General InfoTeaching yoga to children
2a Wrentham Avenue,
London NW10 3HA
Fri 15 - Sun 17 Oct, 2010 (3 days)
This course is aimed at yoga teachers and trainee teachers and those who haveextensive experience with children (providing they also have strong and disciplined yoga practice and an understanding of the wider aspects of yoga).
Students on Yogacampus Teacher Training Diploma 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 Yogacampus Teacher Training Diploma.
To book this intensive please download booking form from http://www.yogacampus.com/attend/short-courses/teaching-yoga-to-children/
or email info@yogacampus.com
or telephone 020 7042 9900
This 6 days course covers the theory of yoga for children and will give you 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. With a detailed training manual, participants will 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, the safety aspects of teaching children, behavior management and the whole range of challenges and joys of teaching yoga to children. We will cover setting up children's yoga classes and teaching in schools and will provide 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 (CRB check) and to be 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 practicing ever since. Her teaching of children came from her older daughter, Cleo, who watched and copied Jo as she practiced. Before long Cleo’s friends wanted to practice yoga too and Jo’s children’s classes began. In 2001 she took her first basic training for Yoga for the Special Child with Sonia Sumar, and has since taken all her advanced courses and completed training with her as an Integral Yoga teacher. Sonia invited her to act as the UK representative for the Yoga for the Special Child programme llb offering basic training programmes.
Jo’s understanding of how to teach yoga to children with all kinds of developmental challenges comes from her experience of offering yoga as a therapy to hundreds of children. Jo established The Special Yoga Centre in 2005 and, as well as hosting a range of adult and family yoga classes and courses, 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.