General InfoEarly Years Yoga Teacher Training
- Integrated Yoga for Children from
Birth to age 4 & their families
in conjunction with
Sitaram Partnership
Uma Dinsmore-Tuli
Samye Dzong Tibetan Buddhist Centre
33 Manor Place,
London, SE17 3BD
(off the Elephant and Castle end of Walworth Road).
33 Manor Place,
London, SE17 3BD
(off the Elephant and Castle end of Walworth Road).
Fri 16, Sat 17 & Sun 18 May, 2008
Sat 28 & Sun 29 June, 2008
Sun 19 Oct, 2008
Sat 28 & Sun 29 June, 2008
Sun 19 Oct, 2008
10.00am - 5.00pm each day
Cost: £525 including detailed course materials
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Open to all yoga teachers and trainee teachers from any background.
Students on The Life Centre Yoga Teacher Training Programme who attend all six days may count this as one of their approved intensives. However, as the course requires some teaching experience, it may not be taken either as a first intensive or within six months of starting on The Life Centre Teacher Training Programme.
This pioneering course for yoga teachers and trainee teachers is the UK’s first fully comprehensive training for yoga teachers to teach family yoga classes from birth to pre-school. The course covers the period from birth to age 4 and will fully integrate mother and baby yoga (from birth to walking) and yoga for toddlers and their parents together, including:
- group dynamics, use of language, yoga games and songs and pair work;
- asana, pranayama, mudra, meditation and deep relaxation for each developmental stage during the early years together with sample class plans;
- the conscious and positive use of yoga to build physical and emotional contact between parents, babies and young children and the use of yoga to promote joy in family life.
The training is highly practical, providing a sound foundation in the understanding of ethics, respect, kindness and energetic harmony between adults and children.
The course includes short written assignments and case studies. To facilitate effective learning and assimilation of the wealth of material covered, the training will be spread over 5 months, with the basics being taught in the initial 3 day session with time then being given for students to observe classes, complete assignments and to put the principles into practice.
Uma Dinsmore-Tuli was first introduced to yoga at the age of four, and has been teaching yoga and meditation since 1986. Together with her husband, Nirlipta, she founded Sitaram Partnership in 1998 to provide an authentic experience of appropriate yoga practice for the whole family - from unborn children, to their parents, siblings and grandparents. Uma has a PhD in Communications from London University, a diploma in Yoga Therapy from the Yoga Biomedical Trust and is a recognised teacher of the British Wheel of Yoga. She also teaches the British Wheel of Yoga Module in Pregnancy Yoga, and designed the British Wheel Module in Postnatal Yoga and is a training tutor for the Yoga Biomedical Trust, and the Birthlight Trust for whom she trains and assesses perinatal yoga teachers and baby yoga teachers on courses and apprenticeships. Uma has produced several pregnancy and family yoga CDs and, most recently, the widely acclaimed book Mother's Breath, a definitive guide to yoga breathing, sound and awareness practices during pregnancy, birth and postnatal recovery.
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