The day Yoga Australia asked me to write the standards for children’s yoga in Australia, was a full circle moment.
Looking back, I can clearly remember teaching my first kids yoga class (to a not-so-well behaved group of teen girls) and what an exhilarating & heart-filling 20 year journey of teaching kids yoga it had been.
From the messy beginnings, to the thousands of classes I’d taught, and the thousands of children and teens in those classes who experienced the ever present stillness inside.
Now, here I was, creating the standards for children’s yoga in Australia and speaking, training and mentoring thousands of adults on how to teach children’s yoga in way that is educational, meaningful, fun and makes a massive difference to their lives. (The kids and the adults :)
It was also an important moment for Yoga Australia, to maintain their status as the peak governing body of yoga in Australia, whilst elevating the standards for kids yoga worldwide.
Yoga Australia Members had asked for help and they could see there was a growing need for tools and training in kids yoga.
One yoga teacher of 2 years, Gail, had been asked to teach yoga at her local high school, and after one class realised she was out of her depth and not equipped.
Recognising that teaching yoga to adults is vastly different to teaching kids, Yoga Australia created a Kids Yoga Committee. This was a hub to champion all things Kids Yoga, to create new standards, by someone who had long been teaching kids yoga (me) and to support the community of teachers who needed help.
The standards to be a Kids Yoga Teacher in Australia was based on Zenergy Yoga’s experience of teaching over 20,000 hours of yoga to thousands of kids and teens of all ages (me again).
The aim was to ensure that everyone who trains as a kids yoga teacher, understands the needs of kids, how teaching kids yoga is completely different to teaching adults’ and how to make a difference through yoga..
The new standards launched and, at the time, became the most comprehensive international standards for kids yoga.
I’m proud that the Zenergy Kids Yoga Certificate Courses are the only registered, endorsed and accredited courses with Yoga Australia, Yoga Alliance, Aus Active and the IYTA.
Moreover, I’m grateful I get to do something every day that I’m passionate about and with amazing people who are making a difference in the world.
Every week, my inbox has messages from graduates who have success stories of classes they taught and little lives they’ve helped.
I’m proud of all the phenomenal beings our business gets to serve, people like Monica, who built a children’s yoga studio and is an important part of her community, or Karen, who teaches 3-5 year olds, 5 days a week in ECH centres and they LOVE her, or Katie, who is the highlight of hundreds of children and teens lives every week.
They started just like you. A feeling that grew into an idea of helping children while doing a job you love.
Waking up passionate about what you do and seeing little faces of joy and teens happy and de-stressed again, and deeply grateful that someone gets them and can help them. A safe place.
Do you want to make a difference with kids & teens ? Love yoga and know it can help?
Want the formula for teaching classes that work, that impact, engage and flow smoothly without any classroom management issues ?
Then come join us and get certified as an Internationally Accredited Children’s Yoga Teacher.
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Really hope I get to see you at one of the upcoming courses and help you get started on your journey of impacting lives.
Loraine x
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