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Mindfulness and Breathwork in Kids Yoga: Why Presence and Pranayama Are the Heart of Children's Practice

"To become mindful is to become free, to have the capacity to step out of the rat race, the speech, the complexity, and be who we truly are."

— Jack Kornfield

 If there is one gift that yoga for children offers above all others — more enduring than any pose, more portable than any prop — it is the capacity to be present. To pause. To notice. To breathe.

This is the heart of mindfulness practice. And in a children's yoga class, it is also the most immediately useful skill a child can take home — into the classroom, the argument with a sibling, the moment before the test when everything feels like too much.

Mindfulness and breathwork are not add-ons to a kids yoga class. They are the foundation. And learning to teach them well — in ways that are genuinely accessible, age-appropriate, and engaging for children — is one of the most valuable skills developed in PYI's Kids and Inclusive Yoga Teacher Training.

What Mindfulness Actually Means — and Why Children Need It Now

Mindfulness, at its simplest, is present-moment awareness. According to the Oxford Language dictionary, it is "the quality or state of being conscious or aware of something" — or more specifically, "a mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations."

Jon Kabat-Zinn, who brought mindfulness-based practice into mainstream medicine and psychology, defines it as awareness that arises through "paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally" — in the service of self-understanding and wisdom.

For children, the significance of this could not be more practical. A child who is preoccupied with yesterday's conflict at school, or anxious about tomorrow's test, is not present — and a child who is not present cannot learn, connect, or regulate. Mindfulness practice gives children a way back to now. And when the path back to now runs through the breath, the body, and the senses, it becomes something children can access anywhere, at any age, without any equipment at all.

🌱 Mindfulness Is Not Stillness
One of the most important things a kids yoga teacher learns early is that mindfulness for children does not look the same as mindfulness for adults. Asking a seven-year-old to sit still and focus on the breath for ten minutes is not mindfulness practice — it is a setup for frustration. Mindfulness for children is active, sensory, playful, and embodied. It happens in movement, in story, in the five senses, and in the breath. PYI’s training teaches you to meet children exactly where they are.

Teaching Mindfulness Through the Five Senses

One of the most effective and developmentally appropriate approaches to mindfulness with children is grounding practice through the senses. Each sense becomes a doorway into the present moment — a concrete, accessible, age-appropriate entry point into awareness that doesn't require any prior meditation experience or capacity for abstract thought.

Mindful Listening

Sound is one of the most reliable anchors for present-moment awareness in children. Singing bowls, nature sounds, and simple listening games like Yogi Says create immediate, shared attention without asking children to go inward before they are ready. The question "what do you hear right now?" is one of the simplest and most effective mindfulness invitations available to a kids yoga teacher.

Mindful Seeing

Nature walks and simple observation games — "what's the same, what's different?" — invite children into present-moment visual awareness without requiring them to label or analyze what they notice. Looking, really looking, is itself a mindfulness practice when it is done with curiosity and without judgment.

Mindful Touch

Self-massage, tapping, clapping, and drumming bring awareness into the body through tactile sensation — particularly valuable for kinesthetic learners and children who regulate through movement and physical input. Mindful touch activities also support proprioceptive development, helping children build a more conscious relationship to their own bodies.

Mindful Smell

Essential oils and time in nature engage the olfactory sense in ways that are directly connected to emotional memory and nervous system regulation. Smell is the only sense that bypasses the thalamus and connects directly to the limbic system — meaning a single familiar scent can shift a child's emotional state faster than almost any other input.

Mindful Taste

Inviting children to eat or drink something slowly — savoring each sip of warm tea or each bite of a simple snack — turns a routine moment into a full sensory mindfulness practice. The instruction is simple: take your time, notice the temperature, notice the flavor, notice what changes. Children are often surprised by how much there is to discover in something they do every day without thinking.

Pranayama in Kids Yoga: The Breath as the Most Accessible Tool

Breathwork — or pranayama — is often described as the bridge between the body and the mind. For children, it is also the most immediately practical tool in the entire yoga toolkit. A child who learns to use their breath has something they can take into any moment of their life: the argument, the test, the sleepless night, the overwhelming classroom.

The key to teaching pranayama to children is making it embodied, imaginative, and fun. When breath becomes an animal sound, a nature image, or a physical game, it stops being an instruction and becomes an experience — and experienced breath is breath that children actually remember and use.

PYI's Kids and Inclusive Yoga Teacher Training covers a rich and varied pranayama curriculum. Here are a few of the practices that work particularly well with children as an introduction to what is possible:

Bee Breath (Bhramari)

Inhale through the nose, exhale with a soft humming sound — like a gentle buzzing bee. Bee Breath is one of the most physiologically effective techniques in the kids yoga toolkit: the humming activates the vagus nerve, increases nitric oxide production, and shifts the nervous system toward calm with remarkable speed. Children love the sound, which makes it easy to introduce and easy to remember. It is especially effective for anxiety, overwhelm, and the transition from active play into stillness.

Lion's Breath

Inhale deeply, then exhale with a wide-open mouth, extended tongue, and a full-throated ROAR. Lion's Breath is the great tension-releaser of the kids yoga world — it gives children a sanctioned, joyful outlet for the pent-up energy and emotion that can build up over the course of a school day. It also stimulates the throat and face, releasing held tension in the jaw and neck, and it reliably produces laughter, which is itself a parasympathetic reset.

