Kids Yoga Teacher Training

Sundari Integral Yoga^©for Children Teacher Training

Learn to share the joy of yoga with children through play, creativity, and mindful guidance.

Yoga is indeed a way of life, and it’s never too soon to begin. Teaching yoga to children is a truly rewarding path, allowing you to nurture their natural energy, creativity, and inner balance. With the Sundari Integral Yoga^© for Children Teacher Training Course, you’ll gain the knowledge and confidence to share yoga with children in a way that is meaningful, engaging, and developmentally appropriate. This training blends playfulness with purpose, teaching you how to share yoga with children in ways that nurture focus, joy, and creativity. Learn to guide the next generation with tools that spark both movement and mindfulness.

About the Training

This course provides a strong foundation in both theory and practice, preparing you to become a skilled and compassionate children’s yoga teacher. What makes this training unique is its integration of Hridaya Yoga principles with a wide variety of yoga methodologies—adapted specifically for children’s developmental milestones.

You’ll learn how to design classes that combine playfulness and structure, helping children to explore yoga as a path to movement, mindfulness, creativity, and emotional wellbeing. From early childhood through adolescence, this training equips you to meet the needs of different age groups with sensitivity and confidence.

Certification & Recognition

Upon graduation, you’ll receive a certificate that qualifies you to individually register for Yoga Alliance’s Registered Children’s Yoga Teacher (RCYT) specialty credential, opening doors to teach in schools, yoga studios, community centers, and beyond.

Why This Training Matters

• Empowers the next generation with tools for focus, resilience, and emotional balance.

• Make yoga joyful by weaving together stories, games, breathwork, and mindfulness.

• Supports healthy development by aligning yoga with children’s growth stages.

• Transforms lives—both theirs and yours—through a path of creativity, connection, and care.

Benefits

• Learn specialized techniques to engage children through movement, play, and mindfulness.

• Gain tools to support children’s focus, creativity, and emotional balance.

• Develop skills to create safe, fun, and age-appropriate yoga classes.

• Explore ways to inspire confidence and wellbeing in young minds.

• Graduate as a certified Children’s Yoga Teacher, equipped to share yoga with future generations.

Theoretical Framework of the Teachings

The Sundari Integral Yoga^© CTTC tailors Yoga practices for children, focusing on understanding two essential aspects: the correct practice of yoga techniques and the needs of children at different stages of development.

This course is structured around the widely accepted progressive stages of child development, considering the various factors influencing growth, including genetics, cognition, physical abilities, family, culture, nutrition, education, and environment.

You’ll learn theoretical and practical teaching methodologies for the main developmental groups of children: toddlers, preschoolers, elementary school students, pre-teens, and teenagers. This includes games, asanas, children’s yoga stories emphasizing Hridaya concepts, breathing exercises, meditation, and relaxation techniques.

You will study about the child development, the patterns of growth, from which guidelines for “normal” progress are constructed. This knowledge is alowing a holistic approach that sees the child as a whole person—physically, emotionally, intellectually, socially, morally, culturally, and spiritually.

Yoga for Children Teaching Methodology

The Sundari CTTC covers concepts related to the learning process, teaching styles, and how to teach yoga techniques tailored to each child’s developmental stage. During these sessions, you will learn how to provide professional assistance to children while correcting their yoga practice. The teachers will explain how to create stories for the children’s yoga classes, structure a children’s yoga class, and discuss theoretical concepts related to games, asanas, meditation, breathing, and mindfulness for children.

You will also learn about the personal qualities a yoga teacher should develop, including practical communication skills for interacting with children, and how to establish a harmonious and respectful relationship between yoga teachers and children, as well as between yoga teachers and parents or guardians. You will also explore class management skills and learn how to troubleshoot potential challenges.

YCTTC Curriculum

The course offers you an in-person Children’s Yoga Teacher Training (CYTTC) and includes lectures, practical exercises, Hridaya Hatha Yoga sessions, games, stories, and many other fun activities. The practical sessions include the correct execution and the theoretical learning about the benefits and the effects of:

• Yogic breathing, meditation, and relaxation techniques for children

• Games for children’s yoga classes

• The creation of stories that include Hridaya concepts and yoga techniques (asana, breathing, chanting, notions about yama and niyama, etc)

• Theoretical sessions: benefits and scientific studies, and programs in modern schools regarding yoga for children

• Children’s anatomy and physiology applied to the various developmental stages

• The subtle structure of the human being: nadis, “energy channels,” chakras, “energy centers,” pancha kosha, “the five layers of the human brain,” the three levels of manifestation (physical, astral, and causal), kundalini energy, jivatma, “the soul,” Atma, the “eternal Self,” and The Hridaya Space—applied to adults and children

• The philosophy of the yoga system is explored, encompassing the yamas and niyamas, which are the ethics and moral codes applied to adults and children. The three fundamental principles in yoga practice are also described, along with the three gunas, which represent the three primary qualities of nature. Additionally, you’ll learn how the Hridaya Attitudes are used in teaching children.

• How to approach children’s yoga practice

• Healthy lifestyle notions—for adults and children

• Ethics of the children’s yoga teacher profession

Upon completion of the YCTTC, you’ll receive a comprehensive, illustrated Yoga for Children Teacher’s Manual, approximately 360 pages in length, that contains all the necessary theoretical and practical information for becoming a skilled children’s yoga teacher.

Teachers

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Add-On Wellness Experiences

To deepen your journey, we offer personalized add-ons designed to support your growth and wellbeing. These optional experiences can be integrated into your Teacher Training or Retreat program, creating a truly holistic path of transformation.

Available on request:

• Acupuncture Treatments — Restore balance and stimulate the body’s natural healing energy.

• Integrative Therapies — A blend of holistic approaches tailored to your individual needs.

• Yoga Therapy or/and Yoga Coaching— Personalized sessions that adapt yoga practices for healing, alignment, and inner balance.

These extras are thoughtfully curated to complement your training or retreat, giving you the space to recharge, realign, and expand on every level—body, mind, and spirit.