Kids Yoga Teacher Training
Promoting Active Bodies, Healthy Minds and Happy Hearts in kids of all ages!
Learn how to plan and deliver fun, impactful, and engaging kids yoga classes for all ages.
This comprehensive Kids Yoga Teacher Training will empower you to feel capable and confident to teach engaging, meaningful, and impactful yoga and mindfulness programs for kids and teens of all ages in a variety of settings.
You’ll Learn:
The 6 principles to effective, meaningful and engaging kids yoga classes
Our tried and tested lesson plan framework that will set you up for success
How kids yoga differs from adults yoga
Child development and anatomy
How to teach to all age groups from preschool through year 12
Age-appropriate yoga poses
Breathing techniques for each age group
Yoga games and partner yoga
Foundational mindfulness practices
How to create guided relaxations
The secret ingredient to keeping kids engaged in your classes
Positive classroom management tools and techniques
How to be a great kids yoga teacher
The business of teaching Kids Yoga and how to get started
You will leave with a tool kit of age appropriate:
Yoga poses
Games and Partner poses
Mindfulness activities
Breathing techniques
Meditations
Our tried and tested lesson plan template that takes all the guesswork out of planning an effective class so you can teach confidently and authentically. And,
Positive Classroom management strategies.
After this training you’ll have the framework, tools, strategies and class plans to start teaching kids class straightaway. 🎊
Online and in-person hybrid training options
2 GREAT OPTIONS
1. Self-paced online FUNdamentals of Kids Yoga only $795 (Non-certified)
Complete the online elements at your leisure in your own time, you’ll receive the mindful thriving kids framework, kids yoga theories and techniques, classroom management strategies and class plans to get you started teaching yoga to kids.
A perfect introduction to kids yoga and mindfulness. Fully online, complete in your own time, non-certified (there are no assessments or course work to be completed).
Suitable for educators, yoga teachers, allied health professionals, therapists and parents.
No prior yoga training is required to complete this training …. or needed to be a great kids yoga teacher!
2. Advanced Kids Yoga Teacher Training only $1295
The Advanced Program is an accredited Yoga Australia Kids Yoga Teacher Training (50hour)
Enhance your teaching skills with the Advanced Training
Dive deeper, building your knowledge base and skill level which opens up a range of opportunities for teaching Kids Yoga and unlocking the potential for a highly rewarding new career path.
You’ll learn how to:
Create your own yoga programs for any age group
Design, develop and deliver yoga and mindfulness classes and programs in schools that meaningfully align with the curriculum.
Develop your leadership skills and enhance your classroom management skills
Use effective yoga strategies for children with anxiety and ADHD and learn how to teach yoga to children with additional needs.
In person
16 & 17th May 2026
Self-paced online learning, planning and teaching reflections and put learning into practice when we meet in person Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th May at Moksha Academy of Yoga, Bentleigh, Melbourne, Australia
Fully online
receive online support and assessment
Self-paced online learning, planning and teaching reflections with additional online support and assessment for certification
With both trainings you’ll receive:
A comprehensive manual with kid friendly yoga poses, breathing practices, mindfulness activities, and guided meditations.
Lesson plans for each age group so you’re ready to teach as soon as you complete the course, and,
You’ll became a member of our Thriving Kids Yoga Teachers community where we celebrate each other’s achievements, share ideas and support one another to make a difference to children’s lives.
Why choose our training?
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Safe & Accessible
Learn to teach safe and accessible yoga classes to different age groups. You’ll understand the difference between kids yoga and adults yoga, and offer inspiring yoga classes that support physical, mental and emotional health and wellbeing. No previous yoga experience required!
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Fun & Engaging
Follow our proven framework to plan, structure and sequence an effective, engaging and meaningful yoga class and feel confident that you have all the right ingredients to make an impact while having fun.
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Make a Difference
Learn how yoga and mindfulness can help to reduce anxiety, build resilience and promote self-belief in kids of all ages. Teach powerful tools that children can use through their lifetime! Plant seeds of calm, peace, kindness, gratitude, positivity, and happiness.
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A Career in Kids Yoga
Not only will you learn the tools and techniques to make a difference to the lives of kids and teens but you’ll also gain the skills that can set you up in a whole new rewarding career as a kids yoga teacher, offering you a variety of work opportunities.
I’m ready to make a difference!
Who is this training for?
This course is for anyone who loves to work with children of all ages, wants to make a difference, and is passionate about yoga and mindfulness. You do not need to be a Yoga Teacher to teach kids yoga, although some experience of yoga is preferred. This course is suitable for yoga teachers, primary and secondary school teachers, after-school and holiday program facilitators and parents.
Program delivery
Online & In-Person Hybrid Training: Giving you the flexibility to complete all modules (and assessment if completing certified Advanced program) online at your own pace.
If completing Advanced fully online training and wishing to receive accreditation - assessments must be completed within 12 months of registration. Assessment is not required if you wish to complete the training but do not require the Yoga Australia certification.
