Kids Yoga Teacher Training
Become a Children’s Yoga Teacher
Navigating your way through all the types of training to teach yoga and mindfulness to children can be confusing and Young Yoga Masters is here to help you get the right training from the start.
Young Yoga Masters provides you with training to become a confident and successful teacher with a Certification you can be proud to put on your resume.
Who is This Training for?
- School Teachers, Supply Teachers, and Principals
- Early Childhood Educators, Teaching Assistants, and Managers
- Yoga Teachers
- Parents, Aunts, Uncles, Grandparents
- Youth Leaders and Community Leaders
- Doctors, Pediatricians, and Health Promoters
- all those who care for children’s physical and emotional health and well-being
Choose Young Yoga Masters to mentor and support you on your path to teaching kids yoga.
I absolutely loved my training with Young Yoga Masters. I already had considerable amount of training and experience working with children and yoga before coming to this training. Even so I was blown away by the scope of the training, the amount of material we were able to cover, the huge number of new ideas, inspiration and resources I was given access to, and the friendliness and knowledge of the lead trainers. I would recommend this program 100%.
Cindy S., Sunbeam Family Yoga Studio
Young Yoga Masters Graduate 2019
Get Your Kids Yoga Teacher Training
The Kids Yoga Teacher Certification is offered to you in Modules. You receive a Certificate from Young Yoga Masters for each Module you complete. You may take as many Modules of training as you wish and start teaching!
Each Module of training also counts towards your 96 Hour Children’s Yoga Teacher Certificate with our Yoga Alliance Registered Children’s Yoga School*. When you complete all Modules you also receive a 96 Hour Certificate that counts towards your Registered Children’s Yoga Teacher designation.
What’s Included?
The 8 modules may be taken in any order:
- Yoga Literacy featuring the Frog Yoga Alphabet (16 Hour Certificate),
- Yoga and Mindfulness for Children (8 Hour Certificate),
- Chakras for Children (4 Hour Certificate),
- Family Yoga including Adult/Child and Family Yoga (4 Hour Certificate),
- Themes and Dreams featuring the Kids Yoga Class Creator (16 Hour Certificate),
- Inclusive Yoga for Special Needs (16 Hour Certificate),
- Mindfulness for Children (16 Hour Certificate)
- Mastermind: Curriculum Design and Business Planning (16 Hour Certificate). The Mastermind module does not contain kids yoga activities. We recommend you have completed a minimum of 32 Hours of Kids Yoga Training before taking the Mastermind Module.
Upon completion of all modules you receive a 96 Hour Certificate from Young Yoga Masters, Yoga Alliance Registered Children’s Yoga School.
What’s the Format?
Due to the Yoga Alliance Online training provisions changing on Dec. 31, 2023, the self-paced training will be closing at the end of this year.
Self-Paced Option Ends Dec. 31, 2023
This is the final opportunity to take the training in a self-paced format with the option to get motivation and support from your trainers and cohort.
This training includes:
- 83 hours of replays of a cohort completing the training. You’ll get to know the participants in the training videos, hear their insights, experiences, and learn from their questions. The training is expertly taught by your lead trainers. These hours include time for you to complete the worksheets and activities from the manual. You complete this training at your own pace.
- 12 hours planning, teaching, and reflecting on your children’s yoga practicum classes. This can be completed on your own or with a the final cohort.
- 1 hour live Zoom check-in individually or as a group with Lead Trainer, Aruna. You’ll share insights from your practice teaching and cover any questions you have before you graduate.
2024 Training Format
In 2024, Yoga Alliance requires that 95 Hour Registered Children’s Yoga Schools include a minimum of 14 hours of live training. These can be live in-person or live online. We are currently updating our delivery for 2024. If you want more live training, stay on the waiting list to get updates on the 2024 programs.
The teaching practicum component of this course was so valuable as it allowed us to see the curriculum “brought to life” with real kids, in addition to time to reflect on the day’s teachings/learnings both on our own and with our peers.
Becky B., Registered children’s yoga teacher
Young Yoga Masters graduate 2019
What’s in the Training?
Kids Yoga Teacher Certification
Young Yoga Masters is a Yoga Alliance Registered Children’s Yoga School. The training is designed to offer you a lot of flexibility and to award you a Certificate for each module you complete. Each Module also counts towards your 96 Hour Certificate.
You can take the modules in any order based on your interests and needs.
Each Certificate reveals important aspects of teaching yoga to children to prepare you to be a confident teacher. You’ll discover effective ways to teach yoga to children (ages 2-15 years).
