Kids Yoga Teacher Training
Teaching kids yoga at a community center.
Teaching kids yoga at a community center.
Kids Yoga Teacher Training – Course Description
Young Yoga Masters Certificate Program
For Health, Happiness, and Creativity
This Kids Yoga Teaching Training course gets you ready to teach kids yoga with a tested six week kids yoga curriculum filled with yoga and activities that kids love. You will also discover additional poses, games, meditations, and songs to build the skills and confidence to design your own classes.
This course will equip you to spread the health and joy of yoga with children at home, in daycares, studios, or in the classroom.
New Courses starting in 2010:
- 18 Hour Certificate - 12 Hour Training plus 6 Hour Co-Op Training (6 weeks): Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Starts Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 12 Hour Training Weekend: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Friday, April 30 – Sunday, May 2, 2010
For Course Hours, Pricing and Registration Information Click Here
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To inquire about bringing the Young Yoga Masters Kids Yoga Teacher Training to your city contact:
Aruna@YoungYogaMasters.com
or call 416-944-2888
Who Should Attend the Kids Yoga Teacher Training Course
Attention: Those who want to give kids the life-long rewards of healthy bodies and happy minds.
- Yoga Teachers
- School Teachers
- E.C.E.’s (Early Childhood Educators)
- Doctors, Therapists, and Kids Specialists
- Specialty Kids Teachers
- Teaching Assistants
- Parents
- Grandparents
- Those who work with kids
- And all those who love and care for kids
Teaching Kids Yoga Training is for you!
About the Kids Yoga Teacher Training Course:
Connect with kids from toddlers to tweens with a meaningful yoga practice.
Young Yoga Masters is a unique Kids Yoga Teacher Training program that will give you the tools to explain yoga and meditation to kids. It is for those who are just starting out and also for those who teach kids regularly and want to rejuvenate their lesson plans with inspiring ideas and activities.
For Developing Focus & Keeping Imagination Alive
Teaching Kids Yoga features age old postures and meditations that can build self-awareness and confidence. The stories from Ancient Secrets of Success for Today’s World by Tulshi Sen inspire teachers and kids alike.
Take your classes from good to awesome! In this weekend workshop you will discover:
- Classroom Management: How to gain kid’s cooperation, work with groups, and build passion for yoga,
- Child Development: An overview of the ages and stages of children’s abilities and development,
- Yoga Fundamentals: The fundamentals of yoga and meditation and how to present them to kids,
- A six week class curriculum based on Ancient Secrets of Success for Today’s World by Tulshi Sen – a tested program that inspires kids, filled with inspiring kids yoga, meditations, games and stories. This curriculum tells you exactly how to introduce yoga to kids in a way they can understand and apply. It will give you the tools to create a meaningful yoga curriculum to teach in your kids classes;
- How to develop your own kids yoga classes for different ages, time frames, and settings from the living room to the classroom;
- Quick Yoga: Quick, everyday tools for calming and centering for kids and adults;
- Rejuvenation: An amazing course to connect with others and nourish your soul. Practical and personal development that’s full of imagination and fresh ideas.
Course includes:
- Teaching Kids Yoga Workbook: a binder with over 60 pages of handouts, class development resources, and yoga poses.
- Six Week Course Curriculum: a spiral bound manual with 6 complete classes to start teaching now. Includes weekly themes and daily variations, activities, games, and meditations.
- Recommended Resources: Access to the list of the most useful tools Aruna has found over 10 years teaching kids yoga and being a full time yoga teacher and entrepreneur. Including her “Children’s Favorites” playlist of songs, business development books, and her recommendations for teachers of what to buy first and what is a waste of money.
- Kids Yoga Class Creator: a tool that guides you through developing your own curriculum and organizes you for future classes.
- Certificate of Completion: from Young Yoga Masters – Kids Yoga Teacher Training (must attend all hours to receive full certificate).
