Kids Yoga 101: How to Teach Yoga to Kids
What you'll learn
- You will be able to confidently teach yoga to children and give children the skills and knowledge that will benefit kids in their daily activities. You will understand the benefits of yoga for children and be able to lead kids through age-appropriate poses, exercises, and games. You will become knowledgeable of breathing and calming exercises, kid-friendly yoga poses, games, relaxation and mindfulness strategies, and kid tested lesson plans and resources.
Requirements
- Students must enjoy children and desire to introduce them to the lifelong benefits and skills of yoga.
Description
What Will I learn?
Discover why yoga is important for children in our world today and how it is different than adult yoga. You will also learn the t benefits of yoga for kids and how to teach yoga to children that will give them the skills that will last for life. The best breathing exercises and techniques will be taught that will help kids remain calm and focused in their daily activities.
Child-friendly yoga poses, games, exercises, and activities are shown that actually help children practice and remember the yoga postures. You will also discover the best mindfulness tips and relaxation techniques that really work with kids.
Take the guesswork out of what is really effective with teaching kids yoga and get the top-recommended resources including books, props, games, and materials.
This course is full of bonuses include a kids yoga lesson planning guide and templates, ready to use kids yoga lesson plans, illustrated yoga pose printables, the top resources for kids yoga, and live yoga classes with children.
A personalized certificate of completion is awarded at the end of your course.
Who this course is for:
- Students who desire to introduce and teach yoga to children. This course is perfect for parents, teachers, counselors and health care professionals.
Course content
- Preview05:54
- 01:24Welcome to the How to Teach Yoga to Kids Course
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Instructor
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Sara J. Weis is a creative and passionate teacher who has inspired thousands of children for nearly 20 years. Through her bestselling books, Go Go Yoga for Kids: A Complete Guide to Using Yoga with Kids and Go Go Yoga for Kids: Yoga Lessons for Children, she has combined her experience as an elementary and junior high teacher and as a certified kid and adult yoga instructor to help introduce children to the lifelong benefits of yoga. She is also the creator of the Kids Yoga Challenge Pose Cards and the Kids Yoga Challenge App which allow adults and children to move progressively through yoga poses at their own rate and abilities.
Sara holds a Master’s degree in Education as well as a Bachelor’s degree in both Early Childhood and Elementary Education. She is a teacher for the West Des Moines School District and leads kids yoga classes for a nationally known health and fitness club. She lives in Iowa with her three children and her husband.