Updated Dec. 5, 2025
How can a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Certification help you as a Kids’ Yoga Teacher?
If you want to level up in your kids’ yoga teacher career, you might have considered registering with Yoga Alliance as a Registered Children’s Yoga Teacher (RCYT).
Yoga Alliance Requirements for Kids Yoga Teachers
To register with Yoga Alliance as a RCYT you need these two training requirements:
- 200-Hour Adult Yoga Teacher Certificate (with an RYS)
- 95-Hour Children’s Yoga Teacher Certificate (with an RCYS)
Plus these additional teaching requirements:
- Has at least 30 hours of teaching experience in children’s yoga since completing training with an RCYS
You can see by these requirements, you do not need to have your RCYT designation to teach yoga to children. If you did, you’d never be able to get the 30 hours of experience.
5 Reasons People get the RCYT Designation:
- To have the most recognized yoga industry qualifications for children’s yoga teachers.
- To deepen your understanding of yoga through two lenses: the children’s training and the adult training.
- When the children you teach become tweens and teens, you can give them a more age appropriate yoga experience and help them earn their yoga teacher certificate.
- To get discounts on your insurance and other yoga perks only available to those registered with Yoga Alliance.
- After teaching for a while, you may want to become a trainer and open your own Children’s Yoga School with Yoga Alliance.
Consider the 200 Hour Training
Here’s how it works:
Registration is open for the 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Certification with the Ambassador Yoga training. Check out all the details here:
