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Kids Yoga Teacher Training Course

Kids Yoga Teacher Training

Kids Yoga Teacher Training & Certification Course – Online Live on Zoom

Learn to Teach Yoga to Children with Confidence, Creativity and Care

Discover the art of teaching yoga to children through the Kids Yoga Teacher Training & Certification Course at Tratak Yoga Academy. This online live training is designed to help you understand children’s developmental needs and learn how to create engaging, safe, age-appropriate yoga sessions.

Explore traditional yoga practices, creative movement, child-friendly breathing techniques, mindfulness, meditation, yoga storytelling, games, and practical teaching methodology. Learn how to adapt yoga activities for different age groups while encouraging self-awareness, confidence, emotional awareness, creativity, and healthy habits.

Whether you are an aspiring kids yoga instructor, an experienced yoga teacher, a school educator, or someone passionate about children’s well-being, this course will help you develop practical skills for introducing yoga to young learners.

  • Course Format: Online Live Classes on Zoom
  • Course Duration: 25 Days of Classes
  • Schedule: Monday to Friday
  • Daily Class Duration: 1 Hour
  • Total Live Class Time: 25 Hours
  • Age Groups Covered: Children aged 3–14 years
  • Institution: Tratak Yoga Academy

Tratak Yoga Academy’s Kids Yoga Teacher Training Course is an online live certification programme delivered through Zoom. It includes 25 one-hour classes held Monday to Friday, covering child development, yoga asanas, breathing techniques, mindfulness, storytelling, safety, inclusive teaching, and kids yoga lesson planning for children aged 3–14 years.

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.

Modules to Be Covered

For teachers working with children aged 3 to 14

This curriculum prepares teachers to deliver safe, age-appropriate and engaging yoga education for children. It integrates child development, yoga philosophy, movement, breathing, mindfulness, creativity, emotional regulation, inclusion and professional teaching methodology.

The course contains 27 modules. Each module may be adjusted to suit the total training hours, trainee experience and teaching setting.

Module 1: Foundations of Kids Yoga and Yogic Education

  • Meaning, purpose and scope of kids yoga
  • Difference between adult yoga and children’s yoga
  • Physical, mental, emotional, social and moral benefits
  • Purpose and yogic vision of education
  • Yoga as education, not only physical exercise
  • Gurukul system and experiential learning
  • Balanced development through yoga
  • Yoga in modern schools
  • Consciousness and self-awareness in children
  • Samskaras and their influence on habits and character
  • Qualities and responsibilities of a kids yoga teacher
  • Child safeguarding, consent and professional boundaries

Module 2: Understanding Children’s Behaviour and Psychology

  • Difference between behaviour, emotion and underlying need
  • Why children express stress through behaviour
  • Attention-seeking versus connection-seeking
  • Tantrums, anger, fear, withdrawal and resistance
  • Impact of family, school and peer environments
  • Emotional co-regulation and self-regulation
  • Observing behaviour without judgement or diagnosis
  • Positive communication and age-appropriate boundaries
  • Working collaboratively with parents
  • Warning signs requiring professional referral

Module 3: Child Development Ages 3 to 6

  • Physical and motor development
  • Cognitive and language development
  • Emotional, social and moral development
  • Attention span and learning through play
  • Movement, imitation, rhythm and repetition
  • Preschool classroom needs
  • Managing restlessness and separation anxiety
  • Appropriate class duration and expectations

Module 4: Child Development Ages 7 to 10

  • Developmental needs of primary-school children
  • Coordination, strength, balance and body awareness
  • Concentration and confidence
  • Learning through stories, games and group participation
  • Competition, comparison and self-esteem
  • Age-appropriate instructions, corrections and encouragement

Module 5: Preteens and Teenagers Ages 11 to 14

  • Physical, emotional and hormonal changes
  • Identity development and emotional sensitivity
  • Academic and performance pressure
  • Peer pressure, body image and social comparison
  • Screen use and sleep disturbance
  • Student unrest and youth-related concerns
  • Leadership and responsibility
  • Positive communication with teenagers.

