Yoga For Life offers a foundational course on teaching children and adolescents yoga. This training incorporates the necessary tools for effectively teaching fun and safe yoga poses, basics of philosophy for young minds, and how to inspire the love for movement and caring for their own minds and bodies. This course also includes the power of language in the classroom, tips and tricks for conducting your yoga space, creative lesson plan ideas, and introduction to working with children with special needs.  This course teaches tools for life.

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This training is designed for:

• Teachers

• Social Workers

• Therapists

• Camp Counselors

• Caregivers

• Yoga Teachers

• Parents

• Anyone who works with children on a regular basis

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No yoga experience required.

It is helpful to be familiar with basic yoga poses

before enrolling in this course.

It is suggested anyone signing up for this course has

participated in at least 6 yoga classes in the last 6 months.

No prerequisite required.
 

All students will receive a certificate of completion after teaching

a sample children's yoga class observed and approved by Ziya and Jacky.

Yoga Teachers registered under Yoga Alliance may receive 25 CEU credits.

Teaching position with YFL may be considered after completion of training, but is not guaranteed. 

After completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Create and lead safe yoga classes for children and teens

• Be able to modify a yoga class for any environment (classroom, chair, partner)

• Be able to modify yoga poses for different abilities (injury, disability)

• Learn to create fun, inspiring themes for your classes

• Understand the importance of living your yoga

• Have a basic understanding of how to work with children with special needs

• Confidently teach children and teens they can do yoga anywhere, any time, giving them tools for life.