Benefits of Live Training: Experienced Mentors!
Yoga Alliance requires in-person training for certification.
The Young Yoga Masters 95 Hour Kids Yoga training is coming up to its 7th year now. This year we have arranged for a variety of experienced kids yoga teachers to mentor you, expose you to various teaching methodologies, and answer your questions.
That’s why I’m so very happy and proud to introduce the Trainers for the 2019 Summer Certification July 14-26 in Burlington, Ontario.
Best of all, these trainers are also graduates of the training. They use the tools you will get. They have full-time and part-time kids yoga businesses, teach inclusive yoga to specific kids populations, run yoga studios and bring the joy of yoga and meditation to kids everywhere.
Here’s the schedule of guest of our Trainers this summer:
Trainer: Marcia LeBlanc
Marcia is the Founder and Director of Yogi Frogz Kids, Let It Shine Yoga where she hosts family yoga retreats, and co-founder of Super Hero Kids Yoga.
She teaches kids yoga throughout Toronto and Oakville. Most noteworthy are her kids yoga, family yoga, yoga camps. Marcia is developing an international family yoga retreat too!
Marcia brings warmth and compassion to her classes. She leads by example with a smile and mindful listening.
Marcia has graduated from:
- 220 Hour IKYTA Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training (2018)
- Week long Youth Mindfulness Kids Program Training in England (2017)
- 95 Hour Young Yoga Masters Kids Yoga Teacher Training (2015)
- 500 Hour Moksha Yoga (Modo Yoga) Teacher Training (2011)
Marcia is an Associate Trainer in the Young Yoga Masters Training in Toronto.
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Trainer: Claire Louise
Claire and Aruna met in 2012, when Claire signed up for the very first 95 Hour Children’s Yoga Training offered by Young Yoga Masters. They began carpooling to Toronto and through this connection eventually brought the Ambassador Yoga 200 Hour Teacher Training Program to life in 2014.
Claire is also co-owner of Yoga Truly Studio in Grimsby, Ontario. She has an extremely successful children’s, tween, and teen yoga program at her studio and has delivered kids yoga classes throughout schools in her region.
Claire is an Experienced Yoga Teacher at the 500 level, Registered Children’s Yoga Teacher and Reiki Master and Lead Trainer in the Ambassador Yoga 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training at her studio.
She also teaches: Hatha / Vinyasa / Prenatal / Teen Yoga and Yoga Teacher Trainer
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Trainer: Yasuko Tanaka
Yasuko is the Executive Director and lead therapist at Zanshin Kids Inc.
Zanshin Kids programs are designed to help children with autism or other developmental disabilities to reach their full potential. Various therapies and programs are delivered by qualified therapists with each program customized based on the child’s needs. Our therapists work one-on-one with the child or in a small group, with the goal of increasing the child’s development trajectory or rate of learning. Zanshin Kids operates out of North Toronto Early Learning Centre in mid-town Toronto.
Yasuko is a Social Play Specialist. She helps children and adults develop social skills incorporating play, yoga, and meditation. She is a graduate of the 95 Hour Young Yoga Masters program.
Yasuko will be a special guest speaker in the Inclusive Yoga Module and will share her favorite yoga activities and strategies. Yasuko is on a mission to make sure that every teacher remembers that all children want to be part of the fun, and there is always a way to include everyone!
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Lead Trainer: Aruna Kathy Humphrys
Firstly, Aruna is the proud Founder, Director, and Lead Trainer of Young Yoga Masters. Furthermore, she has developed a program to help experienced Yoga Teachers offer a 200 Hour Teacher Training because she dreams of a day when kids yoga will lead to teens getting their first yoga teacher training! This program is called Ambassador Yoga.
After a first career in social work, Aruna took her first yoga teacher training in 1998 and has been teaching full-time yoga teacher since 2000. She has taught thousands of classes including kids yoga, family yoga, yoga camps, mom’s and tots yoga, and even taught yoga at one Montessori School for 18 years!
Aruna is the author of The Frog Yoga Alphabet Kids Yoga Teacher Training Double Pack and Yoga Man vs. The Stressor: Yoga for Boys Teacher Training Manual, and the award-winning Young Yoga Masters blog (the world’s first blog covering kids yoga exclusively). Aruna has over 200 testimonials from happy adult clients for her Kids Yoga Teacher Training, a Registered Children’s Yoga School.
Once upon a time Aruna lived in an Ashram for six years. She is an experienced 500 Hour Registered Yoga Teacher. Now she lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and outside of yoga she enjoys singing, ukulele playing, nature, and technology.
Read more about Aruna’s Personal Story here.
Here’s Aruna using the Frog Yoga Colouring Pages for Halloween:
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There is still time to register for the Kids Yoga Teacher Summer Certification.
Come and join with a powerful community for personal and professional growth!