Module 6: Anatomy for Kids Yoga

  • Basic skeletal and muscular anatomy
  • Spine, posture and joint movement
  • Growing bones and growth plates
  • Muscle engagement for children
  • Joint stability and safe movement range
  • Natural flexibility and hypermobility
  • Effects of growth spurts on coordination
  • Differences between children’s and adults’ bodies

Module 7: Safety Alignment and Contraindications

  • Safe practice principles for growing bodies
  • Common alignment mistakes
  • Modifications for different needs
  • Avoiding forceful stretching and excessive holding
  • Appropriate repetitions and rest
  • Recognising pain, fatigue, dizziness and breathing difficulty
  • General contraindications
  • Safe correction and consent
  • Situations requiring medical clearance

Module 8: Foundations of Child Friendly Asanas

  • Meaning and purpose of asana
  • Standing, sitting, kneeling, prone and supine postures
  • Safe entry and exit
  • Child-friendly teaching cues
  • Benefits and precautions
  • Building balanced sequences
  • Using imagination while maintaining alignment

Module 9: Pawanmuktasana Series

  • Joint-mobility and anti-rheumatic practices
  • Gentle digestive and abdominal movements
  • Energising movements
  • Breath-and-movement coordination
  • Using Pawanmuktasana as a warm-up
  • Modifications for limited mobility
  • Appropriate timing around meals

Module 10: Creative Asana Categories

  • Animal asanas
  • Bird and nature asanas
  • Object asanas
  • Character and person-based asanas
  • Alphabet asanas
  • Balancing postures
  • Energising and calming postures
  • Theme-based yoga sequences

Module 11: Surya Namaskara Chandra Namaskara and Warrior Sequence

  • Meaning and structure of Surya Namaskara
  • Child-friendly Surya Namaskara
  • Introduction to Chandra Namaskara
  • Warrior sequence for strength, focus and confidence
  • Appropriate pace and repetitions
  • Age-based modifications
  • Combining movement, breath and affirmations

Module 12: Partner Group and Family Yoga

  • Benefits of paired and group practices
  • Cooperation, communication and trust
  • Personal space and consent
  • Safe partner matching
  • Avoiding forced stretching and unsafe weight-bearing
  • Group shapes and cooperative movements
  • Parent-child and Mommy-and-Me yoga
  • Family yoga and mixed-age sessions

Module 13: Creative and Traditional Breathing Practices

  • Natural breathing and breath awareness
  • Diaphragmatic breathing
  • Child-friendly pranayama
  • Creative breathing games
  • Balloon, bee, flower and animal breathing
  • Humming practices
  • Alternate-nostril breathing preparation
  • Calming and energising breathing
  • Practices requiring modification or avoidance
  • Breath-retention precautions

Module 14: Pratyahara Dharana and Trataka

  • Meaning of Pratyahara and Dharana
  • Sensory awareness and regulation
  • Concentration through sound, sight, touch and breath
  • Taraka or concentrated gazing
  • Child-safe Trataka adaptations
  • Avoiding eye strain
  • Concentration games
  • Memory activities
  • Eye-relaxation practices

Module 15: Mindfulness and Meditation

  • Meaning of mindfulness for children
  • Present-moment awareness
  • Breath, body and sensory awareness
  • Walking and eating meditation
  • Meditation for different age groups
  • Loving-kindness and gratitude practices
  • Supporting attention without forcing stillness
  • Meditation for preteens and teenagers

Module 16: Yoga Nidra Visualisation and Relaxation

  • Difference between rest, sleep and relaxation
  • Progressive muscular relaxation
  • Body-awareness techniques
  • Yoga Nidra for children
  • Guided visualisation
  • Magic Carpet relaxation
  • Safe and positive imagery
  • Age-appropriate language and duration
  • Laughter yoga
  • Returning children safely to alertness

Module 17: Yoga Stories and Storytelling

  • Using stories to guide children through postures
  • Structure of a yoga story
  • Connecting characters with asanas
  • Voice modulation and expression
  • Indian, nature-based and original stories
  • Teaching values without preaching
  • Turning a story into a complete yoga sequence
  • Movement-based stories

Module 18: Yoga Games Songs Mantras and Omkar

  • Purpose of yoga games
  • Cooperative and non-competitive games
  • Games for focus, balance, memory and coordination
  • Calming and energising games
  • Songs and rhythmic movements
  • Simple mantras for children
  • Meaning and appropriate use of Omkar
  • Respecting different cultural and family beliefs

Module 19: Art Craft Mandalas and Life Skill Activities

  • Drawing and colouring activities
  • Mandalas for focus and creativity
  • Clay and craft activities
  • Emotion-based artwork
  • Journaling for older children
  • Mindful cooking and food awareness
  • Nature-based learning
  • Integrating creativity into yoga classes

Module 20: Props and Creative Classroom Resources

  • Blocks, straps, cushions and bolsters
  • Scarves, feathers, bells and breathing balls
  • Puppets and story cards
  • Music and sound instruments
  • Pose cards and visual schedules
  • Sensory props
  • Homemade and low-cost resources
  • Prop safety, hygiene and supervision

