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New, Exciting Changes to Meet Your Needs

A Special Announcement:

After receiving numerous requests, I’m putting out the welcome mat on a new Kids Yoga Teacher Training and I’m proud to officially launch the Young Yoga Masters, Registered Children’s Yoga School!

Give Kids the Tools of Yoga

I must confess, it is a big relief to make this announcement about expanding the training.  Trying to “do it all” in one session was getting difficult. Not to mention, it didn’t feel very yogic rushing to fit it all in. So after suspending training over the summer, Young Yoga Masters is back and better than ever before with a 95 Hour Training.

What Does Full Certification Give You that a Shorter Training Doesn’t?

Here are the new elements we’re proud to offer:

  • Internationally Recognized Certification: Meeting the standard of 95 hours means you don’t rush through your experience trying to fit everything into one session. You have time, time to cover everything you need to know about teaching children yoga.
  • Run a Class Smoothly: You’ll take home tons more resources to use in your classes. The training also now includes: yoga in the classroom, inclusive yoga, the business side of getting yoga classes, tons of new resources including yoga books, yoga cards, posters, dvd’s, and much more. Can you imagine trying to fit all this into one session?
  • Start Making a Difference by Actually Teaching Children IN THE TRAINING: You’ll be able to keep kids captivated because you’ll get experience teaching real children. 18 hours experience to be exact. When you start your own classes there will be no surprises.

If You Get Kids Yoga Training,
Don’t You Want Certification Approved by International Standards?

Not only do you get a quality training, tons of resources to take home, and two trainers to guide you, you also get a diploma from an internationally recognized Children’s Yoga School.

 

3 Things to Look for in Kids Yoga Teacher Training to Enhance Your Credibility:

 

If you are considering what to look for in Certification, I suggest you look at these standards:

  • Does it give you a Children’s Yoga Certification recognized by Yoga Alliance?
  • Does it also give you tons of experience teaching yoga to children?
  • Does it give you more time to truly explore and integrate the training or does it cram everything into a short time so you won’t remember it?

The new Young Yoga Masters training meets these standards, and more. You’re invited to take a look at program in the new Young Yoga Masters Registered Children’s Yoga School now.

Get inspired and Get Certified Training

My goals was to design this training for those who want to take their kids yoga to the next level.  You’ll be rewarded with hugs and smiles from the children you teach.  You’ll be on a career path that makes you feel like you’re doing something worthwhile, and you’ll have the Certification to advance your goals.

Take a look at our new Kids Yoga Teacher Training now! Training resumes in November.

If you have any comments or questions on Kids Yoga Certification, I would love to answer them in the comments or feel free to e-mail me.

Yours truly,

Aruna

[email protected]

P.S.  you’ll also see that this training is offered in Modules.  Each Module can be taken individually or as part of the full Certification.  See the details of the Modules here.

New Standards in Kids Yoga Teacher Training

With the launch of my kids yoga – printable teacher training package many parents and teachers have been happy to get their hands on teaching tools for their kids yoga classes.  By offering a training download, teachers can learn from home. It saves time, money, travel, you don’t have to get a babysitter, and so on.

Kids Yoga Training - is a weekend enough?

Now according to the brand new childrens’ yoga standards introduced by Yoga Alliance in the USA only 8 hours of kids yoga training can be non-contact hours.  The new standard in the USA is 95 hours of kids yoga training.

Still, these standards are voluntary! As far as I know at this time anyone can legally teach yoga (please double check this in your country).  There are no government regulations for yoga, the few attempts at regulations have failed.  There are industry standards, but it is up to each teacher whether they will comply with or  join an alliance or association.

What Makes a Kids Yoga Teacher?

I’m a registered yoga teacher with IKYTA (for Kundalini Yoga teachers).   We seem to be among the strictest of the yoga regulations – not only do we have to take the 200 or 500 hour training, we also pledge to be a vegetarian and abstain from alcohol to be a teacher.

When I started teaching kids yoga over 10 years ago, there were no universal standards, even for adult yoga.  There weren’t any 95 hour kids yoga training courses.  They didn’t exist.  After I did my adult training I had about 30 hours of kids yoga training in total spread over four years.  The rest I learned from books.  Which is why I also offer down-loadable trainings.  It worked for me!

So I keep going back and forth on how I feel about this new 95 hour training requirement.

Is Yoga Teacher Training a Money Grab?

It could be easy to fill 95 hours of training – but does a new teacher really need this much training to teach kids yoga?  Is it worth paying hundreds of dollars a year to register Young Yoga Masters as a training school with Yoga Alliance?  Can students afford the extra tuition?

New Standard in Childrens Yoga from Yoga Alliance (USA)

This is where yoga has arrived at today, standards for a practice that existed for 5000 years without them.  Take a look at this 95 hour outline on the Yoga Alliance USA Website:

Curriculum must incorporate training hours in the following educational categories:

  • General Background in the Specialty Area:  12 contact hours
  • Techniques Training/Practice:  20 contact hours
  • Teaching Methodology:  15 contact hours
  • Anatomy and Physiology:  10 contact hours
  • Yoga Philosophy, Lifestyle and Ethics for Children’s Yoga Teachers: 12 contact hours
  • Practicum: 18 hours
  • Remaining Hours (8 hours)

Total: 95 Hours,  Total Contact Hours: 87,  Additional Teaching Outside Curriculum: 30 hours

Tell us what you think of the new standards:

What do you think of the new 95 hour childrens yoga training standard from Yoga Alliance USA?

Yoga Teachers: Are you going to get the training? Do you feel you need it?  Do you already have it?

Parents: What training do you want to be able to do yoga with your kids at home?

School Teachers/Educators: What training do you want to be able to do yoga with your children in the classroom or daycare?   Would you feel more comfortable with a longer training?

Everyone: If the government doesn’t require it, do you think it is necessary to train 95 hours?

I’d love to hear what you think of this topic that kinda/sorta affects us all!

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