Yoga Literacy
16 Hour Kids Yoga Teacher Certificate
Get the Frog Yoga Alphabet resources, and learn how to teach yoga poses to youth of all ages. These resources will likely be among your most loved, go-to props for your classes. You get them in PDF format, which includes Flash Card size alphabet, Full Page Colour Alphabet, Black and White Colouring Pages of each size, Activity Sheets and Games, English Alphabet Poster and the new French Alphabet Poster. You’ll enhance your confidence and make poses fun and safe. Includes partner yoga, modifications for all ages, as well as 22 innovative and original alphabet and storytelling activities that promote kinesthetic learning, learning through physical activity. A great resource for schools, yoga birthday parties, and more. Full Details Here.
Kids Yoga and Mindfulness
(5 – 12 Years)
8 Hour Kids Yoga Teacher Certificate
Discover the fun of teaching Kids Yoga in this dynamic, playful, and comprehensive workshop. This workshop is packed with engaging stories, songs, art, games, tips and tricks for teaching yoga and mindfulness to school-age kids. An excellent workshop as an introduction or a refresher for your kids’ yoga toolkit. Includes activities using storybooks, stickers, and PDF Colouring pages. (storybooks and stickers are not included, you can use your own or purchase separately).
Family Yoga
4 Hour Kids Yoga Teacher Certificate
Teach yoga to families using ready-to-teach lesson plans for Mommy and Me Yoga and Family Yoga that build strong family bonds. This module shows you how to create positive experiences in yoga class that encourage children to connect with parents and parents to connect with kids.
Chakras for Children
4 Hour Kids Yoga Teacher Certificate
Teach school-age children to build on their innate talents while exploring the Chakras as tools for Social and Emotional Learning. Come explore the Chakras and how to teach them to children using the Young Yoga Masters Chakra activity book and handouts that you get in PDF format. Full Details Here.
Themes and Dreams
16 Hour Kids Yoga Teacher Certificate
The original Certificate that started it all. The Themes and Dreams Certificate explains Yoga Philosophy and awakens the imagination – no matter what your age. This Certificate includes tested lesson plans for both children and teens. The Kids Yoga Class Creator (and Teen Yoga Class Creator) give you an intuitive lesson plan template to dream up your own class plans and keep them organized. This Certificate is highly recommended for those wanting mindfulness activities, songs, and engaging stories that build self-esteem, inner peace, and happiness. Using the Amazing Breathing Ball, music, stories, and props we focus on how to gain cooperation in your classes (props are not included in the self-paced training). Full Details Here.
The Themes and Dreams module has helped me to go forth with my teaching, incorporating analogies, and creating meaningful themes into kids and teens yoga. I feel very blessed and I am grateful for this learning experience.
Johana, graduate, 2022
Mindfulness for Children
16 Hour Kids Yoga Teacher Certificate:
Enhance children’s health with Mindfulness activities, movement, and the tremendously popular Meditations for Growing Minds resources with 10 tracks to play in your classes including “Castle of Clouds”and“Kidease”. In this module you will connect to the practice of Mindfulness and learn to bring Mindfulness to Children. You’ll explore effective activities and props that get kids’ attention and help them be strong and steady when doing yoga poses. Full Details Here.
Inclusive Yoga
16 Hour Kids Yoga Teacher Certificate
Accommodate children with a variety of needs in your classes! All children come with a unique set of needs. This Certificate contains insight and effective tools to bring yoga to all children, especially kids that are not always motivated by typical kids yoga techniques. Includes Yoga Man vs The Stressor Teacher Training Manual and Resources, yoga colouring pages, games, and activities that help kids identify stress and reduce it. A great resource for teachers and parents of kids with different needs and for helping boys see that yoga is not just for girls! Featuring special guest teachers Yasuko Tanaka, who specializes in teaching children on the Autism Spectrum, and Raven McRorie, a Toronto school teacher and specialist in equity studies. Full Details Here.
Mastermind:
Curriculum Design and Business Planning for Kids Yoga Teachers
16 Hour Kids Yoga Teacher Certificate
This is an advanced module designed for teachers to work on their pricing, packages, curriculum design, and business planning.
Your lead trainer will guide you and provide feedback as you develop your plan to start teaching, and participants will help one another with ideas and feedback as well.
You’ll begin your action plan for finding new classes and explore teaching specialty classes like yoga camps. You’ll examine effective advertising, networking, and marketing strategies.
