when it comes to being both a yogi and a teacher. She comes from a wealth of experience and shares her knowledge in a genuine way. Her lessons and resources for teaching yoga to kids are thorough and effective, they exceeded my expectations. I feel really confident in starting my children's yoga classes."
Kim Buikema
USA
I am literally buzzing! Is that why you called it YogaBeez?!
"I am literally buzzing! Is that why you called it YogaBeez?! I can't stop smiling! Filled with gratitude for all that I have learnt so far and for all the opportunities that are presenting themselves... cannot thank you enough! You know, as a teacher, you tell yourself that if you can make a difference to just one student, then it’s all worth it? Well, I am that student! I’m telling you now, you can give yourself a great big hug and congratulate yourself! You have opened a door for me and given me the courage to leap through it and not be afraid of what’s on the other side! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Namaste”
Kylie Barker
Berkshire, UK
It was a great therapeutic experience for me
"I realised during this course that a children's yoga class is really a laboratory and a microcosm, and that we have unlimited possibilities to bring nature, sciences, arts, colours, psychomotor activities and languages to it. I have never thought of how a yoga class, apart from passing on yoga which is already a treasure for us all, it can also be so rich pedagogically. Finally, after this training I realised how serious and buttoned up we all behave and that this is a big mistake. We slowly and gradually distance ourselves from the source of laughter and lightness that lies inside us. It was a great therapeutic experience for me to learn and also play and laugh with everyone else and touch and dance and move freely as a child. I felt safe in the hands of this great educator who works with respect and love for children and I took back home so much out of this training."
Despina Christadoni
Greece
Thank you for sharing such a special gift
"I laughed, I cried, I laughed, I played, I helped and was helped, I sang, I danced, I tasted, I created and daydreamed about this time and not that time, in time and with time, I painted the universe with colour and felt your colour and found my voice, I heard my quiet, I was found and I discovered my lost… in me, in we and them and in us. I am I am I am I am… my breath! You are good… I am good… we are good. The you in me recognises the me in you. Thank you for you. Thank you for sharing such a special gift. I will always remember your voice when I hear a chime. Thank you."
Vicky Botes
mum and nursery school teacher
The best thing I’ve done in years
"The YogaBeez training was really special. Just fabulous, the best thing I’ve done in years!"
Sara Spencer
Kent, UK
