This course is built around:

Social Emotional Learning

Social and emotional learning (SEL) is the process through which all young people and adults acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible decisions. SEL can help address various forms of inequity and empower young people and adults to co-create thriving schools and contribute to safe, healthy, and just communities.

Social Justice

Social change takes intentional and sustained work. The practice and philosophy of yoga can be used as a tool to support social change. Gail Parker, PhD, a psychologist, yoga therapist, and president of the board of directors of the Black Yoga Teachers Alliance notes: the first step to dealing with racial stress and trauma is self-study: “Individuals make up the system. If individuals aren’t doing their own inner work around race and ethnicity, then nothing changes.”

Mental and Physical Health

Children can’t learn if their nervous systems are activated. Yoga helps children regulate their nervous systems so they can focus and learn. Regulating their nervous systems helps manage stress. Yoga enhances focus, concentration, comprehension and memory. Poses support physical fitness by improving posture, balance, coordination, and body awareness. Yoga philosophy supports an atmosphere of confidence, enthusiasm, and non-competitiveness by emphasizing the "we" over "me."

This Foundation Module covers everything you need to start teaching yoga to children. It counts as 30 hours of continuing ed through 8 Limbs Yoga Centers OR 32 hours towards the 95-hour RCYT credential through Liberation Youth Yoga.  

The module is split into four parts:

1. "Into": Background Knowledge - Yoga Philosophy, Western Philosophy, Social Justice

2. "Through": Being the Student - Personal Yoga Practice, Why Kids Need Yoga, Why Yoga Works

3. "Beyond": Being the Teacher - Ethics, Methods, Management

4. "Launch": Ahimsa Unit - What is Yoga?, Interception, The Pause, Poses, Mindful Eating Celebration

Beginning is as easy as 1 - 2 - 3:

1. Once you register, a student journal with log-in information will be mailed to you. The student journal will be where you complete assignments. 

2. Log in and watch the navigation video. Then begin the course. All the information you will need will be online and in your student journal.

3. This course should take you roughly 10 weeks. Once you are finished, send us your completed student journal for review and course certification.

 Please allow 5-7 business days for us to process your registration.

Yoga Alliance Categories for 30-Hour Foundation Training:

• Techniques, Training & Practice = 8

• Anatomy & Physiology = 6

• Teaching Methodology = 4

• Philosophy, Ethics & Lifestyle = 12