General InfoChildren's Yoga Teacher Training
Jo Manuel
The Special Yoga Centre,
2a Wrentham Avenue,
London NW10 3HA
2a Wrentham Avenue,
London NW10 3HA
Fri 17 - Sun 19 Oct, 2008
Sat 22 - Mon 24 Nov, 2008
Sat 22 - Mon 24 Nov, 2008
10.00am - 5.00pm each day
Cost: £525 including detailed course materials
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Open to all yoga teachers and trainee teachers from any background.
Students on The Life Centre Yoga Teacher Training Programme who attend all six days may count this as one of their approved intensives. However, as the course requires some teaching experience, it may not be taken either as a first intensive or within six months of starting on The Life Centre Teacher Training Programme.Develop a full understanding of how to teach yoga to children from two to teens - and how to help them understand the difference between yoga and creative play. Learn how to adapt traditional postures, breathing techniques, relaxation and visualisations for children; yoga songs, chants and yoga oriented games; and how to give children a basic understanding of yoga philosophy.
We will also cover children's mental, emotional and anatomical development, safety aspects of teaching children, behaviour management and the whole range of challenges and joys of teaching yoga in children's classes and in schools, providing you with a tool box of class structures and techniques to help give children flexibility, strength, emotional stability, self esteem and an overall sense of wellbeing through their yoga practice.
You will be required to do some homework after each weekend, and your teaching will be assessed for certification. All graduates are obliged to be police checked and fully insured before teaching children.
Jo Manuel is founder and director of The Special Yoga Centre, a registered charity dedicated to making yoga available to everyone irrespective of age, disability, ethnic background, religion, or economic status. Jo first came to yoga as a teenager, began studying daily in her early 20s and has been practising ever since. Her teaching of children came from her older daughter, Cleo, who watched and copied Jo as she practised. Before long Cleo’s friends wanted to practise yoga too and Jo’s children’s classes began.In 1998 Jo trained as a yoga teacher with John Stirk, Sophy Hoare and Peter Blackaby, based on the inspired teachings of the late Vanda Scaravelli. She continued to teach yoga to children and adults but soon realised that she wanted to develop her practice further to work with special needs’ children and was introduced to the work of Sonia Sumar. In 2001 she took her first basic training for Yoga for the Special Child with Sonia, and has since taken all her advanced courses and completed training with her as an Integral Yoga teacher. Jo established the Special Yoga Centre in 2005 and, as well as hosting a range of adult and family yoga classes and courses, and the vast majority of The Life Centre’s training courses and workshops, The Special Yoga Centre is the UK home of The Yoga for the Special Child programme, a programme that supports children with a wide range of conditions, including cerebral palsy, Downs syndrome, Autism and epilepsy, ADD and ADHD and other physical and developmental difficulties.
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