Your Yoga Toolkit
A Course for Early Childhood Wellbeing
Learn to facilitate yoga & transform children's wellbeing and your early childhood environment in just a few weeks!
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
A children's yoga program is:
🟡 Play based, which means yoga is more accessible for you & the children in the early childhood environment.
🟡 Holistic - caters for all learners & all areas of development.
🟡 Meaningful content which is based on scientific evidence & your own early childhood developmental knowledge.
🟡 Fun, so that it engages all children & educators!
🟡 Imaginative & creative! Use songs, poems, music, dance, yoga poses, movement, games, puppets, musical instruments & more!
Watch this to hear a more about Your Yoga Toolkit
Online Community
✔ Learning modules are easily accessible anytime for your convenience.
✔ Network with other like minded professionals in a designated Facebook community.
Support
✔ Past coaching sessions available to watch on replay.
✔ Email support during the program to assist you as you work through the modules.
Weekly Training
✔ Live recorded video training.
✔ Learn what each of the elements of an early childhood education yoga program looks like
✔ How to step into your own confidence as a yoga facilitator.
✔All training is 100% relatable to the early childhood environment.
Weekly Session Plans
✔ We unpack 10 session plans. So you see exactly how to plan a session and what a session looks like.
✔ Bonus -Receive the 10 session plans in an eBook for accessibility & convenience.
"I enjoyed the way the course showed me exactly how a yoga program in EC looks and how to facilitate it".
Sam Theron
Your Yoga Toolkit Course guides you through a step by step process that makes learning about yoga super simple.
✔ What yoga looks like for young children.
✔ How to implement yoga in your early childhood environment.
You will have everything you need to create a successful early childhood yoga program to impact children's wellbeing.
Without having done yoga before or with very minimal experience!
What's included?
Inside the course
"Thanks for helping me push down those barriers. Will definitely be embracing doing wellness and yoga days more often. The children were calm, I was calm".
Lyndal Long
"Simple and clear yoga sessions that can easily be incorporated into an early childhood program. Easy to use the whole or just part of each session depending on needs/ interests of group or time/space constraints".
Sue Weidermannn
"Very happy to be a part of this learning platform. 100/100."
Priti Rathod
This course will increase your confidence in your ability to create & facilitate an early childhood yoga program so that you gain more knowledge on how to support children's wellbeing in your environment.
Even if you have very limited yoga experience!
Do you want to lead your yoga session with confidence?
Would you like to implement amazing yoga programs in your early childhood environment?
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
I don't know anything about yoga. Is this course still suitable for me?
Yes! The only criteria is to have some mobility. As long as you can do the usual dancing, singing, sitting on the floor, standing on one leg and so on, you will be able to do this course. Yoga for children is simply movement and stillness.
The rest you will learn!
How does yoga work?
Yoga brings focus to the physical body and your senses. As we begin to connect more to our physical body, we begin to 'turn inwards'. We start to notice how we feel both mentally and physically. This awareness then starts to filter into a deeper understanding of how we can help to self regulate ourselves as well as noticing thoughts that come into our minds. It helps to sift through the chatter in our heads and we are able to use our logical thinking to solve problems instead of using our emotional thinking.
Where can I get access to this course?
This course entails 10 weeks of training originally conducted in a Facebook group, where we covered 1 session plan per week. This content is now available outside of Facebook on an online learning platform that you will receive access to once purchased.
Although you can still opt in to join the Facebook group, it is not necessary unless you would like to.
Feel free to binge watch or pace yourself over a period of time. It is suggested though, to spend a week on each plan so that you can have time to implement it with the children to become more familiar with the session plan. This assists you to build confidence & familiarity with the yoga you are facilitating.
How long do I have access to the course?
You have ongoing access to the course. You can jump in and out of the course anytime you like.
Can I teach yoga to children outside of my immediate care, after this course?
No, this course is only intended for you to use with the children in your direct care. You will not be qualified to run children's yoga sessions outside of your home or your early learning environment. This is not a certified course and is only intended to support your skills in a more meaningful and safe way so that you can extend on your yoga knowledge.
Do I receive a certificate of completion?
If you would like one, please email info@southeastyogaandwellbeing.com with the name you would like on the certificate and I'll be happy to forward you one.
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.