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 Stacey Shanks at stacey@youthyogaschool.com or (812) 455-6740 for more information and registration.

YYS Trainings

Module 1: The Fun-damentals of Teaching Kids Yoga
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Youth Yoga School Training FAQ Sheet

April 20-22, 2012 Owensboro Health Park, Owensboro, KY

Owensboro Training

Youth Yoga School Application

This is the first module that is required for all levels of certification by YYS. The basics, nuts & bolts, of teaching children yoga is in this module. We examine all of the developmental stages of children, how we can apply yoga for each age to make it fun, creative and beneficial, and help you bring your own yoga into the classroom. Watch and participate in the FREE Children’s Yoga Classes live during the training weekend. This super fun module is a must! Check out all of our locations for this module! (19 hrs of Yoga Alliance CEUs available, other CEUs may apply with the outline submitted to your accrediting organization)

Steps:

  1. Send in your application to stacey@youthyogaschool.com
  2. Pick your payment option
  3. Once we have your payment and application, you will receive an e-mail with a password to a private page to find your books and pre-work to complete before the training.

Module 2: Aspire to Inspire- Connecting with Kids

April 14-15, 2012  Yoga 101, 2800 Lincoln Ave., Evansville, Indiana

Learn how to develop curriculum, manage the classroom, communicate with kids, and accommodate special needs.  We will revisit child development concepts so we can truly to aspire to inspire the children we teach. This module is especially helpful for yoga teachers who have less experience teaching children. We will also discuss the business of yoga and have an opportunity to “Ask the Expert” for special situations that can happen while teaching yoga. Once you complete this module, you will Aspire to Inspire all youth in your community! (Please fill out the  application  for this module unless you have attended a different module.)

Youth Yoga School Application

$375

Youth Yoga Weeklong Certification

Coming in July 2012!

Week long Youth Yoga Certification Program in Jamaica  8-3PM Mon-Fri

Includes: 

  •  Fundamentals of youth yoga
    • Child development (who are they)
    • Personal practice and Self awareness(who are you and what is your passion about working with kids)
    • Seat of the teacher
    • Tools, skills, techniques, practice of teaching
    • Observing and practicing teaching (watch us in the beginning of week, they teach at end of week)
    • Thinking on your feet using spontaneity and creativity
    • Practicum teaching of actual children during week
  •  Highlights from remaining modules
    • Curriculum development
    • Connecting with kids, working with individual needs of kids
    • Managing classroom
    • Yoga and Religion
    • Business 101 (marketing, legal overview ie insurance, disclaimers, legal ethics)
    • Working with schools
    • Basic alignment, safety, sequencing, and anatomy
    • SEVA meaning the why you are doing this and larger picture

To complete certification; 2 community classes and 8 (needs to be of varying ages and kids) more classes on their own with mentored supervision and review.

*Includes manual, textbooks, membership in the youth yoga school forum (providing online community support), ongoing mentoring through completion of certification (time limit of four months).

$650, 40 hour training (10 at home)

Peaceful Practices: How to bring yoga into schools

This certification is designed to help those who currently work with children in a variety of settings such as schools, community centers, orphanages, etc.  During this training you will learn how to bring yogic practices into the places where you work with children.

Yoga can help create a sense of peace and inner calm for children.  Within Yoga, there are tools and techniques that you can use to help children learn to focus, soothe themselves, and find a sense of peace.  How much better would your day and their day be, if everyone felt good and whole and peaceful?  Another amazing facet of yoga is that you can learn to bring some of this peace into your world with simple adaptable techniques.

Join us after the school day for a week of training in Peaceful Practices. Not only will you be able to bring peace to the children you work with, you will be able to experience it yourself.

The main focus of this training is for you to experience yoga and how it changes you by making you feel better.  You can only teach what you know, so once you have experienced yoga, we will also discuss how to share it with the children you serve and love.  We will also look at why and how yoga works in the body on a scientific level, and at child development ages and stages to adapt Peaceful Practices to your circumstances.

A final benefit of this training is the coming together with others in your community who share your passion for making a difference in the lives of children.  The sense of support and community that we cultivate together will help nourish and inspire you as you bring these ideas back to your daily life.

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Kids Around the World 4-week Curriculum

  • Yoga poses
  • Fun games
  • Crafts
  • Music suggestions