sharing yoga with kids & young people

In today’s world, young people are just as prone to feeling the stresses and strains of modern day life as the adults around them.

With this in mind, kids’ yoga is becoming a more and more important resource. By sharing yoga with kids, we can offer young people a tool-box bursting full of practical skills they can take out into their lives. We will learn to create spaces where young people feel strong, brave and able to be themselves.

This course has been designed as an introduction to sharing yoga with kids and young people. It will get you thinking about how you can use your existing skills as a yoga teacher to share creative, safe and fun classes with young people.

Sharing Yoga with Kids & Young People is grounded in Nourish’s values of joyful, inclusive & person-centred teaching. We will consider how kids’ yoga can honour the roots of yoga whilst sharing with young people in a accessible and engaging way.

Course Outline

This course can be taken by any teacher wishing to improve their skills in this area as Continuing Professional Development (CPD). The course runs over 3 days from 17-19 September 2021, and combines theory, practice and skills development. It specifically looks at sharing yoga with 3-13 year olds. 

There are limited spaces available. As this course focuses on preparing you to share yoga with kids and young people, live attendance is required. You are able to miss two sessions and a recorded session can be provided for the missed modules only at no further cost. If you need to miss the final session, which includes a teaching practice and feedback session, a catch up session may be be provided at the trainer’s discretion, and will incur an extra charge.

All classes are run by experienced teacher and trainer Becky Varey.

All sessions are delivered online via Zoom. Once the course has finished you will be given access to all recordings for 3 months.

You will be provided with a reading packet prior to the course commencing.

Dates & Topics

Friday 17 September 
10am-1pm – Welcome, practice
3-6pm – The importance of play, basic principles of kids yoga
 
Saturday 18 September
10am-1pm – Childhood development: exploring different age groups and how we can meet their needs     
3-6pm – Meet them where there are: learning how to be creative and flexible in your teaching to fit the needs of the kids in front of you
 
Sunday 19 September
10am-1pmManaging the space & the business of kids yoga: looking at different behavioural management skills and seeing how we can put them to use. Discussing practical ways of getting out there and sharing yoga with young people.
3-6pmTeaching practice & closing

 

Pre-requisites

This course is designed for those who have completed, or are in the process of completing a 200 hour yoga teacher training program. It is especially wonderful for people wanting to share yoga with young people both professionally AND/OR at home with their families. 

Cost

For this training we are offering a scaled pricing system, which enables attendees to pay what feels most appropriate for them. Please note there are NO further discounts available (i.e. no student discounts, etc).

Community Price: £179
Standard Price: £199
Supporter Price: £219

Continuing Professional Development

Upon completion of all sessions, you will be issued with a certificate for 25 hours of CPD. Thi is composed of 18 hours contact time, and 7 hours of non-contact time.