Kids Yoga Teacher Training (Spring 2024)
May 2 - June 2
$850
Kids Yoga Teacher Training with Alexandra Rossi
Lighting the torch of mindfulness in the hearts of youth through yoga and meditation is one of the most powerful and empowering ways to shape our world.
The Kids Yoga Teacher Training at Folk is for parents, yoga teachers, school teachers, educators or those working with children 4 to 12 years old. Participants acquire the tools to help children deepen self-awareness and well-being through yoga and mindfulness. Participants explore a personal meditation practice while in training to develop the ability to authentically share both yoga and mindfulness with youth. This training is a unique, mindfulness-based program that will prepare you to teach yoga to youth and will cover topics such as working with children with ADD and ADHD.
The Kids Yoga Teacher Training was built on the philosophy that children learn best when playing. The program focuses on deepening a personal mindfulness practice, bringing yoga to children in their own words and understanding the neuroscience of child development. This training prepares students to become kids yoga teachers by giving them the tools to understand children, to communicate with them, to craft unique mindfulness exercises and safe yoga sequences and to launch a sustainable career.
Stages of mental and emotional development throughout childhood
Communication skills to interact with parents, schools and developmental specialists
Yoga poses for children in their own words
Basics of mindfulness, exercises and games
Teaching skills for a young audience
Pediatric anatomy
Class observation and teaching practicums
Schedule:
Weekend 1
Thursday, May 2nd | 6-9pm (Virtual via Zoom)
Friday, May 3rd | 6-9pm (Virtual via Zoom)
Saturday, May 4th | 9am-5pm (In person at Folk NOPA Studio)
Sunday, May 5th | 9am-5pm (In person at Folk NOPA Studio)
Weekend 2
Thursday, May 30th | 6-9pm (Virtual via Zoom)
Friday, May 31st | 6-9pm (Virtual via Zoom)
Saturday, June 1st | 9am-5pm (In person at Folk NOPA Studio)
Sunday, June 2nd | 9am-5pm (In person at Folk NOPA Studio)
Required Books:
*Child’s Mind will be read throughout the training; Yoga for Children will serve as a reference guide. If you can purchase these through your local bookstores, please do!
Price:
Tuition is $850 or $750 if enrolled by April 18th, 2024.
Gain unlimited access to all Folk trainings, workshops, and classes with our Yoga School All Access Membership!
This course provides 45 Elective Contact Hours for our Folk 300 Hour Program (45 Yoga Alliance® CEUs). Please note that to receive Yoga Alliance’s Registered Children’s Yoga Teacher (RCYT) Certification, both the Kids and the Teens Trainings must be taken.
If you’re interested in our 300 Hour Teacher Training, CLICK HERE.
