Kids Yoga Teacher Training

Elevate Your Yoga Studio with Grounded Kids Yoga

At Grounded Kids Yoga, we partner with studios who want more than just movement classes for kids. Our programs infuse yoga with emotional fluency, playful engagement, and trauma-informed practices that meet children exactly where they are, while inspiring them to grow. If you’re looking to expand your studio’s reach, deepen community engagement, and offer meaningful programming that truly works, you’re in the right place.

What Makes Grounded Kids Yoga Studio-Ready?

Grounded Kids Yoga is designed to integrate seamlessly into your existing schedule and elevate your studio’s offerings. Whether you serve toddlers, tweens, or teens, we provide age-appropriate tools that promote strength, confidence, and calm.

Our curriculum includes:

  • 84 child-centered yoga poses that build balance, flexibility, and focus
  • Thematic sequences and signature flows that reinforce emotional regulation
  • Breathing practices, mudras, mantras, and meditation adapted for young learners
  • Games, songs, visualizations, and partner work that make learning joyful and accessible

Each class is rooted in structure and supported by materials that ensure every child feels seen, safe, and valued.

Explore our FAQ on Yoga for Different Ages and Developmental Stages

Teach Skills That Stick: Strength, Focus, and Resilience

Our program is grounded in social-emotional learning. Children learn not only how to stretch and move, but how to regulate, focus, and express themselves in healthy ways. Over time, they build the emotional vocabulary and inner resources they need to thrive in school, relationships, and life.

Many of our partner studios use:

Build Connection Through Partner Poses and Community Rituals

One of our signature practices, the Together We Stand sequence, emphasizes teamwork. Children partner up for poses, learning to support one another with strength, focus, and care. This fosters a sense of belonging and relationship that carries off the mat and into their daily lives.

Each class follows a consistent rhythm that blends physical movement with emotional insight. Over time, children internalize these practices and begin using them independently to reset, reconnect, or re-energize.

Explore our FAQ on Breathing and Mindfulness Practices for Kids

High Expectations, Non-Competitive Atmosphere

Children want to be challenged and seen. We set high expectations in every class, but we also create a culture where effort is celebrated, not comparison. Kids are encouraged to grow at their own pace while supporting their peers.

We work hard. We laugh often. And we design every experience to feel purposeful and playful.

Explore our FAQ on Yoga and SEL to learn more about how social emotional learning is so important to healthy child development.

Ready to Grow? Let’s Build Something Together

We can send a Certified Grounded Kids Yoga teacher directly to your location. That means your students get the full experience, and your team gets to learn by observing the method in action. Once the excitement builds, we’ll help you host a training and certify your in-house teachers to lead classes, camps, or family events like:

Why It Works

Grounded Kids Yoga helps children approach challenges with flexibility, not just in the body, but in the mind. Through movement, stillness, and emotional literacy, they build the foundation for lifelong resilience. And your studio becomes a place where children feel grounded and elevated.

Here Is a sample agreement to host a training. Take a look and let’s connect soon. We schedule trainings 12 to 4 months prior to the event.

More to Explore

Create Your Own Deck of Cards

Create Your Own Deck of Cards

“Whatever follows I AM will find you.” This sentiment can be expressed in so many ways. “Like attracts like,” “Energy follows thought.” However we choose to express it, the belief that our thoughts influence how we feel, act and interact in the world is undeniable. This idea is a rich theme and one I’ve explored deeply in Grounded classes. The following activity can serve as an introduction, a culminating project, or an ongoing art activity throughout a class series. These beautifully telling photos are from a special 3 hour Grounded gathering with some of my long time students and a few brand new ones.  

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Yes To Higher Aim…No To Lame

Say Yes to Brightness,
To Certainty, To Health
Say no to dullness,
To doubt, to filth.

Say Yes to Careful,
To Enthusiasm, to Aim
Say no to Careless,
To Backsliding, to Lame.

Say yes to activity,
To Attention, To humility.
Say no to Heedless,
Inertia, Instability.

How to say NO
To such 9 Disturbances?
Create a “no” prop
To play interference.

A block will work wonders
To impede interruptions.
Place between your hands
To help with deductions.

Press your hands in
To fire your inner shoulders.
Breathe your arms up
And become a beholder.

Keep pressing in
To activate what’s dull.
Reach the block up high
As well as your skull.

Hold a block in one hand
Lift up your opposite knee
Tilt to block side
Finding freedom is key.

Place the “no” block
Right between your thighs.
I know it is awkward
May your enthusiasm rise!

Press your thighs back
Keep your shins fixed.
Fold Forward, touch the floor
Breathe steady while betwixt.

Step back into Downward Dog,
Bend your knees a lot.
Press your block up and back
Notice your train of thought!

Shift forward into plank
Lower down flat like a pancake.
Keep shins pressing down
Lift thighs up with a mandate.

Stretch your belly and heart forward,
Hips back toward your toes
Open your shoulders
Like a polyphonic prose.

Press back to Down Dog
Come down to table.
Remove your block
Keep hands and shins stable.

Prepare to find freedom
With boundaries no less.
In this grounded pose
We call “No Table Yes”.

As you stretch right leg back
Exhale Yes to Higher Aim.
As you bring knee to forehead
Inhale No to Lame.

Your spine arches and curves
As you continue 5 times
Try it fast, Try it slow
Switch sides
Cause it’s prime.

Sit is easy pose
Tune into your frame.
Each inhale in
Think Yes to high aim.

Each exhale out
Think No to Lame
May this help you
Up your game.

Children and adults practicing yoga together in a studio, part of Grounded Kids Yoga’s featured program in Points North Magazine.

The Power of a Pose: How Grounded Kids Yoga Helps Children Build Strength, Calm, and Confidence

In this feature from Points North Magazine, Amy Haysman of Grounded Kids Yoga shares how playful, purposeful yoga classes help children develop strength, focus, and confidence. Learn how programs like Quest for Elevation empower kids to regulate emotions, build resilience, and share their inner light.