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Professional Essentials for Teaching Kids Yoga

I feel a little embarrassed that when I first started teaching yoga, I had trouble with pacing.

I would run out of time and cut the savasana to 2 minutes. Then overcompensate the next class and run out of poses and give a 15-minute relaxation!

It took me a couple of years to get really good at pacing. There were fewer standards when I took my first teacher training in 1998 and I did not learn about pacing.

When I look back on it, my lack of training also made it difficult for my students. They didn’t know what to expect.  To create a professional class, you want students to feel safe, and one way they feel safe is with predictability.

Rounding Out Your Training

Pacing falls under “Teaching Methodology” in the Professional Essentials category in a 200-Hour Teacher Training.  In a Yoga Alliance Registered Training, at least 50 of the 200 Hours go in the Professional Essentials category.

This includes pacing, sequencing, cueing, and other important “Teaching Methodology” competencies.

While Teaching Methodology is covered in the children’s yoga for 33 hours, you will cover an additional 50 hours in this topic in the adult yoga teacher training.  It is thorough.

In this video, Claire and I talk about the Ambassador Yoga Training and the Teaching Methodology competencies. 

We talk about what it is, why it’s important, and one of the fun activities we use to make the training experiential and not lecturing.

Check out what it’s all about here:

Take Your Teaching to The Next Level

In the September 2022 Monthly Mini-Training we’re going to look at the different levels of certification for children’s yoga teachers and what each one means.

Why is the 200 Hour Training Important? The bottom line is it means you have so much more training as a yoga teacher and with the Children’s Yoga Training you can qualify for the RCYT designation.
What your learn in the 96-Hour Children’s YTT and 200-Hour YTT: A Comparison Chart looking at the Yoga Alliance Core Curriculum

Every profession requires professional development and most yoga teachers, whether children or adults, take training to maintain their skills and their motivation for teaching.

Come check it out on September 20, 2022, at noon to 1 pm EST, where we will talk about the training you need to be a Kids Yoga Teacher.

Click the button below to register.

REGISTER HERE: FREE MINI TRAINING

Filed Under: Kids Yoga, Teacher Training Tagged With: adult yoga teacher training, lesson plans

Why get a 200-Hour Yoga Certification As A Kids Yoga Teacher

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 Teaching Requirements

  • Has at least 30 hours of teaching experience in children’s yoga since completing training with an RCYS
Yoga Alliance sets standards for Yoga Teachers to voluntarily meet.

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:

5 Reasons to get the RCYT Designation explained
  1. To feel proud of having the highest most recognized qualification for children’s yoga teachers.
  2. To deepen your understanding of yoga with both the 95 our children’s yoga training and the 200 our adult yoga training.
  3. When the children you teach become tweens and teens, you can give them a more age appropriate yoga experience.
  4. To get discounts on your insurance and other younger related perks only available to those with the qualifications.
  5. So you can become a children’s yoga trainer and open your own yoga school with yoga Alliance.

Consider the 200 Hour Training

The trainers talk about what happens in this training and the doors the 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training can open for you as a Children’s Yoga Teacher. We will be the lead trainers for the upcoming Certification starting in September.

You can watch the replay here:

Yoga Alliance’s online training provisions extend until Dec. 31, 2023. This gives you enough time to get your 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Certification over the next year.

Registration is now open for the 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Certification. Check out all the details here:

Become a 200 Hour Trained Yoga Teacher

Filed Under: Business Development, Kids Yoga, Teacher Training Tagged With: adult yoga teacher training, RCYT

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