Do you know how to support and enhance the physical, emotional, and cognitive development and all-around wellbeing of a child?
This course is designed to provide a detailed understanding of the nature of the physical, emotional, and cognitive development of a child and how to use the practice of yoga in your daily work with children with attention disorders and difficulties, so as to bring them visible benefits. This course will teach you practice techniques and methods to help a child to learn mindfulness, with a focus on breathing techniques, calming exercises, and story therapy. You will learn proven scenarios for leading activities focused on working with hyperactive children and those with learning difficulties.
Yoga Therapy for Children and Teens
This course will give you all of the skills, knowledge, resources, and confidence you need to start teaching yoga to kids. By undertaking this foundation-level children’s yoga course, you will gain knowledge of the following areas:
- Combination of yoga and mindfulness
- The art of breathing in yoga
- Simple techniques to increase mindfulness
- Stories and fairy tales adapted to the needs of yoga for children
If you are interested in developing your career in teaching yoga to children or simply want to incorporate yoga into your classroom, sports field, home, or therapy sessions, take a look at what we offer.
Parents attending the course can find new ways to connect with their children and share a healthy, fun, and non-competitive movement-based activity with their families.
It is ideal for anyone who wants to expand a current related profession or learn a new one!
By the end of this course, you will have all of the need-to-know information about children's development and how it relates to learning yoga, you will learn how to teach excellent yoga classes that keep kids fully engaged and having fun.
What is Yoga Therapy and what are the Benefits of Yoga for Young People?
Yoga is a combination of mindful movement, breathing, and meditation - helping children, and teenagers with or without SEN feel calm and develop motor skills, balance, strength, and coordination. Therapeutic yoga works on individual goals for children, addressing their specific physical as well as cognitive and social/emotional needs.
When adapted to be age-appropriate, children can find yoga engaging, interesting and fun. This alone would be reason enough to add it into their routine, especially when you consider the physical benefits of helping to develop their balance and flexibility.
The benefits of yoga for children with or without SEND have been well researched demonstrating that yoga ‘increased balance and coordination, increased self-esteem and social communication skills’ (Kenny, 2002), improves ‘balance, flexibility and coordination’ (White, 2017) and for young children with special needs, yoga improves concentration, focus, and creativity' (Mochan 2017).
During the course you will learn:
How to..
.. use practical exercises and techniques that you can easily incorporate into your daily work with a child struggling to focus, e.g. breathing training, calming exercises, or mindfulness training.
How to..
.. use of story therapy in yoga practice, i.e. how to use fairy tales to train a child in mindfulness and also teach them the basic asanas used in the practice of yoga through playing with fairy tales.
How to..
.. combine yoga with mindfulness practice, explore and recognise the power of proper breathing. How to experience the joy of affirmations, understand the mindset, and how to use yoga and mindfulness with children with difficulties such as hyperactivity or learning difficulties.
Course author:
Joanna Kolyszko-Tomasik
Certified yoga teacher using the Iyengar method. For years, she has been successfully conducting classes for children and adults - targeting a specific problem - both beginner and advanced groups, group classes, and individual therapy.
She has developed an original exercise programme for people with cervical spine problems.
She has attended and regularly participates in continuing education workshops with teachers from Poland and internationally.
She has been a guest on morning television shows and co-hosted yoga sessions with Ashley Sergant (internationally recognised yoga instructor), during a yoga record-breaking event in Poland.
She holds a master's degree in pedagogy.
What are the benefits of regular yoga practice specifically for children with special needs and disabilities?
Sometimes children can feel stressed and anxious and keeping them calm can prove to be quite a challenge. For those early years practitioners that are interested in trying new tools, yoga can definitely offer an alternative and a great introduction to mindfulness. There are so many benefits to Yoga for children, it can support their mental health and wellbeing and help to focus the mind. In our busy, constantly stimulated world it can be really hard for children to find ways to switch off & calm down.
