Online with Support! Join us for our 12 week Level 1 Training, offered online with lots of support, the ability to get your questions answered, interaction with fellow students, access to weekly office hours and a ton of bonus resources.

This training is the heart of our program, and can be taken as a stand alone course to qualify as an LFY L1 Trained Instructor.  It is also part of our certification program. Certification requirements include: Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, Trauma-Informed Teaching, Chair Yoga for Children, Supporting Neurodiverse Children, Teaching Practicum, and Mentorship (online). Register for certification and save with bundle pricing.

Training includes access to our private LFY Learning Community. This space allows you to access your course contents in an easy to use format (including with an app), learn from and collaborate with fellow participants, and receive support from LFY faculty including weekly office hours.

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LEARN HOW TO HELP BUILD RESILIENCE IN THE NEXT GENERATION

Kids need healthy skills to help them thrive in the world and navigate the many challenges they face. Yoga and mindfulness practices give them practical ways to increase their self-awareness, access their innate resilience, and find their personal power—all while having fun! This training provides you with the understanding and tools you need to share yoga and mindfulness with children and teens in a playful, effective way that is also trauma-informed.

You’ll begin with an in-depth exploration of how the relationship between the brain, the body, and the nervous system affects child development. Then you’ll dive into the 5 Element framework of the Little Flower Yoga approach—connect, breathe, move, focus, and relax—and explore a wide range of practices that you can immediately implement with the kids in your life.

You‘ll complete this course with a deeper understanding of child development; the capacity and confidence to create lessons that meet children’s needs; and the skills to teach in a safe, engaging, and compassionate way.

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WHO IS THIS TRAINING FOR? 

People from diverse backgrounds and experiences participate in this training, including classroom teachers, yoga instructors, mental healthcare providers, occupational therapists, caregivers, coaches and more. The main thing they share is a desire to give kids tools to embrace joy and build resilience, regardless of their circumstances.

You do not need to be a yoga teacher or an advanced practitioner to participate in this training, but we recommend you have some basic yoga experience.

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WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

Through a combination of engaging lectures, practice videos, reflection, and journaling work, you will:

• Learn a clear, structured framework that will allow you to easily teach an integrated experience of yoga and mindfulness to kids in any setting, including schools, yoga studios, community spaces, and homes.
• Gain tools to create a physically and emotionally safer space for learning.
• Explore how to make yoga poses accessible, safe, and engaging.
• Learn techniques for teaching developmentally appropriate breathwork and mindfulness to children.
• Gain a greater understanding of how mindfulness and yoga can support the healthy development of the brain, body, and nervous system.
• Learn mindfulness-based classroom management strategies so you can navigate difficult behaviors skillfully and effectively.
• Learn to teach from a trauma-informed perspective.
• Deepen your own yoga and mindfulness practice.