Any questions? Email me hello@mindfulthrivingkids.com
Why choose Mindful Thriving Kids?
Vic has 25 years experience of working with children and youth. Originally working as a Youth Worker, designing, and delivering health and wellbeing courses that empowered youth to be the best versions of themselves. Since training as a Yoga Teacher and Kids Yoga teacher Vic has gone on to make a difference to the lives of thousands of children and youth over the past 11 years. Teaching in schools, kindergartens, working with Local Authorities to run mindfulness for teen programs, teaching private yoga sessions for children additional needs, Vic has run yoga sessions for families, at yoga parties, run wellbeing programs for teachers and delivered yoga teacher training for educators. Training with Vic is guaranteed to be fun, engaging, meaningful and insightful with up-to-date best practices. You’ll walk away with a toolbox full of kids yoga strategies and activities, and feel confident to deliver yoga classes that make a difference!
FAQs
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No, not at all. Level 1 FUNdamentals is suitable for anyone who wishes to share the benefits of yoga and mindfulness with kids and teens.
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Yes! Once you have completed the FUNdamentals course you will be able to teach kids yoga in schools, daycare and run after schools programs.
If you are a Yoga Teacher you can register these 15 hours as part of your continuing professional development.
If you also complete the Level 2 training you now have the required 50 hours training to be a registered kids yoga teacher with Yoga Australia.
To be a registered kids yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance you need to complete a 95hour kids yoga teacher training. Our Level 3 Senior Kids Yoga Teacher Training will be available soon. Contact us for more details
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Yes, absolutely! In fact, Level 1 training was devised with school teachers, as well as yoga teachers, in mind. You’ll be able to teach some powerful yoga and mindfulness brain breaks in the classroom as well as run full yoga sessions for your students, whether you are a classroom teacher or a PE teacher.
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This is a hybrid of online and in-person
FUNdamentals is fully online
Advanced training is online (self-paced) with the option of in-person in Melbourne over 2 days
Complete the online elements at your leisure in your own time and then practice putting it all together when we meet in person. Or if completing online submit assessment for certification within 12 months of registering.
*In-person is compulsory for certification
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ENROLMENT PROCEDURE
All enrolments can be made online through the Moksha Yoga website at www.mokshayoga.com.au/kids-yoga-teacher-training
Participants undertaking this course are required to finalise payment at the point of enrolment. Final date for all enrolments is Friday 18 October 2024, to allow time for completion of online pre-learning material.
Special Discount Rate on the Fully Accredited 50hr Training is available when enrolling in both Levels 1 & 2 together and saves $495 on the price of purchasing these separately.
Once enrolment and payment has been made, the Moksha Academy Student Withdrawal and Refund Policy will apply (detailed below).
REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION
Level 1: FUNdamentals of Kids Yoga Teaching
12 Contact hours: Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 October 2024 (9:30am – 4:30pm, incl breaks) hosted at Moksha Yoga, Bentleigh VIC
13 Non-contact hours: Self-paced learning with online course material and a comprehensive manual of resources.
Level 2: Advanced Kids Yoga Teaching
12 Contact hours: Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 November 2024 (9:30am – 4:30pm, incl breaks) hosted at Moksha Yoga, Bentleigh VIC
13 Non-contact hours: Self-paced learning with online course material and a comprehensive manual of resources.
GENERAL ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
We welcome applications from participants 18 years of age and over.
The Moksha Academy’s primary intention when considering an enrolment is that the applicant demonstrates potential to successfully complete and succeed on their chosen course, including: effective interpersonal and communication skills; a genuine, empathic and compassionate nature; a mature and responsible outlook; a dedicated willingness to commit to the course in full.
STUDENT WITHDRAWAL & REFUND POLICY
We strongly recommend that before enrolling you ensure you are able to make the commitment to the course in its entirety in order to successfully meet the assessment criteria and graduate. All requests to withdraw from the training must be made in writing and sent via email or post to the Moksha Academy of Yoga.
Where notification of withdrawal is received at least 4 weeksprior to course commencement, the Academy will refund any fees less a non-refundable deposit of $495, including administrative fees to cover the cost of backfilling the vacancy.
Where notification of withdrawal is received 2-4 weeks prior to course commencement, the Academy will refund any fees less the non-refundable deposit of $495, plus $200 administrative fees to cover the cost of backfilling the vacancy.
There is a 7 day refund policy. If you have a change of mind you can reach out to hello@mindfulthrivingkids.com to request a refund, however once access to the online course content has been granted, if the training manual has been downloaded and any modules of the online course material have been completed beyond the Introduction and Welcome, participants are deemed to have received course materials warranting full payment and are not entitled to any refund of fees on notification of withdrawal.
Meet your lead teacher, Vic Crombie, and learn more about the Kids Yoga Teacher Training. 🌸