Would you like the best job in the world? Train to teach yoga to toddlers, creating a business that supports littles ones and their families, and share in the joy that is teaching yoga to young children. This Yoga Alliance Professionals accredited specialist training will enable you to teach fun, authentic and engaging yoga classes to children aged between 12 months up to the age of 5 years, covering toddler & family yoga classes and yoga to children in a nursery or pre-school setting. This business positive training also ensures you have the knowledge to run a yoga business teaching toddler yoga.
HOW THE COURSE IS DELIVERED
This innovative, flexible, online course is delivered through a creative mix of:
*What is Voxer? - Voxer is a free voice messaging app, where you can ask Amy questions as you train and receive immediate support!
COURSE C (syllabus)
Module 1: Toddler, Pre-school and Parent Yoga Classes
• Developmental stages and movement in children from 12 months to the age of 5 years.
• Understanding and managing normal toddler behaviour and exploring the ways in which a toddler learns and views the world.
• Teaching asana and movement to a toddler, from crawlers, early walkers to confident movers, including use of flashcards, stories, books, and songs.
• Props and resources for toddler yoga, including scarves, beanbags, shakers, balls, parachutes, and creative use of yoga blocks and bolsters!
• Cultivating relaxation, story time, songs for breathing, and the use of mantra and sound.
• Incorporating parents and carers into classes.
• Class plans and sequences for Toddler & Parent yoga.
• Class management, managing the unexpected, and health & safety.
Module 2: Teaching in nurseries and other childcare settings
• Adapting the Toddler & Parent yoga class for just children within a childcare setting.
• Teaching asana and movement to toddlers and pre-schoolers, adapting for the older child.
• Cultivating relaxation, story time, songs for breathing, and the use of mantra and sound for pre-schoolers.
• Class plans and sequences for children aged 2 to 5 years.
• Class management, managing the unexpected and health & safety when working within childcare settings.
• Early Years Foundation Stage and Yoga.
Module 3: The Business of running classes and working in childcare settings
• Setting up a class, suitable venues, class times, payment structures, and marketing made easy!
• Policies and procedures of childcare settings.
• Child protection, and Enhanced Disclosures (CRB checks), our responsibility as yoga teachers.
TIME COMMITMENT
You can join the course anytime and it takes between 2 to 4 months to work through the course and complete assignments, dedicating roughly 3 hours a week, however some students take longer or shorter time depending on their other time commitments. You are encouraged to complete the course within 6 months
