4-day course: Toddler and Pre-school Yoga Teacher Training

4-day course: Toddler and Pre-school Yoga Teacher Training

This course is for those wishing to formalise their training into a recognised qualification. This 4 day, (40 hour), fully accredited Yoga Alliance Professionals vocational training course covers yoga with children aged between 12 months up to the age of 5 years. Covering child & parent/carer yoga classes and yoga to children in a nursery or pre-school setting. This course will enable you to teach yoga in a fun, effective and engaging manner to toddler and pre-schoolers, either setting up your own classes or teaching in nurseries and other-childcare settings.

After completion of the course you will be accredited by the Yoga Alliance Professionals to teach toddler, pre-school & parent yoga classes and yoga for children in nurseries and other child-care settings, from 12 months up to the age of 5 years old.

Who is the course for?

Yoga teachers: The course is open to all qualified or trainee yoga teachers from any school or tradition. Pregnancy, mum & baby yoga or children yoga teachers in particular may feel this is natural progression in their teacher career. Teachers must have a passion to share yoga with this younger age group and enjoy working with younger children.

Yoga practitioners from other professions: Non-qualified yoga teachers are welcome to apply if they come from a related profession including Early Years Foundation educators. This course would particularly suit those working in nurseries and other childcare settings that wish offer toddler and pre-school yoga sessions within childcare settings. All non-qualified yoga teachers must have been practising yoga for at least two years and have attended a minimum of 40 hours of yoga classes.

Further prerequisites

All students should be safe to work with young children. Having an up-to-date Enhanced Disclosure (CRB check) is not a prerequisite of the course, but is preferable. And all students should be in a position to obtain one when they start teaching and come into contact with children, as this will be a prerequisite for anyone working within any childcare setting.

The Course Content (syllabus)

Toddler, Pre-school and Parent Yoga Classes (12hrs)

• 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 flash cards, stories, books and songs.

• Props and resources for toddler yoga, including scarves, beanbags, shakers, balls, parachute, 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.

Teaching in nurseries and other childcare settings (12 hours)

• Adapting the Toddler & Parent yoga class for just children within a childcare setting.

• Teaching asana and movement to a 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.

The Business of running classes and working in childcare settings (4hrs)

• Setting up a class, suitable venues, class times, payment structures.

• Policies and procedures of childcare settings.

• Child protection, and Enhanced Disclosures (CRB checks), our responsibility as yoga teachers.

• Marketing and Networking.

Yoga Alliance Professionals Accreditation

40 hours in teaching toddler, pre-school & parent yoga classes and yoga for children in nurseries and other child-care settings, for children aged 12 months up to the age of 5 years old.

This is a vocational training course, accredited by Yoga Alliance Professional UK. The course has met the stringent requirements set by the Yoga Alliance Professionals. Our graduates are trained to the highest standards.

Venue, dates and cost

Venue: The Wellbeing Studios St Agnes, Miners and Mechanics Institute

St. Agnes Heritage Coast, Vicarage Rd, Saint Agnes, Cornwall TR5 0TL

Dates: March 2020

Weekend 1:

Saturday 7th March 9.00am-4.30pm

Sunday 8th March 9.00am- 4.30pm

Weekend 2:

Saturday 28th March 9.00am-4.30pm

Sunday 29th March 9.00am-4.30pm

Cost of course: £395

How to apply and Payment

There are a maximum of 14 places available on the course. To apply please fill out the application form and Amy Jones will contact you to confirm your suitability and place on the course. She will also send out pre-course information, including the assignments and reading list. Following this Amy Jones will arrange a payment of a non-refundable deposit of £195 per person to secure your place.

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Course hours and materials

- 28 hours of course contact hours with Yoga Alliance Professionals Senior Teacher Amy Jones.

- 6 hours personal reading and research

- 6 hours assignment, planning and teaching

Total course hours 40

Amy Jones will provide a full course manual to support all aspects covered in the course. A reading list will be sent to students prior to the start of the course. Students are expected to obtain all set texts on reading lists themselves prior to the start of the course and will need to bring them to each day of the course. Additional useful books will also be included on the reading list for future suggested purchases and study.