GroovyKids® Yoga Teacher Training
Sep 27-28 & Oct 4-5 2019
About this Training
Based on popular demand, this training returns to Bahrain for the second time! We present to you the highly acclaimed 30-hour program that has brought delight and joy to kids across the globe!
Learn what works and why, learn a sequence that you can teach repeatedly, and discover how to vary it easily.
Incorporating simple breathing techniques and songs into our practice, we show you what a well-balanced kids yoga movement class is, and after we've studied the theory, we put it all into practice at the end, with a free GroovyKids® Yoga demo class!
You will gain enough knowledge and insight into your strengths and thought patterns, and will come away ready to teach kids yoga anywhere. The focus is in equipping a teacher to make a curriculum of classes so they can create a complete year in a school or studio...and to understand deeper why yoga is not for Indian people in the Himalayas or super fit girls on instagram, but for every kid in the world who wants to do it.The Universal appeal of movement.
The greater understanding of the individual elements, so we can put them all together and create a better future for kids everywhere.
Come and find out what over 1,400 teachers worldwide have found out, and learn from a global leader in the field, with over 150 trainings taught.
No previous experience needed, we have trained teachers successfully with zero experience all over the world.
Based on popular demand, this training returns to Bahrain for the second time! We present to you the highly acclaimed 30-hour program that has brought delight and joy to kids across the globe!
Learn what works and why, learn a sequence that you can teach repeatedly, and discover how to vary it easily.
Incorporating simple breathing techniques and songs into our practice, we show you what a well-balanced kids yoga movement class is, and after we've studied the theory, we put it all into practice at the end, with a free GroovyKids® Yoga demo class!
You will gain enough knowledge and insight into your strengths and thought patterns, and will come away ready to teach kids yoga anywhere. The focus is in equipping a teacher to make a curriculum of classes so they can create a complete year in a school or studio...and to understand deeper why yoga is not for Indian people in the Himalayas or super fit girls on instagram, but for every kid in the world who wants to do it.The Universal appeal of movement.
The greater understanding of the individual elements, so we can put them all together and create a better future for kids everywhere.
Come and find out what over 1,400 teachers worldwide have found out, and learn from a global leader in the field, with over 150 trainings taught.
No previous experience needed, we have trained teachers successfully with zero experience all over the world.
About GroovyKids® Yoga
Founded in 2004 by Greville Henwood, GroovyKids® Yoga has travelled across the globe offering 10, 15 and 20-hour Teacher Training programs more than 130 times since 2006.
With over 1,200 teachers worldwide, many of whom are now teaching licensed GroovyKids® Yoga classes on four continents, in kindergartens and yoga studios, middle school playgrounds and private homes, the program brings delight to kids globally.
After studying Child Development in College and completing numerous training courses, Greville designed the GroovyKids® Yoga Teacher Training around the interaction between student and teacher, an approach that has proved successful and joyful for both.
Teaching adults and kids since 1997, Greville is a former Senior Teacher Trainer at Yoga Works, with his teachers and mentors Maty Ezraty, Lisa Walford and Annie Carpenter as his main influences. He also completed a six-month apprenticeship with Maty and Annie in 2003.
More details on www.groovykidsyoga.com
Founded in 2004 by Greville Henwood, GroovyKids® Yoga has travelled across the globe offering 10, 15 and 20-hour Teacher Training programs more than 130 times since 2006.
With over 1,200 teachers worldwide, many of whom are now teaching licensed GroovyKids® Yoga classes on four continents, in kindergartens and yoga studios, middle school playgrounds and private homes, the program brings delight to kids globally.
After studying Child Development in College and completing numerous training courses, Greville designed the GroovyKids® Yoga Teacher Training around the interaction between student and teacher, an approach that has proved successful and joyful for both.
Teaching adults and kids since 1997, Greville is a former Senior Teacher Trainer at Yoga Works, with his teachers and mentors Maty Ezraty, Lisa Walford and Annie Carpenter as his main influences. He also completed a six-month apprenticeship with Maty and Annie in 2003.
More details on www.groovykidsyoga.com
What you will be learning
Module 1
9-6pm both days, 2 hours credit given for homework
DAY 1
What is GroovyKids® Yoga?, What is Yoga?
History of GroovyKids® Yoga
Key #1 of the 7 Keys to a Successful Kids Yoga class
DAY 2
Yoga Practice (adults) including breath techniques
Introductions and Dolphin game
Module 2 - GroovyKids® Yoga Advanced TT9-6pm both days
2 hours credit given for homework completion
Day 1
DAY 2
9-6pm both days, 2 hours credit given for homework
DAY 1
What is GroovyKids® Yoga?, What is Yoga?
History of GroovyKids® Yoga
Key #1 of the 7 Keys to a Successful Kids Yoga class
- Practice GroovyKids® Yoga sequence 1 and adjustments
- What is safe for kids, what is not?
- Differences between ages
- What is failure, what is success?
- Observation and discussion
- Watch together a live kids yoga class, The GroovyKids® Yoga Show
- What to watch for in a kids class, differences between ages
- Breakdown, how and why
DAY 2
Yoga Practice (adults) including breath techniques
Introductions and Dolphin game
- Keys #2 and #3 of the 7 Keys to a Successful Kids Yoga class
- The science behind #movetolearntogrow
- Giving your gifts. What are they? Material vs Immaterial gifts. Discussion and exploration.
- The ways we learn
- How do you give your gifts?
- Keys #4-7 to a successful kids yoga class.
- Who are we really, underneath the words, who are we in action?
- GroovyKids® Yoga class led by Greville
- Certification presentation
Module 2 - GroovyKids® Yoga Advanced TT9-6pm both days
2 hours credit given for homework completion
Day 1
- Practice sequence number 2 including breath techniques
- Review of the 7 Keys and spotlight on the class we taught weekend 1
- Lecture; Yoga as art, science and philosophy
- Breathing techniques, practice and review
- Categorizing poses, building a sequence.
- Building a curriculum of 4-6 classes with different themes, class activity
- Partner Yoga in pairs
- Practice Teaching in groups, feedback
- Giving and receiving as one, the importance and application
DAY 2
- Adult practice including breath techniques
- Modern physical education standards, the universality of yoga movement
- How to think like a child but be an adult (activity)
- Sharing the sequences the students have done for homework and choose a sequence for todays lesson.
- Learn the songs and yoga games for kids
- Improving spontaneous communication with kids
- Partner Yoga for the entire class
- Review of TT and Class prep
- Family GroovyKids® Yoga class taught by everyone
- How did it go?
- Presentation of certificates!
The Details
Date: September 27-28 and October 4-5 2019
Time: 9am to 5pm
Price:
Module 1 BD180
Module 2 (open only to students who completed module 1) BD180
Module 1 & 2 BD340
Old Student prices
Module 1 & 2 BD170
Module 2 BD160
To Book: Call 17591565 or email [email protected]
Registration closes 28 Aug 2019
Date: September 27-28 and October 4-5 2019
Time: 9am to 5pm
Price:
Module 1 BD180
Module 2 (open only to students who completed module 1) BD180
Module 1 & 2 BD340
Old Student prices
Module 1 & 2 BD170
Module 2 BD160
To Book: Call 17591565 or email [email protected]
Registration closes 28 Aug 2019