Module 21: Patanjali’s Eight Limbs for Children

  • Child-friendly understanding of Ashtanga Yoga
  • Yama and Niyama through daily behaviour
  • Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana and Dhyana
  • Ahimsa as kindness
  • Satya as honesty
  • Asteya as respect
  • Aparigraha as simplicity and sharing
  • Saucha, Santosha, Tapas, Svadhyaya and Ishvara Pranidhana
  • Teaching values without fear or guilt

Module 22: Karma Yoga Bhakti Yoga Chakras and Mudras

  • Karma Yoga through responsibility and service
  • Bhakti Yoga through gratitude and devotion
  • Child-friendly introduction to chakras
  • Colours, emotions and qualities associated with chakras
  • Chakras as a reflective framework, not medical anatomy
  • Simple mudras for calmness, focus and awareness
  • Integrating mudras into stories and meditation
  • Avoiding unsupported healing claims

Module 23: Yogic Lifestyle Diet and Parenting

  • Healthy daily routine
  • Sleep, rest, play and screen balance
  • Mindful eating
  • Child-friendly understanding of sattvic food
  • Avoiding food fear, restriction and body shaming
  • Yoga and family routines
  • Conscious parenting principles
  • Encouragement versus pressure
  • Parents as behavioural role models
  • Supporting families without blame

Module 24: Emotional Regulation and Mental Well Being

  • Recognising and naming emotions
  • Fight, flight, freeze and shutdown responses
  • Co-regulation and self-regulation
  • Grounding and calming techniques
  • Supporting anger, fear, worry and sadness
  • Trauma-sensitive teaching language
  • Creating a calm-down toolkit
  • Limitations of a yoga teacher’s role
  • Referral to mental-health professionals when required

Module 25: Special Needs and Inclusive Yoga

  • Understanding neurodiversity
  • Respectful and inclusive terminology
  • Adapting yoga for different abilities
  • Supporting children with ADHD and autism
  • Yoga support for anxiety and low mood
  • Gentle modifications for children with asthma
  • Supporting sensory, physical and learning differences
  • Visual schedules and choice-based participation
  • Collaboration with parents and healthcare professionals
  • Yoga as supportive care, not a cure or treatment replacement

Module 26: Teaching Methodology and Lesson Planning

  • Structure of a complete kids yoga class
  • Setting learning outcomes
  • Sequencing active and calming practices
  • Observing children in group classes
  • Giving age-appropriate instructions
  • Correcting alignment safely
  • Positive classroom management
  • Responding to challenging behaviour
  • Creating age-specific lesson plans
  • Planning school, studio and family sessions
  • Attendance and observation records
  • Constructive individual feedback

Module 25: Special Needs and Inclusive Yoga

  • Understanding neurodiversity
  • Respectful and inclusive terminology
  • Adapting yoga for different abilities
  • Supporting children with ADHD and autism
  • Yoga support for anxiety and low mood
  • Gentle modifications for children with asthma
  • Supporting sensory, physical and learning differences
  • Visual schedules and choice-based participation
  • Collaboration with parents and healthcare professionals
  • Yoga as supportive care, not a cure or treatment replacement

Module 26: Teaching Methodology and Lesson Planning

  • Structure of a complete kids yoga class
  • Setting learning outcomes
  • Sequencing active and calming practices
  • Observing children in group classes
  • Giving age-appropriate instructions
  • Correcting alignment safely
  • Positive classroom management
  • Responding to challenging behaviour
  • Creating age-specific lesson plans
  • Planning school, studio and family sessions
  • Attendance and observation records
  • Constructive individual feedback

Module 27: Assessment and Teaching Evaluation

  • Lesson-plan preparation
  • Age-specific class design
  • Asana and pranayama knowledge
  • Storytelling and creative teaching
  • Classroom-management understanding
  • Inclusive class adaptations
  • Written knowledge assessment
  • Teaching observation
  • Final teaching demonstration
  • Individual feedback and self-reflection

Skills You Can Develop Through This Course

By the end of the training, participants should be able to demonstrate an understanding of:

  • The differences between teaching yoga to children and teaching adults.
  • How children’s developmental stages influence yoga activities.
  • Child-friendly asanas, creative sequences, and movement games.
  • Age-appropriate breathing, mindfulness, concentration, and relaxation practices.
  • Safety principles, modifications, consent, and professional boundaries.
  • Storytelling, creative resources, and engaging lesson formats.
  • Introductory inclusive teaching approaches for children with different needs.
  • Planning and evaluating age-specific kids yoga sessions.

These are intended learning outcomes. Actual competency will depend on participation, practice, assessment, and the academy’s course requirements.

