95 Hour Children’s Yoga Teacher Training in India (RCYT Certified)

In Kids Yoga Teacher Training Module One, you'll look at muscle and skeletal development, physical body parts, body systems, major body parts and alignment and posture principles. It also examines the effects of yoga on the body and mind, including the subtle energy systems of chakras and nadis. You will also learn about age-appropriate ways of teaching anatomy to children. By understanding anatomy, you can teach yoga classes that are safe, beneficial, and enjoyable to take, helping children develop strength for judo moves, balance, and inner peace.

Focus Area in this module:

• How children grow, move, and develop their senses and intelligence.
• What their bodies need to practice yoga safely.
• Understanding flexibility and range of motion.
• Building a strong foundation in basic anatomy is essential for teaching children.
• How to help young yogis respect and care for their bodies.
• Teaching postures safely to reduce the risk of injury.

This module explores the application of yoga in children, integrating discussions and research on the concepts of mind and body from diverse Western perspectives. Taking an interdisciplinary approach offers valuable insights and practical tools that can positively transform students' lives.

After taking this class, you will be able to recite developmental stages and asana cues.

• Self-Note course Early Childhood (18 months – 4 years)
• Development Note program Primary School (5–14 years)
• Development Note class Secondary School (15–18 years).

Yoga for special populations, understanding contraindications.

• Teaching yoga in a way that is sympathetic to students with special needs of either a physical or cognitive nature.
• How children‘s bodies differ from those of adults and what they need at each stage of life.
• By the end of this module, you will be able to teach yoga safely in a way that is accessible to children of all ages and abilities.

In this module, you will gain the skills and knowledge to teach children effectively and safely:

• Be Prepared: Learn how to set up a class environment that is engaging, organised, and ready for a smooth session, including choosing appropriate music.
• Clear & Simple Instruction: Master how to communicate instructions in language suitable for children’s ages, using both verbal and visual guidance.
• Child-Centred Approach: Discover how to create joyful, playful, and safe spaces for children, balancing professionalism with a childlike spirit.
• Understanding Children’s Bodies: Study anatomy, growth patterns, flexibility, and movement limits to teach children how to respect and care for their bodies.
• Safe Posture Instruction: Learn how to teach postures safely, minimise the risk of injury, and adapt poses to suit each child’s individual needs.
• Lifelong Learning: Cultivate a mindset of continuous growth, self-reflection, and evolution as a children’s yoga teacher.

This portion of the training prepares participants to build engaging, age-appropriate yoga classes for children that enhance physical, emotional, and cognitive development.

This module covers concentration & meditation, aiming to help future yoga teachers help children explore mindfulness, concentration, and emotional steadiness.

Practical Meditation Techniques Covered

• Snowman Relaxation
• Rainbows For Kids Meditation
• Mindful Breathing (Short & Long Versions)
• Mindful Listening
• Guided Relaxation
• Magic Book Of Relaxation
• Bouncing Ball Mindfulness
• Magic Forest Meditation
• Snowflakes Whirly Burly Meditation

In this module, you will learn therapeutically designed asanas and pranayama for children. That includes basic stretches and seated postures (Child's Pose, Easy Pose, Seated Forward Bend), standing poses (Warrior, Tree, Chair, Boat), backbends, twists, and core strengthening (Cobra, Bow, Bridge, Plank), and hanging inversions (Scorpion, Shoulder Stand, Legs Up the Wall).

You will also learn creative and entertaining pranayama practices such as Steam Train, Dragon, Bear, Mantra, Ocean, Belly, Bubble, Bunny, Straw, Hissing Humming Bee Bellows, Ha Breath. These help children find mindfulness,s focus, calmness, and breath awareness.

Combined, these promote flexibility, stability, balance, and relaxation in a fun, age-appropriate way.

Our Kids Yoga Teacher Training Course is based on teaching yoga through creative and engaging play, because introducing kids to yoga in a fun, imaginative way helps them to stay motivated, builds self-confidence, and creates an interest in movement they will carry with them through life.

• Freeze Dance Yoga Style: You will learn to combine music and yoga poses to promote creative movement, balance, and focus.
• Yoga Race: You will learn how to design friendly yoga challenges that encourage coordination, cooperation, and a positive energy boost.
• Yoga Challenge: You will learn how to create fun, non-competitive challenges that develop strength, flexibility, and concentration.
• Silly Train: You will learn techniques for connecting yoga poses through imaginative movement, freezing positions, and social interaction.

