The Yoga For Teens Teacher Training is a comprehensive certification in yoga for teens. This training offers yoga as a transformative life practice for teens that fosters physical, mental, emotional, and social development through yoga practices and principles. It is suitable for yoga teachers, school teachers, social workers, therapists, parents, and anyone who would like to make a difference in the lives of youth through the practices and teachings of yoga. While the training includes guidance on teaching teens in various settings, it emphasizes teaching yoga in the school setting.
The Course Includes:
- A teen approach to asana and class themes; teen appropriate sequences
- Breathing and meditation techniques for teens
- Teaching yoga in the school setting
- Effective teaching methods for teens
- Teaching basic nutrition and the yoga of eating
- Understanding the teenage brain
- Teaching yoga philosophy and the ethical principles of yoga in teen language
- Introduction to working with at-risk and underserved populations
- How to help students identify negative core beliefs and replace them with positive beliefs
- Teaching teen relevant topics such as anger, forgiveness, self-confidence, and sexual health
- Incorporating play and laughter into the teen yoga class
- Chanting and sound healing with teens
- Helping teens understand and cultivate mindfulness in daily life
- Classroom management and how to effectively address behavioral problems
- Creative ways to build community, trust, and connection
- How to facilitate group discussions with teens
- Teaching principles of compassionate communication
- Practice developing a teen yoga class
- Inspiring teens to be ambassadors of peace in the world through selfless service
Fee: $560 ($480 Early Bird)
Includes a comprehensive course manual, certificate of course completion, and an opportunity to observe a Yoga at School class after the training.
