Kids need healthy skills to help them thrive in the world and navigate the many challenges they face. Yoga and mindfulness practices give them practical ways to increase their self-awareness, access their innate resilience, and find their personal power—all while having fun!
This training provides you with the understanding and tools you need to share yoga and mindfulness with children and teens in a playful, effective way that is also trauma-informed.
You’ll begin with an in-depth exploration of how the relationship between the brain, the body, and the nervous system affects child development. Then you’ll dive into the 5 Element framework of the Little Flower Yoga approach—connect, breathe, move, focus, and relax—and explore a wide range of practices that you can immediately implement with the kids in your life.
You‘ll complete this course with a deeper understanding of child development; the capacity and confidence to create lessons that meet children’s needs; and the skills to teach in a safe, engaging, and compassionate way.
Who Is This Training For?
People from diverse backgrounds and experiences participate in this training, including classroom teachers, yoga instructors, mental healthcare providers, occupational therapists, caregivers, and more. The main thing they share is a desire to give kids tools to embrace joy and build resilience, regardless of their circumstances.
You do not need to be a yoga teacher or an advanced practitioner to participate in this training, but we recommend you have some basic yoga experience.
What You’ll Learn
Through a combination of engaging lectures, practice videos, reflection, and journaling work, you will:
Learn a clear, structured framework that will allow you to easily teach an integrated experience of yoga and mindfulness to kids in any setting, including schools, yoga studios, community spaces, and homes.
Gain tools to create a physically and emotionally safer space for learning.
Explore how to make yoga poses accessible, safe, and engaging.
Learn techniques for teaching developmentally appropriate breathwork and mindfulness to children.
Gain a greater understanding of how yoga can support the healthy development of the brain, body, and nervous system.
Learn mindfulness-based classroom management strategies so you can navigate difficult behaviors skillfully and effectively.
Learn to teach from a trauma-informed perspective.
Deepen your own yoga and mindfulness practice.
