How to Become a Children’s Yoga Teacher in the UK (2026 Guide)

Becoming a children’s yoga teacher in the UK is one of the fastest-growing opportunities in wellness, education, and flexible careers. Whether you’re a yoga teacher, parent, teaching assistant, or career changer, this guide walks you through exactly how to get started.

What the Job Actually Looks Like

Before anything else, it’s important to understand this:

Teaching children’s yoga is not just “doing yoga with kids”.

Some children will enjoy the same style as adults do, but most will prefer ‘children’s yoga style’. We’re talking adventure stories, (especially ages 2 to 7) and games. Luckily, although the benefits of yoga are serious, it’s easy to make the experience playful, and that’s how to teach most kids.

Children’s classes differ from adult ones because of a few more things too:

• managing energy levels
• regulating emotions
• behaviour (adults tend to know the etiquette of a yoga class, kids not so much!)
• noise levels

A quiet, calm yoga class? Rare.

A lively, structured, slightly chaotic session that still delivers real benefits? Much more accurate.

Step 1: Decide Who You Want to Work With

You can teach yoga in a wide variety of settings.

In the UK, your opportunities will usually fall into:

• Nurseries (ages 2–4)
• Primary schools (ages 4–11)
• After-school clubs, (or before school. Schools appreciate help with their wraparound care)
• Private classes (village hall style. Sometimes just kids, sometimes with parents/carers too – family yoga)
• SEN settings
• Festivals, fetes, children’s parties

Step 2: Do You Need a Qualification?

Legally? No.

Practically? Yes!

Qualifications in Children’s Yoga Teaching are full to the brim of useable ideas for making children’s classes easy to teach with age appropriate yoga practices and behaviour management skills. The usefulness of a proper training course, for this career choice, is MASSIVE.

A good training course gives you the skiils to structure classes, fill them with fun practices, manage disruption, regulate children’s emotions, feel confident to actually lead a group, and to grow your chidren’s yoga teaching business.

Step 3: Choose the Right Type of Training

This is where things have changed a lot in the UK and around the world.

A few years ago, most training was in-person. Now, the majority of new teachers are qualifying through online, self-paced courses.

Why?

Because they’re:

• Flexible (especially if you’re a parent or working)
• Faster to complete
• More affordable
• Immediately applicable

The key is choosing a course that focuses on teaching, not just theory.

You can definitely still do live courses. If that’s your prefered method, there are plenty of in-person and online, live, guided, immersive courses. These days you’ve got options!

Step 4: Get Insured (Don’t Skip This)

Before you start teaching, get yourself insured. Public liability insurance is expected by most organisations, from schools to festivals.

Their are many options for insurance, and plenty that are specifically for yoga teaching. They don’t need to cost too much, shop around.

Most insurance companies will want you to show that you have the appropriate training in children’s yoga. This is another reason why doing that qualification matters.

Step 5: Start Before You Feel Ready

Children’s yoga is PLAY. Holding back, because you want perfection, limits you. It’s fine to forget a bit of the story or do the games in a different order, or even ask the kids what animal they think is around the corner and what they think it would look like.

The teachers who succeed are the ones who have a go! Start with just a few children, or just a couple of yoga games until you feel ready for bigger sessions, but do start. Otherwise, the kids are missing out on the transformational practice of yoga and the joy of you facilitating play.

Step 6: Build Momentum

Once you’ve got started, you’ll develop your teaching style: You will:

• Understand how the children you work with respond to you
• Get actual feedback from children, (and parents/teachers)
• Feel more confident and in control of sessions
• Improve your skills and grow as a teacher

This is where many people realise, “I LOVE doing this!” or “I could turn this into something bigger”.

Just do it!

Becoming a children’s yoga teacher in the UK isn’t complicated, but it does require action.

The biggest difference between people who succeed and people who don’t?

Not talent. Not experience.

They just start.

If you’re keen and you want to join successful graduates of the course Move and Mind – Teaching Yoga to Children, you’ll find all the learning options, from on-demand to in-person right here.