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Children's Yoga & Mindfulness Teacher Training

Are you interested in a rewarding career change? Perhaps you're a school teacher wanting to improve your students wellbeing? Or a yoga teacher wanting to extend your offer to children? Or a parent wanting to teach these important lessons of holistic wellbeing in an engaging and playful way. This specialist yoga teacher training for children will enable you to teach children's yoga in many different contexts. 

Diversity Scholarship: For people who identify as coming from Black, Asian, dual heritage and minority ethnic groups. I wish to actively support your training to bring more yoga and mindfulness teachers into wellness professions from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds to address the imbalance in power, privilege and identity. Please email me for more information.

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    With other trainees in the supportive community space

  • Live and pre-recorded 

    Video sessions

  • 40 hours

    Course duration

  • Children's Yoga Cards and Stories 

    Free of charge
    What you are going to learn

    A few more words about this course

    This course is a 40 hour specialist yoga training certified by Yoga Alliance Professionals. It includes practical and theoretical training in yoga history and philosophy, child development, anatomy and physiology and outstanding teaching practice and methods. This course is taught by Jess, a child and adolescent psychotherapist and a senior yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance professionals. The course has a focus on practical teaching practice, child development and methodology supported by evidence-based research in attachment and neurobiology.

    You will learn:

    • Child Development, Anatomy and Physiology
    • How to Teach Children's Yoga
    • Directory of Themed Yoga Poses and Rhymes
    • Yoga Anatomy and Physiology
    • Yoga History and Philosophy
    • Yoga Business
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    A note from Jess

    This training has been in the making for ten years. I made my first yoga illustration in 2013 whilst pregnant with my first daughter. Since then I have taught yoga to children and adolescents in a range of settings; public events, festivals, retreats, mental health settings, charities, hospices and schools (to name a few)! The process of creating this training has been similar to the way children create and play without a final piece in mind. It has not been about getting to the end, but about enjoying the process. I would love if you explored the training with the same attitude. I’ve been playful and creative and gradually pulled together my learning into one place. The fact it has taken me ten years means there is a fullness to it. Weaved between the words are my experiences of joy, frustration, satisfaction, creativity, loss, grief, new life, motherhood and balancing my career with a family. It is an amalgamation of my work in child development, teaching, psychotherapy, yoga and creativity. It integrates many parts of me. Sometimes I feel I’m writing as a mother with nurture and care, sometimes as a therapist with attention to underlying processes, and sometimes as a teacher, knowing how to engage and structure sessions. The illustrator within me has certainly enjoyed creating the beautiful layout and catalogue of seasonal yoga poses. The analytical part of me has pieced together the research puzzle of western and eastern psychology.   I hope you enjoy the training in the same way it was created. With the same playful process. It isn’t necessary to navigate beginning to end, pick the bits which intuitively grab your attention. The self-paced nature of this training means you can absorb the part that resonates with you, explore it, play with it, let it land then come back again for more.

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    Jessica Colacicco

    Specialist psychotherapist and yoga teacher

    About

    Theraplay with Jess provides psychotherapy, yoga, training packages and workshops throughout the year, with each addressing specific aspects of supporting children, young people, families and professionals.

    Reviews

    "I took my daughter and her two friends to family yoga with Jess today. We all really enjoyed it. The one and half hour session flew by and Jess picked a great balance of yoga, family fun, yoga crafts and many moments interweaved with silence that the children could integrate. As a yoga teacher and teacher of children myself, it was an honour to see Jess in action and learn from her."
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    "I took my childminding children to experience a toddler yoga class with Jessica today and it was really lovely! Jessica was so welcoming and the session was tailored around the children with lots of variety to keep them engaged and focused. The quiet and dark relaxation time complete with twinkly lights was magical. We will definitely be attending more classes. Thank you."
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