Tranquility

 

The training is split into two long weekends during 2011 dates still tbc - you need to do both weekends to complete the course
(dates tbc Weekend 1: Fri - Sun  Weekend 2: Fri  - Sun )

Open to all yoga teachers and trainee yoga teachers from any background. Also available to those with experience of working with children and at least 3 years regular yoga practice.

Students on BCY Yoga Teacher Training Programme who attend all six days may count this as one of their approved intensives. However, as the course requires some teaching experience, it may not be taken either as a first intensive or within six months of starting on The Life Centre Teacher Training Programme.

Develop a full understanding of how to teach yoga to children from two to teens - and how to help them understand the difference between yoga and creative play. Learn how to adapt traditional postures, breathing techniques, relaxation and visualisations for children; yoga songs, chants and yoga oriented games; and how to give children a basic understanding of yoga philosophy.

We will also cover children's mental, emotional and anatomical development, safety aspects of teaching children, behaviour management and the whole range of challenges and joys of teaching yoga in children's classes and in schools, providing you with a tool box of class structures and techniques to help give children flexibility, strength, emotional stability, self esteem and an overall sense of wellbeing through their yoga practice.

You will be required to do some homework after each weekend, and your teaching will be assessed for certification. All graduates are obliged to be police checked, first aid qualified and fully insured before teaching children.

You will cover teaching children aged 4-12 including:

Weekend 1- Yoga for 4-7 year olds:

Greeting children and parents
Teaching methodology
Imaginative yoga games and postures
Weaving postures into a storyline- various stories explored
Involving parents in classes- family yoga
Development of the child- physical, mental, emotional, spiritual
Meditation for the young child
Breath practices for the young child
Yoga philosophy made easy- yoga values inherent in the child's view of life


Weekend 2- Yoga for 8-12 year olds

Greeting children and parents
Teaching methodology
Postures and games for the older child
Nurturing the imagination through games/ asana
Development of the child- physical, mental, emotional, spiritual
Maintaining strength and flexibility in the child
How/ whether to "correct/ adjust" children's asana
Further meditation & breath practices for the older child
Further yoga philosophy and stories from the East

Business skills:
Setting up childrens classes
Approaching schools

The full course details dates/ costs etc. will be confirmed later in 2010
Applicants should already have a strong yoga practice, minimum 3 years regular experience or have completed/ be in the process of taking at least a 200 hour yoga teaching certificate

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