Children’s Yoga Teacher Training
A 95-Hour Teacher Training Course Registered with Yoga Alliance
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Teaching Yoga to Children Keeps Your Inner Child Alive and Active—a Beautiful Path to Happiness
The Children’s Yoga Teacher Training (CYTT) provides you with the foundational theoretical and practical knowledge necessary for becoming a professional yoga teacher for children. The most significant value of this training is that it integrates a wide variety of Hridaya and general yoga teaching techniques and methodologies, adapted to children’s developmental milestones. The course presents the future of yoga for children and the opportunity to teach yoga to children across all developmental stages. Upon graduation, you’ll receive a certificate that will enable you to register for Yoga Alliance’s Registered Children’s Yoga Teacher specialty credential.
This course is structured around the widely accepted progressive stages of child development, considering the various factors influencing growth, including genetics, cognition, physical abilities, family, culture, nutrition, education, and environment. You’ll learn theoretical and practical teaching methodologies for the main developmental groups of children: toddlers, preschoolers, elementary school students, pre-teens, and teenagers. This includes games, asanas, children’s yoga stories emphasizing Hridaya concepts, breathing exercises, meditation, and relaxation techniques. You’ll learn about child development by studying patterns of growth, from which guidelines for “normal” progress are constructed, recommending a holistic approach that sees the child as a whole person—physically, emotionally, intellectually, socially, morally, culturally, and spiritually.
Theoretical Framework of the Teachings
The CYTT tailors yoga practices for children, focusing on understanding two essential aspects: the correct practice of yoga techniques and the needs of children at different stages of development.
Yoga for Children: Teaching Methodology
The CYTT covers concepts related to the learning process, learning styles, and how to teach yoga techniques tailored to each child’s developmental stage. During these sessions, you will learn how to provide professional assistance to children while correcting their yoga practice. The teachers will explain how to create stories for the children’s yoga classes, structure a children’s yoga class, and discuss theoretical concepts related to games, asanas, meditation, breathing, and mindfulness for children.
You will also learn from the teachers about the personal qualities a yoga teacher for children should develop, including practical communication skills for interacting with children, and how to establish a harmonious and respectful relationship between yoga teachers and children, as well as between yoga teachers and parents or guardians. And, you will explore class management skills and learn how to troubleshoot potential challenges as needed.
CYTT Curriculum
The course offers you an in-person Children’s Yoga Teacher Training and includes lectures, practical exercises, Hridaya Hatha Yoga sessions, games, stories, and many other fun activities. The practical sessions include the correct execution and the theoretical learning about the benefits and effects of:
- Asanas for children
- Yogic breathing, meditation, and relaxation techniques for children
- Games for children’s yoga classes
- The creation of stories that include Hridaya concepts and yoga techniques (asana, breathing, chanting, notions about yama and niyama, etc.)
- Theoretical sessions: benefits and scientific studies, and programs in modern schools regarding yoga for children
- Children’s anatomy and physiology applied to the various developmental stages
- The subtle structure of the human being: nadis, “energy channels,” chakras, “energy centers,” pancha kosha, “the five layers of the human brain,” the three levels of manifestation (physical, astral, and causal), kundalini energy, jivatma, “the soul,” Atma, the “eternal Self,” and The Hridaya Space—applied to adults and children
- The philosophy of the yoga system is explored, encompassing the yamas and niyamas, which are the ethics and moral codes applied to adults and children. The three fundamental principles in yoga practice are also described, along with the three gunas, which represent the three primary qualities of nature. Additionally, you’ll learn how the Hridaya Attitudes are used in teaching children.
- How to approach children’s yoga practice
- Healthy lifestyle notions—for adults and children
- Ethics of the children’s yoga teacher profession
Upon completion of the CYTT, you’ll receive a comprehensive, illustrated Yoga for Children Teacher’s Manual, approximately 360 pages in length, that contains all the necessary theoretical and practical information for becoming a skilled children’s yoga teacher.
