Happy Little Yogi - Yoga of Awareness Training
A blend of yoga poses and principles which teach adults and children to breathe, tune in with their body and be mindful.
Start your journey to become a certified yoga teacher with our Yoga Alliance professional accredited online and in person 200-hour Yoga teacher certification course. With this course, you will develop all the necessary skills to start teaching yoga professionally with adults and children.
You will learn how to teach, modify, and structure classes for all age groups. Upon successful completion of the course, you will receive an accredited certificate that enables you to teach yoga to all ages.
This course will fully prepare you for a career as a Yoga Teacher by helping you to learn how to plan and deliver group sessions, 1-1 yoga sessions and specialist programmes.
Course Breakdown
Happy Little Yogi Flow, 4-13 yrs – The Happy Little Yogi Flow lays the foundations for the children’s training providing the knowledge that is needed to work with children in all environments.
Happy Little Yogis programme is approved by teachers, and SEND workers, as a programme that teaches children to be happy, courageous, and confident. With fun yoga games, creative cardio workouts, the Happy Little Yogi Flow routines, the breath, meditation, and guided relaxations, it allows children to feel comfortable and happy in their own bodies.
We also work on the brain and nervous system through memory work, meditations and yoga challenges. 40 hrs
Happy Tots, 2-4 yrs – A fun and creative way to allow toddlers the time to connect with their mind and bodies, through yoga play, yoga poses and storytelling, breathing and singing. These sessions are also about bringing connection and closeness between the child and parent/carer. 10hrs |
Teen Yoga, 13 yrs plus – A programme specifically designed for teenagers to help them navigate through life and all its challenges. This course will help teenagers to become aware of their emotions, thoughts and bodies. Building self-esteem, confidence, openness and awareness.
Teens need to feel safe in several areas of their lives; from peer pressure, exam stress, expectations and bullying.
They are also in a phase of physical changes with their body, trying to understand themselves emotionally and mentally, as well as deal with the everyday family life.
Within this yoga course we teach how to create a safe place, how to open the doors to conversation, through yoga, meditation, energy, relaxation, talk circles, crystals, guidance cards and music to allow these young adults to feel relaxed with themselves and those around them. 40hrs
Adult Yoga – The Yoga of Awareness
The areas that are covered within the training:
1) The principles of yoga
2) Yoga flow awareness through asanas and developing self-practice.
3) Mindful awareness through the breath
4) Connection awareness through meditation, celestial meditation and mantra
5) Physical awareness through Anatomy
6) Mindful living, a living practice
7) Sequencing and planning classes
8) Yogic anatomy, chakras & energy
9) How to start your business
The Yoga of Awareness brings forth a growth of character and spirit, nurtures the child within, building confidence and self-esteem, finding a space within where you can feel whole, live authentically, and feel happy in your mind and body. 99hrs
Family yoga can also be taught as all age groups are covered in the above course.
Course Structure:
The Course will take place over a 13-month period. There will be 11 weekend modules taking place on Saturdays and Sundays.
In addition, there will be a requirement to attend the following:
First Aid Training Course
Safeguard Training
Attendance of 25 hours of adult yoga classes
Pre-Requisites for attending the course:
• All students should have a minimum of two years yoga practice. Following application, a zoom call will be organised to go through any questions or queries.
Assessment Criteria:
Happy Little Yogi 20/30 minutes class to the group
Happy Tots 20 minutes group class to the group
Teen Yoga 30-minute class to the group
Adult yoga 45-minute class to the group
Anatomy and Physiology Course Work
Course work of all subjects covered in the course
Final exam, combination of all subjects.
Both trainers Jane Oppegaard and Suzie Bartiromo will deliver this programme.
Jane Oppegaard trained in Kundalini Yoga level 1 in 2008, Childplay Yoga in 2009, level 2 Kundalini in 2012 & 2014, Khalsa Way Pregnancy training in 2016 (pre & post-natal).
Suzie Bartiromo trained in Hatha Yoga in 2013, Kundalini Yoga level 1 in 2019, Ram Das Childrens Training 2019, Happy Little Yogi Flow 2019.