Meet Your Teacher:
Aruna Kathy Humphrys (Santokh Kaur) began teaching kids over 10 years ago. She has taught kids in daycares, afterschool programs, community centres, Montessori Schools, conferences and retreats. She produced and directed the Kids Yoga DVD Let the Children Teach You Yoga. Aruna served as the Manager in Residence of Guru Ram Das Ashram in Toronto from 1999 to 2005. She has completed the Radiant Child Yoga Program Levels I, II, & III and has been a certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher since 1998.
Aruna is a trainer of kids yoga teachers and is a pioneer of Kids Yoga based on the teachings of Tulshi Sen author of the life changing book Ancient Secrets of Success for Today’s World. Aruna has studied with Tulshi Sen, her Mentor since 2000.
Inspired to help teachers build their confidence to teach kids, Aruna has authored over one hundred free articles on her blog on Young Yoga Masters named in the Top 50 Yoga and Meditation Blogs, and listed among 5 Canadian Health and Fitness Blogs that Inspire in Canadian Living. Through her blog, she has been a resourse for teachers from all over the world to help them share the joy of yoga with children.
Join Aruna for an Amazing Workshop and start Teaching Kids Yoga! An experience you won’t want to miss.
- 18 Hour Certificate: 12 Hour Training plus 6 Hour Co-Op Training (6 weeks): Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Starts Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 12 Hour Training Weekend: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Friday, April 30 – Sunday, May 2, 2010
For Course Hours, Pricing and Registration Information Click Here
Testimonials from Participants
Kids Yoga Teacher Training Builds Community
You Shared Your Lesson Plans – Full of Creativity
“I really appreciate the generosity of your approach. You shared your
lesson plans that are full of creativity and gave so many excellent tips and ideas for making class
fun and helping kids get the most out of them. I really liked the experience
of doing sample lessons and the organization of the materials.”
Antoinette Falco
Educational Consultant
It Was Worth The Trip
“I love the way you make big/deep concepts fun and easily accessible to children.
I have learned tools and have ideas to share with my kids classes and my adult classes too.
I am leaving inspired and eager to share. I have a new vision for
where I would like the direction of my kids yoga teaching to go.
Thank you! It was worth the trip.”
Tania Frechette
Yoga Teacher, Ottawa, www.yogaland.ca
We Can Go Out and Work with a Class Right Away
“The gathering of people who teach and work with kids was so useful.
Building yoga into the early learning environments via the teachers is a GREAT GIFT!
With this course we can go out and work with a class right away.”
Catherine Boote
Educational Consultant, Early Leaning Language Acquisition
Mother of 2 “mini yogis”
I Was Pleasantly Surprised by the Amount of Information…I Got My Money’s Worth
“I’m excited to share this experience with my students – they’ll love it!
I especially appreciated the ideas provided for yoga games, art, partner yoga, and group yoga.
I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of information, handouts,
and ideas that were provided. I really feel like I got my money’s worth.
Thanks Aruna! I’m so glad I decided to take your course.”
Jen Wedgewood
School Teacher
You Shared Things that Worked and Things to Avoid
“I will use the techniques in my work with very anxious children.
Santokh (Aruna) has personal insight into the responses of children
and willingness to share things that worked and things that did not.”
Dr. Leslie Cohen
Educational Consultant
So Complete, So Informative!
“I found the entire course useful and I’m thrilled to have the training manual.
It was so meticulously put together, so complete, so informative!”
Cynthia Cooper
Artist/Educator
New Courses starting in 2010:
- 18 Hour Certificate: 12 Hour Training plus 6 Hour Co-Op Training (6 weeks): Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Starts Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 12 Hour Training Weekend: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Friday, April 30 – Sunday, May 2, 2010
For Course Hours, Pricing and Registration Information Click Here
Enter your e-mail to get all the information on Kids Yoga delivered to you.
To inquire about bringing the Young Yoga Masters Kids Yoga Teacher Training to your city contact:
Aruna@YoungYogaMasters.com or call 416-944-2888.
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