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Contenido
- Learn a wide variety of Hridaya and general yoga teaching techniques and methodologies, adapted to children’s developmental milestones: toddlers, preschoolers, elementary school students, pre-teens, and teenagers.
- Play games, learn how to create yoga stories for children, and discover how to incorporate asanas, concentration and meditation techniques, breathing exercises, and relaxation techniques into a children’s yoga class.
- Engage in daily Hridaya Hatha Yoga practice and philosophy (asana, pranayama, meditation—alignment, awareness, energy).
- Receive a comprehensive and illustrated 350+ page Yoga for Children Teacher Manual.
- Become a professional Hridaya Yoga for Children teacher, learning at a Yoga Alliance-accredited yoga school.
“Children can open your boundaries. Teaching yoga to children is about rediscovering your inner child so you may easily enter a secret door to your happiness.”
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Carmen Prema
Carmen is an experienced yoga teacher, having taught yoga and meditation for over 35 years. She is registered with Yoga Alliance as an E-RYT 500, RCYT, and YACEP. Her teachers include Sahajananda, Simona Trandafir, Master Mantak Chia (Universal Healing Tao), Ma Laoshi from China, and Master Chris Luth, a US Tai Chi National Champion...
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The CYTT can be attended by individuals who have not completed a 200-, 300-, or 500-hour YTTC, or have not practiced yoga, and does not require any certification or prior yoga training. However, please note that the practice of yoga involves a high level of self-discipline and internal purity.
If you would like to register with Yoga Alliance (YA) as a Children's Registered Yoga Teacher (CRYT), you need both this 95-hour YA CRYT certification and prior certification from an accredited 200-, 300-, or 500-hour YTT (as required by YA).
The CYTT certificate attests that you graduated from a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga School (RYS), so you have the knowledge to teach yoga to children. Depending on your country's legislation and/or the school where you want to teach, this certificate may be enough.
This CYTT is organized by Hridaya France in collaboration with Sundari Integral Yoga School, both of which are registered with Yoga Alliance.
Student assessment and evaluation are continuous throughout the program. The student's presence is compulsory; they will practice the techniques, and interesting homework will be assigned for individual study. The final project involves planning and teaching a yoga class for children in a specific age group, at your discretion.
The final evaluation will consider four elements:
- Class participation
- Your inclusive and positive attitude, demonstrating respect for traditional yogic philosophy and practice
- The diligence you bring to your studies
- A final project
All learning processes and evaluations will be facilitated by the teachers throughout the course, respecting each student's level and pace while also adapting to the group dynamic.
The Children's Yoga TTC is open to anyone over 18 years of age.
The CYTT can be attended by individuals who have not completed a 200-, 300-, or 500-hour YTTC, or have not practiced yoga, and does not require any certification or prior yoga training. However, please note that the practice of yoga involves a high level of self-discipline and internal purity.
If you would like to register with Yoga Alliance (YA) as a Children's Registered Yoga Teacher (CRYT), you need both this 95-hour YA CRYT certification and prior certification from an accredited 200-, 300-, or 500-hour YTT (as required by YA).
The CYTT certificate attests that you graduated from a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga School (RYS), so you have the knowledge to teach yoga to children. Depending on your country's legislation and/or the school where you want to teach, this certificate may be enough.
This CYTT is organized by Hridaya France in collaboration with Sundari Integral Yoga School, both of which are registered with Yoga Alliance.
Student assessment and evaluation are continuous throughout the program. The student's presence is compulsory; they will practice the techniques, and interesting homework will be assigned for individual study. The final project involves planning and teaching a yoga class for children in a specific age group, at your discretion.
The final evaluation will consider four elements:
- Class participation
- Your inclusive and positive attitude, demonstrating respect for traditional yogic philosophy and practice
- The diligence you bring to your studies
- A final project
All learning processes and evaluations will be facilitated by the teachers throughout the course, respecting each student's level and pace while also adapting to the group dynamic.
The Children's Yoga TTC is open to anyone over 18 years of age.
