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Certificate of Completion (5 Professional Development Hours)
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The Magic of Yoga for Early Childhood
Transform children's wellbeing with 5 simple methods
✔ Learn how to facilitate meaningful yoga for the children in your care.
✔ Develop your knowledge of yoga for early childhood.
✔Increase your confidence when facilitating yoga with children.
A course specific to early childhood education and care services!
Why use yoga for children?
✔ Did you know that a meaningful yoga program is a holistic approach to children's wellbeing?
✔ If you facilitated a short 10-30 minute yoga session per day, you could impact children's wellbeing.
✔ After just 1 yoga session, children retain the information they learn & are able to recall it regularly.
✔ Educators have been amazed by the way children embrace yoga & by the difference in their learning environments!
✔ Link your yoga program to the EYLF and VEYDLF Learning Outcomes 1-5 and Practice Principles.
✔ Support children's transition to school by providing tools which will enhance their social and emotional skills
"I learned so many practical ideas that I have been able to implement straight away. I consider myself a confident and capable teacher, but felt yoga was important, but “not my thing”… now I recognise that if I apply the same teaching approaches to planning my yoga/relaxation sessions, I’m able to implement fun and productive experiences".
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This course will show you how simple yoga can be to facilitate in early childhood, even if you have very limited knowledge!
Yoga is accessible to all educators in the sector.
You just need to be shown how & have a willingness to give it a go!
Embedding yoga will transform your early childhood environment!
✔ Children learn to self regulate and develop greater resilience ie they develop emotional intelligence.
✔ Children show a deeper level of respect for themselves, each other and the space (environment) around them.
✔ Children develop greater social skills.
✔ Children deepen their connection to everything around them which builds presence, focus and concentration.
✔Adults learn to slow down, feel calmer and become more mindful.
✔ Work & play in an overall more peaceful environment!
"I felt the training was amazing. I learnt so many new concepts and ways to practice yoga with children. I am feeling more confident and passionate."
SK
Early Childhood Educator
"I was amazed how sound meditation worked, after going around the whole group of 18 each having a turn of a little singing bowl that I took in, I was bombarded with...do it again!."
Jennifer Byfield
Early Childhood Educator
"Many new ideas and reminders on how to bring mindfulness and a calm atmosphere into the group. This will certainly enrich my curriculum".
"Many new ideas and reminders on how to bring mindfulness and a calm atmosphere into the group. This will certainly enrich my curriculum".
Flavia
Early Childhood Educator
A course for educators of early childhood education environments
Learn how to impact children's wellbeing with holistic & meaningful yoga programs plus increase your confidence in becoming the facilitator of your yoga programs.
What do you get in this course?
✔ 5 videos that explore 5 methods so that you know how to impact children's wellbeing with yoga. Each video explores fundamental approaches to facilitating yoga that is guaranteed to make a huge difference to:
➡ your knowledge
➡ your confidence
➡ children's engagement
✔ 5 accompanying workbooks to document information from the videos to assist you with planning & reflecting on your yoga program.
PLUS
✔ Certificate of Completion for Professional Development hours.
Course Curriculum
Hi I'm Nic Russell!
I am an early childhood educator of 30 years, a practising yogi of 20 years and a mother of 3.
My mission is to empower early childhood educators to facilitate yoga in their early childhood environments so that they support & enhance children's wellbeing.
I believe yoga will promote healthy social & emotional developmental outcomes which assists in the transition to school, setting them up to become happier & healthier.
You’ll find me in my element when I’m spruiking the benefits of yoga to the world of early childhood.
I wholeheartedly believe that yoga at this young age will set children up to manage their mental health wellbeing so that they become mindfully healthy citizens of the next generation.
Imagine the power in that! Imagine if every child is given the magic of yoga at such a young age.
Giving children these tools earlier rather than later could potentially have such positive outcomes; to themselves and our society.
A world full of future happier adults who were taught how to self regulate, balance their nervous systems and work with awareness through the clutter of their mind as children! It is possible!
Ask any adult who has done yoga and they will tell you how it’s made a difference to their wellbeing.
I envision a future world of kinder and more tolerant people.