- Improved motor and muscular functions and self-regulation
- Relaxed nervous system, leading to lower anxiety levels
- Improvement in focus, coordination, and communication skills
- Better blood circulation and brain oxygenation, thus better cognition
- Improved level of physical awareness
- Improved behaviour, emotional balance, and ability to transition from one activity to another
Regular yoga practice helps with overall physical and mental health. Therefore contributing to the possible prevention of diseases such as diabetes, acute anxiety, low bone density, asthma, and obesity. All problems pose an increasing threat to the development of our children today.
What will you gain by taking part in the course?
New, current threads
During the lectures of this course, you will gain full insights into practice techniques and methods to help your child learn mindfulness, with a focus on breathing techniques, calming exercises, and story therapy. Parents attending the course can find new ways to connect with their children and share a healthy, fun, and non-competitive movement-based activity with their families. It is also ideal for anyone who wants to expand a current related profession or learn a new one.
New skills
By taking this course, you will learn how to teach fun, engaging, and safe yoga classes to children. The course will help you learn how to adapt and modify postures for various groups. By the end of this course, you’ll have the skills on how to use story therapy in yoga practice, i.e. how to use fairy tales to teach children mindfulness and also teach them the basic asanas used in the practice of yoga through playing with fairy tales.
Practice
The course covers a range of areas related to yoga and mindfulness for children. The course will increase the learners' understanding of all aspects related to this area and also introduce suggested practices, exercises, and activities to work with children with attention deficit disorder and difficulty in concentration. You will learn how therapeutic yoga works on individual goals for children, addressing their specific physical as well as cognitive and social/emotional needs. This course will also show how yoga pairs the combination of controlled breathing, strength building, balance, awareness, and meditation in creating the right balance for children, and teenagers with or without SEN.
Availability
You will have access to all materials in a convenient form online around the clock, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, so you can learn where, how, and when you want by using downloadable resources such as notes, videos, slides, factsheets, assessments and highlighted key points in each course section which are helping you to keep on track, as well as improve your results.
Certification
Once you have completed the course you will receive a personal document confirming participation in the course.
You will be able to download your certificate of completion from 'my panel' on the UniqSkills platform and share your new skills online.
Syllabus:
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Module 1 - YOGA FOR CHILDREN WITH ELEMENTS OF MINDFULNESS PRACTICE |
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Yoga and mindfulness - ways to use mindfulness practice when practising yoga for children |
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Breathing training - pranayama - a way of using breathing techniques and focusing on the breath in practising mindfulness for children |
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Calming exercises - example exercises to help your child understand and control their own emotions |
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Mindfulness techniques - simple practices to help your child focus on being in the here and now e.g. talk about what you see" |
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Fairy tales and stories in the service of concentration training - methods to support the child in maintaining focus |
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Module 2 - INTEGRAL YOGA IN WORKING WITH A CHILD WITH CONCENTRATION DISORDERS |
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Integral yoga - applications and therapeutic possibilities |
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Mindful Movement - examples of practices used in daily work with the child to help train concentration, calmness, and mindfulness |
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Asanas and storytelling - a ready-made lesson in which, through the use of storytelling, children will learn the asanas used in yoga |
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Case study - a practical yoga lesson scenario adapted to work with hyperactive children and children with learning difficulties |
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Completion of the Course |
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Yoga Therapy for Children and Teens
- Expert Trainer
- Certificate of completion
- 24/7 access to a modern platform
- Access on mobile and tablets
- On-demand videos
- Downloadable resources
- Suggested study: 3 days, 3 hrs per day
Online course Yoga Therapy
+ E-book Yoga For Children. Scripts and cards for working with children.
- Expert Trainer
- Certificate of completion
- 24/7 access to a modern platform
- Access on mobile and tablets
- On-demand videos
- Notes and factsheets
- List of exercises and activities
- Downloadable resources
- Suggested study: 6 weeks, 2hrs per week
- E-book Yoga For Children. Scripts and cards for working with children