Move and Mind – Teach Yoga to Children
Move and Mind is an inspirational training course designed to help adults confidently teach yoga to children.
Whether you work with children professionally or care for them at home, this course gives you joyful, meaningful tools you can use immediately.
Who is Move and Mind for?
Move and Mind is suitable for anyone supporting children’s physical and emotional wellbeing, including:
- Primary school teachers
- Teaching assistants
- Early years practitioners
- Parents and carers
- Yoga teachers expanding into children’s work
- Therapists and wellbeing practitioners
- Anyone passionate about supporting children’s wellbeing through movement, breathing and relaxation
What you will learn
- How movement, breath, and rest support children’s emotional regulation and resilience
- How to structure safe, engaging, and age-appropriate children’s yoga sessions
- How to confidently lead groups of children using clear, simple teaching frameworks
- How to use storytelling, games, and imagination to make wellbeing accessible and fun
- How to manage group energy, calming busy groups and lifting low energy when needed
- How to introduce breathing and relaxation practices in ways children naturally engage with
- How to create a calm, inclusive environment where children feel safe to participate
- How to adapt sessions for different ages, abilities, and settings
- How to build confidence as a children’s yoga or wellbeing facilitator
What you receive with Move and Mind
When you book a Move and Mind course, you receive a complete wellbeing toolkit designed to support your learning, and your teaching, long after the training ends
Included in every booking
- A comprehensive learning experience
- Printable illustrated cards representing poses, activities and games, (PDF format)
- Lifetime access to resources
- Joyful, effective activities ready to use with children
- You become a Move and Mind practitioner
Illustrated Move and Mind cards
You will receive a unique set of illustrated set of 60 cards, designed by Luke Durkie Illustrator, in the style used throughout this website. The cards include a wide variety of yoga poses, and a selection of illustrations representing the games and activities taught throughout the training.
A printable PDF version of the cards is included within the course fee.
Professionally printed versions, produced in the style of extra-large playing cards, are also available through occasional small print runs. You can contact us to let us know you’d like to be counted into the next print run.
You can also own the cards without attending a course.
Why Move and Mind is a great choice
Because it is a child centred approach to wellbeing. Move and Mind goes beyond traditional yoga training. This course is:
- Trauma aware
- Developmentally appropriate
- Rooted in play and creativity
- Accessible for non-yoga specialists
- Designed for real educational and care settings
You will gain confidence, not just information and you’ll be ready to teach yoga to children in your life, whether that professionally or at home.
Choose how you want to learn
Independent Learning
Professional online training course. Learn anytime.
£300
Why learn independently?
- The same exciting, engaging lessons
- Start immediately
- Move through the learning experience in your own time
Interested but cost is a barrier?
Supported Learning
3 days of playful and fascinating live online training. Learn remotely with others.
£525
Why live online?
- No need to travel
- No need for accommodation
- Learn with other people who care about kids
- Have fun
Immersive Learning
3 days of joyful guided classroom/studio learning. Learn in person with others.
£675
The perks:
- Meet a bunch of likeminded learners
- Have lots of fun
- Enjoy an adventure in the Peak District, (spoiler alert, it’s stunningly beautiful)
Team Training for your staff
Book Move and Mind for your group. Get in touch with Jane to discuss logistics and a fair price for your team.
Ideal for:
- Schools
- Therapy teams
- Charities
- Nurseries
- Family support organisations
Meet your trainer
Jane is an experienced yoga teacher trainer with over 20 years of teaching practice and more than 15 years dedicated to training yoga teachers across adult, children’s, pregnancy, postnatal and fertility yoga.
As lead trainer for the Teaching Yoga to Children course, Jane brings a creative and developmentally informed approach to children’s yoga. She specialises in helping trainees understand how yoga can support regulation, confidence, emotional wellbeing and connection, while ensuring sessions remain playful, inclusive and responsive to children’s individual needs.
Jane is known for creating fun and interesting learning environments where trainees feel excited to share the skills they learn. Combining clear structure with reflection and creativity, she helps teachers build confidence, adapt practices safely and develop authentic, sustainable ways of working with children.
Her training is grounded in real teaching experience, thoughtful mentorship and a belief that confident teachers create meaningful experiences for children.
You can also explore the valuable work being done by Place2Be to support children’s mental health and wellbeing.
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Interested but need support to pay
We know passionate people aren’t always in the same financial position.
Payment plans are always available and a small number of support discounts may be available. Just ask…