95 Hour Kids Yoga Teacher Training and Certification

Four weekends, 95 hours and a Yoga Alliance approved certification to teach children’s yoga. 88 of those hours are live with Amy and Sedef, on Zoom or in person in Alpharetta. Each Step can be booked on its own, and each one is a complete training in itself. Start with Step 1 or Step 2. Steps 3 and 4 build on Step 1.

Our 95-hour children’s yoga training is approved by Yoga Alliance to count toward your RCYT (Registered Children’s Yoga Teacher) designation, and includes trauma-sensitive design, classroom integration, and inclusive strategies for all learners. We also partner with Courses4Teachers / University of the Pacific so you can receive graduate level semester credit after completing your training. We welcome anyone with an interest in teaching children and do not require any yoga or teaching prerequisites.

What does the 95 hour certification cost?

Each Step is $599 at the early bird price, $649 after. The full 95 hour certification, all four Steps together, is $2,096. Every Step includes physical materials posted to you, listed below at our own shop prices.

Training and datesStart here?Materials includedPrice
Step 1
Get Grounded in Children’s Yoga
September 25 to 27		Yes$122
Tote, 84-pose deck, mini cards, 11×11 poster, Superheroes curriculum, red posters and your red bandana, plus the printed manual		$599 early bird
$649 after
Step 2
Ages 3 to 6, Teens and Neurodiverse Learners
October 16 to 18		Yes$53
Breathing feather, 5 Elements flows, orange and yellow posters and two bandanas, plus the printed manual		$599 early bird
$649 after
Step 3
Refine Your Teaching, Creativity and Family Yoga
November 13 to 15		Step 1 first$79
5 Elements curriculum and student workbook, green and blue posters and two bandanas, plus the printed manual		$599 early bird
$649 after
Step 4
Trauma-Informed, Schools, Anatomy, 1-1 and Business
December 4 to 6		Step 1 first$85
Focus in Time kit, Grounded in Color curriculum, 14×14 poster, indigo and purple posters and two bandanas, plus the printed manual		$599 early bird
$649 after
All four together
The full 95 hour certification
September to December		Yes$339
Everything above, all seven chakra bandanas, plus four printed training manuals that are not for sale at any price		$2,096 early bird
$2,296 after

Booking all four together is $300 less than booking them one at a time, and it holds your place in every Step.

Materials values are our own shop prices. Everything listed is physical and posted to you, not a download. The four printed training manuals are not for sale, at any price, so no figure is attached to them.

88 of your 95 hours are live. Not pre-recorded video. Eighty-eight hours in the room with Amy and Sedef across the four weekends, on Zoom or in person in Alpharetta. The remaining 7 hours are your own work: creating accessible, engaging lesson plans, practice teaching classes and studying the course material. Yoga Alliance counts all 95.

Choose your Step

2026 Upcoming Trainings

Four weekends, September to December 2026. Each one runs Friday 6:00 pm to Sunday 6:30 pm, on Zoom or in person in Alpharetta.

All of our training steps count as 22 CEU hours as long as you are not already counting them as hours to earn your 95 hour RCYT.

Yoga Alliance RCYS seal, Registered Children’s Yoga School.
Yoga Alliance YACEP seal, Continuing Education Provider.
American Yoga Council CYT Level 3 badge held by Amy Haysman.
Six adults sit on the floor around yoga mats and open children's books during an in-person Grounded Kids yoga teacher training in Alpharetta, Georgia.

Click on each training for all the details.

A walk through the four steps, showing all the materials you receive.

Why choose Grounded Kids?

  • Upholding the integrity of yoga while making it accessible, desirable and beneficial to children makes this kids yoga teacher training training program radically distinct.
  • Our methodology integrates decades of child-development experience, extensive yoga knowledge, and authentic energetic awareness, treating physical, emotional, and mental health as inseparable parts of a child’s whole self.
  • Our program reflects multiple yoga lineages and diverse perspectives, including wisdom from our dedicated students of all ages.
  • Our dynamic 4-step training model, 7-day immersion, and 10-day intensive all fulfill the required 95 hours of study for RCYT designation with Yoga Alliance.
  • Our yoga school offers a step by step approach in your education toward certification or CEUs for licensure renewal.
  • We offer Customized Trainings for groups such as Behavioral Health Clinics, Therapists, K-12 Schools & more.
  • Amy, Sedef, and our cluster of dynamic teacher trainers will masterfully teach and support you on your 95-hour Grounded Kids Yoga Certification & Quest for Elevation.