These games introduce children to yoga in a fun, playful, and mindful way. The learning experience is unforgettable and enjoyable!

In the 95 Hour Kids Yoga Teacher Training Course, the Yoga Philosophy module presents yoga as a deep and enthralling subject for children. You'll discover how to teach yoga meaningfully, looking beyond asana —beyond the postures — to children's heart of hearts: nature, kindness, and happiness.

You’ll learn how ancient sages lived close to nature, in the forests, caves, mountains, and jungle. Their observations of trees, animals, and birds, and their study of these things in nature, gave us many new yoga postures (asanas) and philosophies.

This module presents the eight limbs of yoga simply to children, as well as ideas such as Yama, Niyama, and Swadhyaya, through stories and activities, demonstrating values like honesty, thankfulness, and insight "into ourselves" (self-awareness, subjective or reflective experience, contemplation).

And regarding those benefits, you’ll also learn how to explain to kids the rewards of yoga: flexibility, strength, peace, and joy. Make clear to them that happiness is something innate.

By using prayers, mindfulness, and gentle contemplation, we explore new methods to help the inherent wisdom in each child develop.

As a result of this module, you will gain advice on the nutritional needs of different ages so that you can tailor your lessons at school accordingly:

• 2-3 years old: How to encourage adventure in food and simple choices that are good for your health.
• 4-8 years old: When habits start, by introducing both variety and balance, you lay the foundation for lifelong nutrition and physical activity habits that children will get used to throughout boarding school.
• 9-13 years old: How growing bodies and inquiring minds can be given a helping hand with good, all-around food.
• 14-18 years old: You‘ll learn now exactly how to promote awareness as well as Responsibility for food choices through the teenage years.

Purpose of This Module

In this section, you’ll learn how to teach children the A-B-Cs of nutrition —not by strict rules, but in a fun and imaginative way. You can use this to teach children about balance, focus, energy, and how food supports body balance from youth into adulthood — all of which are key to a high-quality life!

Kids Yoga Builds Self-Esteem

• Why: Yoga allows children to discover their potential, meet head-on challenges, and feel good about their own successes, thus giving them a sense of self-worth.
• How: Through performing age-appropriate poses together with games that demand skill, children will acquire new and varied talents that they can be proud of.

Kids' Yoga Strengthens a Healthy Body

• Why: Yoga aids physical progress by raising flexibility and encouraging an attractive posture, and fostering vibrant activity.
• How: With light exercise, children strengthen their muscles and build up their bodies so that they can stay in shape for life.

Kids Yoga Trains Concentration

• Why: Yoga helps children to grow in mental attention and concentration power in all areas of study and daily life.
• How: Simple breathing exercises, balances and brief moments of mindfulness teach children to focus and remain present.

Kids' Yoga Helps Relax

• Why: Yoga teaches children to still the mind and tame the emotions, helping them remain calm even in frightening circumstances, reducing stress and anxiety in their lives.
• How: Yoga techniques, mindful breathing, and relaxation exercises gently relieve pain. This is the water they need to overcome their difficulties.

Kids' Yoga Is Equitable

• Why: Yoga encourages team spirit, tolerance and understanding, making children appreciate and work with diversity.
• How: Partner poses, group activities and team games bring children close to others, teaching empathy for one's surroundings. They also nurture everyone's ability to interact equally with society.

Kids' Yoga Is Mindfulness Of Life

• Why: Mindfulness helps children observe their thoughts and feelings without prejudice, thereby increasing their knowledge of themselves.
• How: Practices like body scans, breathing exercises, and short meditation subtly guide children to focus on the current moment.

Kids Yoga Through Stories and Songs

• Why: Yoga is made more engaging and attractive for children through stories and music.
• How: Movement is combined with memory in animal postures, rhymes and storytelling. It actively encourages participation among children.

Kids' Yoga Develops Balance and Coordination

• Why: To develop physical and mental abilities, and increase harmony in one's life, must begin with the two basic concepts--balance and coordination.
• How: Balancing postures with dynamism and light movements that are combined in various fun ways to help children remember, increase understanding of the body, and sense one's own position: relative in time and space.