Career Opportunities After Kids Yoga Teacher Training

After completing the course and meeting its requirements, participants may explore opportunities such as:

  • Kids yoga classes in yoga studios and wellness centres.
  • Age-appropriate yoga sessions in schools and preschools, subject to institutional requirements.
  • Parent-child and family yoga sessions.
  • Children’s yoga workshops and holiday programmes.
  • Online kids yoga classes.
  • Integration of suitable yoga activities into existing teaching or wellness services.

Career opportunities depend on individual skills, practical experience, local requirements, and the policies of the organisations where participants intend to teach.

Yoga can be a supportive educational and well-being practice, but a kids yoga teacher is not automatically qualified to diagnose or treat medical, developmental, or mental-health conditions.

Who Can Join This Kids Yoga Teacher Training Course?

  • This online kids yoga certification course may be suitable for:
  • Yoga teachers who want to expand their teaching skills to include children.
  • Aspiring kids yoga instructors interested in children’s yoga education.
  • School teachers and preschool educators who want to explore age-appropriate yoga activities.
  • Parents and caregivers interested in learning structured, child-friendly yoga practices.
  • Wellness professionals who want to develop knowledge of yoga for children.
  • Yoga practitioners who wish to explore a teaching pathway focused on children’s well-being.

Previous teaching experience with children may be helpful, but applicants should confirm any specific entry requirements with Tratak Yoga Academy before enrolling.

Course Duration, Schedule and Online Format

The Kids Yoga Teacher Training Course is delivered through live online classes on Zoom, allowing participants to learn without travelling to a physical training location.

Course structure:

  • Duration: 25 class days
  • Days: Monday to Friday
  • Daily session: 1 hour
  • Total scheduled live learning: 25 hours
  • Delivery: Live online classes through Zoom

Since classes are held five days per week, the 25 scheduled class days span five teaching weeks.

Participants should have a stable internet connection and a suitable space to participate in movement-based activities. Course dates, class timings, recordings, attendance requirements, assessment arrangements, and any additional study expectations should be confirmed with the academy.

Enrol in the Online Kids Yoga Certification Course

Are you ready to explore the art of teaching yoga to children?

Join Tratak Yoga Academy’s online live Kids Yoga Teacher Training Course to develop your understanding of children’s yoga, creative teaching techniques, mindfulness, safe movement, and lesson planning.

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Contact our team for course fees, upcoming batch dates, class timings, enrolment requirements, and certification details.

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OUR KIDS YOGA TEACHER

Neeharika Vennala

Neeharika Vennala is a certified Yoga Therapist, Mind Coach, Kids Yoga Specialist, and Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga Expert. With over seven years of experience, she has guided more than 300 families through yoga, mindfulness and wellness programs. She is studying Child Psychology ,Behavioural Specialist and pursuing a PhD in Yogic Sciences and Spirituality.

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Everything You Need to Know About the Kids Yoga Teacher Training Course

The course consists of 25 class days, with one-hour live sessions from Monday to Friday. This equals 25 scheduled live class hours over five teaching weeks.

Yes. The course is designed for live online learning through Zoom, allowing participants to join from their own location.

The curriculum covers children aged 3–14 years, including preschool children, primary-school children, and preteens and younger teenagers.

The curriculum includes child development, yoga anatomy and safety, child-friendly asanas, Pawanmuktasana, Surya Namaskara, breathing techniques, mindfulness, meditation, Trataka, Yoga Nidra, storytelling, games, yogic values, inclusion, lesson planning, and teaching evaluation.

Yoga teachers, aspiring kids yoga instructors, school educators, preschool teachers, parents, caregivers, and interested yoga practitioners may find the course relevant. Any formal entry requirements should be confirmed with the academy.

The course may be relevant to both experienced yoga teachers and aspiring instructors. Please contact Tratak Yoga Academy to confirm prerequisites and whether prior yoga qualifications are required.

Yes. The curriculum includes class structure, learning outcomes, age-specific lesson plans, safe sequencing, classroom management, observation, and teaching evaluation.

Yes. The curriculum includes emotional awareness, co-regulation and self-regulation, grounding activities, calming techniques, trauma-sensitive teaching language, and guidance on when professional referral may be appropriate. These topics are educational and do not replace professional healthcare.

Yes, You will get certificate after complete this training. This certification course will be affiliate with Yoga Alliance USA. It is YACEP certification. This certification is globally acceptable. 

Please contact Tratak Yoga Academy on WhatsApp for the latest course fee, payment details, and enrolment information.

You can contact Tratak Yoga Academy directly on WhatsApp at +91 88266 06304 to request the upcoming batch schedule and registration details.

The training is designed to develop knowledge and practical teaching skills for children’s yoga. Teaching opportunities depend on successful completion of course requirements, individual competence, and any applicable local or institutional requirements. Check the exact scope of the certificate with the academy before enrolling.

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