What Is a Kids Yoga Teacher Training Course?
A Kids Yoga Teacher Training Course teaches participants how to introduce yoga to children through age-appropriate postures, movement, breathing, relaxation, mindfulness, creative activities, and positive teaching methods.
Unlike adult yoga classes, children’s yoga often incorporates stories, games, imagination, music, group activities, and playful learning. A kids yoga teacher learns to adapt instructions to children’s developmental stages, attention spans, abilities, and individual needs.
At Tratak Yoga Academy, the training combines the foundations of yogic education with child development, yoga practices, creative teaching, classroom management, inclusion, safety, and lesson planning.
The goal is to help trainees understand not only what to teach, but how to teach yoga to children in a safe, engaging, and supportive environment.
Why Choose Tratak Yoga Academy for Kids Yoga Teacher Training?
Teaching yoga to children requires a different approach from teaching adults. Children learn through movement, exploration, imagination, repetition, stories, and positive interaction.
Our training focuses on the knowledge and practical teaching skills needed to design meaningful kids yoga sessions.
What makes this course valuable?
- Live online learning: Attend instructor-led classes through Zoom from your home or preferred location.
- Child development foundations: Understand the different needs of preschool children, primary-school children, and preteens.
- Traditional yogic knowledge: Explore yoga philosophy, yogic values, and age-appropriate applications of yogic education.
- Creative teaching methods: Learn to use stories, games, songs, movement, and imagination to engage children.
- Breathing and mindfulness: Explore child-friendly breathing activities, concentration games, relaxation, and meditation.
- Safety-focused practice: Study alignment, modifications, consent, contraindications, and appropriate movement for growing bodies.
- Inclusive yoga education: Learn introductory approaches to adapting sessions for children with different abilities and learning needs.
- Practical teaching preparation: Develop lesson plans, age-specific activities, and class sequences, and prepare for teaching evaluation.
1. Foundations of Kids Yoga and Yogic Education
Understand the meaning, purpose, and scope of children’s yoga. Explore how yoga can be introduced as an educational experience that includes movement, awareness, values, and balanced development.
2. Child Development and Psychology
Explore children’s physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development. Learn how age, environment, attention span, behaviour, and emotional needs can influence participation in yoga sessions.
3. Yoga Anatomy, Safety and Alignment
Study basic skeletal and muscular anatomy, posture, joint movement, growing bones, movement limitations, safe alignment, modifications, and general contraindications relevant to children’s yoga.
4. Child-Friendly Asanas and Creative Movement
Learn how to introduce standing, sitting, balancing, kneeling, prone, and supine postures. Explore animal poses, bird and nature poses, alphabet poses, character-based poses, and theme-based yoga sequences.
5. Pawanmuktasana and Sun Salutation Practices
Explore gentle joint-mobility practices, warm-up movements, breath-and-movement coordination, child-friendly Surya Namaskara, introductory Chandra Namaskara, and age-appropriate Warrior sequences.
6. Creative Breathing and Pranayama
Learn how to introduce natural breath awareness, diaphragmatic breathing, humming, and playful breathing activities inspired by flowers, bees, balloons, and animals. Understand when breathing practices need modification or should be avoided.
7. Mindfulness, Meditation and Trataka
Discover child-friendly mindfulness, sensory awareness, concentration games, gratitude, loving-kindness, and introductory meditation practices. Explore appropriate Trataka adaptations while avoiding eye strain.
8. Yoga Nidra, Relaxation and Visualisation
Study guided relaxation, body awareness, progressive muscular relaxation, age-appropriate visualisation, children’s Yoga Nidra, and playful relaxation activities.
9. Yoga Stories, Games, Songs and Mantras
Learn to build yoga sessions around stories, characters, movement, cooperative games, music, rhythm, simple mantras, and age-appropriate cultural awareness.
10. Creativity, Props and Classroom Resources
Explore mandalas, drawing, crafts, sensory resources, puppets, pose cards, scarves, cushions, blocks, and other classroom materials that can support children’s engagement and learning.
11. Yogic Values and Lifestyle Education
Discover child-friendly ways to introduce the principles of Patanjali’s Eight Limbs, kindness, honesty, responsibility, gratitude, mindful eating, healthy routines, and conscious family practices.
12. Emotional Awareness and Inclusive Yoga
Learn introductory approaches to helping children identify emotions, practise grounding and calming activities, and participate through adaptable, choice-based activities. Explore respectful approaches to neurodiversity and individual differences while understanding the limits of a yoga teacher’s role.
13. Teaching Methodology and Lesson Planning
Learn how to structure a complete kids yoga session, sequence active and calming practices, give age-appropriate instructions, manage group participation, prepare lesson plans, and adapt activities for schools, studios, and family sessions.
14. Assessment and Teaching Evaluation
Explore lesson-plan preparation, age-specific class design, written knowledge assessment, teaching observation, practical teaching demonstrations, constructive feedback, and self-reflection.
The curriculum includes 27 modules, bringing together traditional yoga, child development, safe movement, creativity, inclusive teaching, and professional teaching preparation.