If you are an RYT or RCYT seeking top notch continuing education, you’ve come to the right place.

We welcome both adult yoga teachers interested in adding children’s yoga to their repertoire and those who already teach kids’ yoga ready to expand their knowledge with our our unique approach.

Continuing Education Course Menu

We are in the process of expanding our online offerings for trainings and workshops. Please join our mailing list to stay up to date!

Read below for the requirements set forth by Yoga Alliance. As of July 2023, Yoga Alliance no longer differentiates between contact and non-contact hours. Every three years starting from your initial date of registration, each RYT and E-RYT must complete and log a minimum of:

  1. 45 hours teaching yoga, and
  2. 30 hours of yoga related training that is directly related to one of our Educational Categories.
  3. Teaching or training hours prior to registration do not count as Continuing Education. If you earn more than the required hours in a three-year period, the extra hours may not rollover into the next three-year period. Continuing Education hours should be spent learning something new, through research, study or experiential learning, rather than synthesizing or processing prior knowledge.

Who teaches this?

Every one of the 88 live hours is taught by Amy or Sedef. Both are Yoga Alliance E-RYT 500 and RCYT, and both are lead trainers. They have taught hundreds of workshops and trainings and graduated hundreds of certified Grounded Kids teachers.

Amy Haysman, M.Ed., E-RYT 500, RCYT, Lead Trainer. In children's yoga since 2001. Co-wrote YogaKids' Tools for Schools in 2007 and is one of only two teachers shown throughout its videos. Spent seven years at YogaKids as lead trainer, mentor coordinator, program director and curriculum writer. Before that, head of Language Arts in a Georgia public middle school. Master of Education, University of Georgia. Trauma-informed trained. Presenter at the National Kids Yoga Conference in 2016 and 2017.

Sedef Dion, E-RYT 500, RCYT, Lead Trainer. Co-created Step 2 and teaches it. Teaching yoga since 1999 and children since 2005. Over ten years teaching students with special needs, and currently teaches yoga at All Kids First and ABA of Georgia autism centers alongside personalised classes at her own studio. Creator of Pre-Grounded. Kundalini certified under Mukta Kaur Khalsa, and a member of Yoga Alliance and IKYTA.

What is included?

The weekends are the training. This is everything that comes with them.

  • 88 live hours taught by Amy and Sedef, on Zoom or in person in Alpharetta. Every Step runs both ways.
  • Every weekend recorded. You keep lifetime access to the videos on Vimeo, so you can go back to any session whenever you want.
  • Physical materials posted to you, not downloads. See the table above.
  • Mentorship afterwards, by email, text or phone.
  • A listing in our teacher directory. After Step 1 you are listed as a Grounded Teacher. After you complete the certification your listing changes to Certified. Anyone can search the directory by location. There is no fee, ever.
  • The teachers page, with free downloads and resources. No fee.
  • Room and board if you want it. Out of town trainees can stay for some or all of the Steps, for an additional charge.

What can one Step count toward?

One weekend can count as any one of these, depending on what you need. You cannot count the same hours twice.

  • Your 95 hour certification. Each Step is part of the full RCYT path.
  • Yoga Alliance continuing education, 22 CEU hours per Step, if you are not already counting those hours toward the 95.
  • A 300 hour teacher training. Yoga Alliance has already agreed our training counts as an elective toward a 300 hour teacher training. The 300 hour school just has to say yes.

What is RCYT?

RCYT stands for Registered Children's Yoga Teacher. It is the Yoga Alliance credential an individual teacher holds, and it is different from RCYS, Registered Children's Yoga School, which is the credential a school holds. Grounded Kids is a Registered Children's Yoga School, so the hours you earn here count toward your RCYT.

Yoga Alliance asks for three things before you can register:

  • A 200 hour teacher training with an RYS 200
  • A 95 hour children's yoga training with a Registered Children's Yoga School
  • At least 30 hours of teaching children's yoga, done after you finish that 95 hour training

You do not need the 200 hour first to take this training. Yoga Alliance's standard says teachers may complete the two programs in any order, and that you cannot register as an RCYT until the RYT is complete. So you can start here and finish the 200 hour later, or the other way round.

Yoga Alliance sets what the 95 hours must cover, and at least 37 of those hours must be with a lead trainer. At Grounded Kids, 88 of the 95 are.

Training dates, full details and registration

Every weekend runs Friday 6:00 pm to Sunday 6:30 pm, on Zoom or in person in Alpharetta. Choose a Step below to see the full outline for that weekend, what is included and how to book your place.

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