What can I expect from YAY’s Online Children’s Yoga Teacher Training?

1. Your learning will be 90% asynchronous.
   You will have 24/7 access to our virtual training hub. You can train whenever, wherever, and however it works for you.
   Virtual resources (85.5 hours of the program) include:
   - Recorded lectures
   - Original podcasts (recorded with industry experts exclusively for trainees in YAY’s 95-Hour CYTT)
   - Readings from our original, fully illustrated 300+ page manual
   - Recorded children’s yoga classes
   

2. You will learn from a diverse team of experts.
   Our training team features the following trainers:

   Jill Carey -- Co-founder and President of YAY, YACEP, E-RYT 200, RCYT, former 2nd grade teacher, mom of 3
   DuShaun Branch Pollard -- Founder, Sage Gawd Collective E-RYT 200, RCYT, community organizer and activist
   Brenda Hershey -- Executive director of Trauma Recovery Yoga Global, RYT-200, RCYT
   Lynell Franklin -- International educator of children and adults who bridges eastern and western philosophies into culturally relevant curriculums and programs; founder and creative director of Rooted U Yoga
   Mia Javanshad -- E-RYT 200, RCYT, RPYT & training in Yoga for Children with Special Needs; Owner of My Yoga Western Springs (family yoga studio), mom of 2
   
   Our podcasts feature experts in each niche of children's yoga, including Donna Freeman, founder of Yoga in My School (lesson planning); Giselle Shardlow, founder of Kids’ Yoga Stories (yoga storytelling); attorney and author Gary Kissiah (law, business & ethics), and many others. One expert -- Yoli Maya Yeh, Yoga & Shiatsu Therapist (AOBTA, VYASA, Yoga for the Special Child), Educator in Comparative Religions and Global Studies (MA Comparative Religious Ethics) -- is central as a voice at the intersection of Indigenous Preservation, Healing Arts and Social Justice.
   

3. You will have 9.5 hours of live training — and unlimited access to more, if that’s your preference.
   We offer at least 6 hours of live training per month at various dates and times so that you can choose what works for your schedule. Topics are ever-evolving and always responsive to trainee requests. Current offerings include:
   - Posture clinics
   - Lesson planning workshops
   - Yoga for specific populations (often broken up by age groups and/or special needs)
   - Practical Ayurveda for kids
   - Kids’ yoga in a classroom setting
   - Business planning clinics
   If you prefer more engagement in the form of live workshops, phone calls, and/or consultations with lead trainers, just say the word. You can attend as many live hours as you want in the year you enroll — even after you finish your required coursework.
   

4. Your education will be socially progressive.
   We are inclusive of all people and all identities — in our training team, in our own children’s yoga classrooms, and in our discussions of serving kids and their grownups. Our training recognizes a diversity of genders and takes an intersectional feminist lens (in less jargony terms: we recognize that unfairness cuts across many identities and ALL people deserve a fair shot). We directly address issues that plague the yoga industry: cultural appropriation, lack of representation, spiritual bypassing, and misuse of sacred languages and objects (among other issues!) We are dedicated to being resilient, critical thinkers rather than getting it “right.” You won’t be judged or crowded into a set a beliefs as you take this program, but you will be challenged to self-reflect, refresh your thinking about yoga, and bring it back to its origins.
   

5. Your learning will go WAY beyond asana (postures).
   Yoga is an 8-limbed practice and this is an 8-limbed program. We explore yoga’s origins, history, and philosophy PLUS all eight limbs: moral and ethical precepts (yama + niyama), postures (asana), breathwork (pranayama), sensory management (pratyahara), focus/concentration (dharana), meditation (dhyana), and oneness (samadhi). We also have speciality units on developmental stages, yoga for children with special needs, and the law, business, and ethics of children’s yoga. In short, we will equip you to do more than teach kids poses — you can buy a deck of cards if that’s all you want to do (and it’s much less expensive!)

Still have questions about the program? We’d love to answer them. Please reach out to jill@missionpropelle.com for a speedy and personal response.