NOTE: There are no children’s yoga activities in this training. It is recommended that participants have completed 32 Hours of kids yoga training or have experience teaching children’s yoga for the curriculum design portion of the training. Full Details Here
What Makes the Young Yoga Master’s Training Special?
You are in the right place if you want:
- Interactive Training that You Can Complete at Your Own Pace: You’ll learn from our past training, where you’ll hear people ask questions and have conversations to get an interactive training experience so you’ll know exactly how to teach kids Yoga and Mindfulness. You’ll know how to start the class, finish the class, and everything in between so you can teach for years without running out of ideas. We hold nothing back!
- Experience: You’ll get experience during the training observing and teaching actual children in the practicum. You’ll also learn from others who have taught the same classes. You’ll feel more confident to teach after the training because you will teach kids as part of the training. We think this confidence will help you achieve your teaching goals faster.
- Comprehensive Manuals and Printable Resources: You’ll receive comprehensive manuals in PDF format. They document all the activities you learn in the training so you can refer to them for years to come, for games, songs, and insights into teaching. You’ll also get PDF’s of the activity pages to print out for the kids you teach.
- Certificate of Completion: You’re awarded a Certificate for each module you complete that also counts towards your 96 Hour Certificate from our Yoga Alliance Registered Children’s Yoga School (note: see our FAQ’s for more info on what is needed to register with Yoga Alliance).
- Ongoing support and mentoring before and after: You have the option to stay connected when you want, with our Free Monthly Kids Yoga Teacher Check-In zoom meeting, Facebook group, or you can Email or call and talk to a trainer about questions you have before or after you graduate.
Not sure what kind of Kids Yoga Training you need? Read the Young Yoga Masters Guide to Kids Yoga Teacher Training.
Stay connected with your fellow kids yoga teachers from your training and your trainer. You’ll be part of our exclusive Facebook Group, only for those in the training. You can also attend the FREE monthly mini-training.
If its time for you to achieve your goals of teaching Yoga and Mindfulness to children in the classroom, living room, or as a part-time or full-time career, Young Yoga Masters can give you the skill and Certification you need.
The Young Yoga Masters program gives you experience and confidence with each Certificate, so you can go out and teach even after one module. One graduate told us:
I have earned back more than the tuition!
After taking only one of the modules, I felt confident enough to approach schools to start teaching. I was teaching children after only one weekend of training. Eight months later, by my last module of training, I have taught over 150 kids yoga classes in daycare centres and have been paid for my teaching. I have already earned back more the tuition for the Certification.
– Z.J. Young Yoga Masters Graduate, 2013
What do I need to take the Training?
- Bring Your Experience: It is recommended, but not required, that you have taken at least 40 adult yoga classes before you register so you have a base of knowledge of yoga. However, experience working with children, parenting, or teaching is also an asset. If you have not done many yoga classes, do as many classes as possible before the training starts.
- Learn through an Interactive Training and Practicum: In the Self-Paced Training you’ll be watching recordings of the live-zoom training. You’ll hear other students ask questions, discuss topics, and share insights, just like you would if you were in the live training. You will also observe practicum classes with children that are taught by your Trainers. These classes are unedited, so you get to see what real classes are like. You’ll get an interactive training, while still being able to watch at your own pace.
- Join a Cohort: connect with others who are also taking the training. Get the amount of support you prefer to graduate by December 31, 2023.
- Get Started Teaching with One Module Certificate in Teaching Kids Yoga: Take one Certificate and you’ll explore a unique facet of teaching kids yoga. Each course gives you a Certificate and tools to start teaching right away.
- Earn Your 96 Hour Certificate with a Yoga Alliance Registered Children’s Yoga School Certification* If you choose, you can continue with your professional development by earning all 6 Certificates. Together the 6 Certificates meet the 95 Hours of specialty training that Yoga Alliance requires of a Yoga Teacher to become a Registered Children’s Yoga Teacher.
- Have Questions? Visit Our Frequently Asked Questions Page at this link or send us an email: info @ youngyogamasters.com
- Fill in the Registration Here: If this program sounds right for you, go to the Registration Page to start your training.
* Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT’s) who successfully complete 95 hour training with Young Yoga Masters, which is a Registered Children’s Yoga School (RCYS), may apply to Yoga Alliance for the Registered Children’s Yoga Teacher (RCYT) designation. After completing training with a RCYS, Yoga Alliance has additional requirements that must be met. See details here.
Registration is closing on Dec. 31, 2023
Become a Kids Yoga Teacher
Inspire Children and
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