Are you a teacher or a trainer? Do you teach gymnastics, dance or movement to students? Do you deal with children and you love them? With the Fun Kids Yoga training program, you will learn how to become even better at handling children at such sensitive ages, expand your knowledge and share it with your young students.
Ariadni Oikonomidi will share with you the method of teaching yoga for children, filling them with positive stimuli. Yoga for children is both a game and exercise, but also a life lesson: from the basics, such as how to breathe properly and gain flexibility, as well as being a friend with your body, up to learning how to handle anger, anxiety and difficult situations. Their everyday life is constantly changing and becoming more and more demanding compared with ours when we were children - so become well equipped to help them cope with the challenges!
The course will cover the following topics:
- History of yoga
- The benefits of yoga for children
- Child, psychology and mental health
- Pedagogy and its basic principles
- Anatomy
- Kinesiology
- Asanas
- Games
Students have the opportunity to attend, as a complementary educational unit, the Pro Level 1 module of the Core Fitness Knowledge Course, in order to enhance their theoretical background:
- Anatomy - Kinesiology I
- Physiology of Exercise I
- Nutrition Exercise and Health I