2 Day 15-Hour Suspension Yoga for Kids™ Online Teacher Training

Pre-application requirements

Participants must have completed the basic "The Suspension Yoga™ Teacher Training" with The Flying Yogi® or have a certification in other aerial yoga modalities.

Certifications

Students who complete their training will be awarded a certificate of completion.

The Suspension Yoga™ for Children Teacher Training is a supplemental training to the basic Suspension Yoga™ Teacher Training and qualifies as a Continued Education Credit in compliance with Canadian Yoga Alliance and Yoga Alliance standards.

How the training works

You will need your own YogiGym or comparable equipments, a laptop or desktop computer with a stable internet connection in order to join the live classes held via Zoom.

Timing of sessions (GMT -4/GMT -5)

All classes will be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Day 1

• Exploring the elements of yoga

Learn how to introduce and incorporate these elements in a playful, imaginative way that makes them easy to comprehend and fun to practice.

• Classroom management

Strategies on how to effectively manage a room full of energetic little bodies with calm and ease. Topics will include rules of conduct, body awareness, and mindfulness of others.

• Introducing the YogiGym®

Teaching the separate components and their functions, terminology, and safety guidelines from a child’s perspective.

• Elements of a Suspension Yoga™ class

1. Centering/grounding/focusing through breath connection and body awareness activities.

2. Warm-ups with whole-body movements that involve joints and spine.

3. Themes and games

4. Cooldowns and relaxation

Day 2

• Building classes around themes

Seedlings emerging from the earth, balancing on a tight rope, being underwater, flying high in the sky, and games (Musicals slings, invent a pose, teach a pose, downward dog tunnel)

• Classroom presentations

Participants will prepare and present a mock class.

• Business tips

Discussion on launching a successful Suspension Yoga™ program for children and families.

Course information

When you observe children at play, it is easy to see how you once behaved as human beings a long tie ago, swinging by your arms through trees, hanging upside down by your knees, doing cartwheels, and somersaults.

Sadly, once children begin attending schools and are forced to sit for lengthy periods of time on hard chairs at poorly designed desks or carry heavy backpacks home every day and spend hours hunched over computer monitors, this joy-filled freedom of movement gives way to onset of postural problems. Loss of flexibility results in a reduction in mobility; these conditions continue to deteriorate more rapidly as the body matures, eventually resulting in chronic back issues in adulthood.

Fortunately, due to the fact that children’s skeletal systems aren’t fully set until age 12, most of these effects can be easily and quickly reversed when Suspension Yoga™ is introduced.

This teacher training is held online. The Flying Yogi is based in Ontario, Canada and they will live stream sessions via Zoom based on EDT (GMT -4) during summer and EST (GMT -5) after November 1st, 2020.

• 15-hour Suspension Yoga for Kids™ curriculum
• A certificate will be awarded upon completion of the training
• 15-hour Continued Education Credit in compliance with Canadian Yoga Alliance and Yoga Alliance standards

• Accommodation
• Meals
• Additional Suspension Yoga™ Teacher Training

• A reservation requires a deposit of 100% of the total price.
• The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.