Starfish Breath (Take Five)

Spread one hand wide like a starfish. Use the index finger of the other hand to slowly trace up each finger on the inhale and down each finger on the exhale — five fingers, five breath cycles. Starfish Breath is a grounding technique as much as a breathing technique: the tactile sensation of tracing the fingers anchors attention in the body, making it especially effective for children who are anxious, dysregulated, or struggling to settle. It is also completely silent and portable — children can use it at their school desk, in a waiting room, or anywhere they need a quiet reset.

Candle Breath

Inhale slowly as if smelling a flower, then exhale slowly and steadily as if gently blowing out a single candle — long enough to make the flame flicker but not go out. Candle Breath teaches children the skill of slow, controlled exhalation, which directly activates the parasympathetic nervous system. The image is concrete, immediately understandable to young children, and creates a gentle sense of focus and care in the exhale that translates beautifully into calming the body before rest or sleep.

📌 A Note on Pranayama and Children
There are important considerations and some contraindications to breathwork with children that every kids yoga teacher should understand — including which techniques are appropriate for different age groups, how to monitor for lightheadedness or distress, and when to modify or skip a particular practice. These are covered in depth in PYI’s Kids and Inclusive Yoga Teacher Training. The four techniques above are a starting point — the full curriculum goes much further.

Three Certifications. One Training.

Completing PYI's 95-hour Kids and Inclusive Yoga Teacher Training — which includes mindfulness, pranayama, inclusive environment design, trauma-informed teaching, child development, and much more — earns you three simultaneous credentials:

 

🏅  What You Earn

Yoga Alliance RCYT (Registered Children's Yoga Teacher)  • 50 credit hours toward PYI's IAYT-Accredited Yoga Therapist Certification  • IAYT Continuing Education (APD hours) for Certified Yoga Therapists seeking recertification. Led by Larissa Noto (JD, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, RCYT) and Camelia (Mimi) Felton (RYT-500, C-IAYT, RCYT).

 
→ Ready to Teach Mindfulness and Breath to Children?
PYI’s Kids and Inclusive Yoga Teacher Training gives you a complete toolkit for teaching mindfulness and pranayama to children of all ages and abilities — grounded in neuroscience, developmentally appropriate, and genuinely fun to teach. Earn your Yoga Alliance RCYT, IAYT Continuing Education (APD hours), and 50 credit hours toward PYI’s IAYT-Accredited Yoga Therapist Certification. Available online for students throughout New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and nationwide. Learn more at Prema Yoga Institute.

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How to Create an Inclusive Kids Yoga Environment: Power, Learning Styles, and the Multi-Sensory Classroom

 

Setting up a kids yoga class is about far more than choosing the right poses. Before the first child rolls out their mat, a skilled teacher has already made dozens of decisions — about the language they will use, the power dynamics they will cultivate, the range of learners they will serve, and the sensory environment they will create.

These decisions are not incidental. They are the infrastructure of inclusion — and they determine whether the children who walk through your door feel genuinely welcomed and able to learn, or subtly signaled that this space was not quite designed for them.

This is what truly inclusive kids yoga teaching looks like in practice. And it is the foundation of PYI's Kids and Inclusive Yoga Teacher Training.

🌱 Why Environment Comes First
Children cannot learn in a space where they do not feel safe, seen, and belonging. The physical setup, the language, the power structure, and the sensory experience of a kids yoga class all communicate something to a child’s nervous system before a single instruction is given. Inclusive teaching begins with the environment — and getting that right is both a skill and a practice.

Starting With Language: Small Choices, Big Impact

The way a teacher introduces themselves and addresses their students sets the social and emotional tone of the entire class. In an inclusive kids yoga environment, language is handled with care and intentionality from the very first moment.

Titles and Names

Depending upon the age of your students and your setting, consider leaving formal titles at the door. "Mrs.," "Ms.," and "Miss" create a hierarchical dynamic in the classroom that can feel distancing — particularly for children whose relationship with authority figures carries complicated history. Inviting children to use your first name, or any name you choose to be called, is a small but meaningful signal that this is a space where the usual rules of power are a little different.

Always identify and use a child's preferred name or nickname, and include pronouns where appropriate. This is not a political act — it is a basic act of respect that communicates to every child in the room that who they actually are is more important to you than any assumption you might otherwise make.

Gender-Neutral Language

Avoid framing activities, poses, or challenges in gendered terms — "boys vs. girls," "strong like a man," or "graceful like a ballerina." Gender-neutral language keeps the class accessible to every child, regardless of how they understand or express their own identity, and it avoids reinforcing the kinds of social hierarchies that can make some children feel like insiders and others like guests.

In practice this is simple: "strong like a mountain," "graceful like a tree," "fierce like a tiger." Nature and animals are endlessly useful — and children love them.

Power Dynamics in the Yoga Classroom: Power Over, Power With, Power To

Every classroom has a power structure. The question is not whether power operates in the room — it always does — but how consciously and skillfully we work with it. In trauma-informed, inclusive kids yoga, understanding power dynamics is not an abstract political exercise. It is a practical teaching competency.

Power Over: The Authoritarian Model

Power Over is the traditional hierarchical model — the teacher decides, the students comply. It can be efficient, and in some contexts it establishes necessary structure. But as the primary mode of a kids yoga class, Power Over can replicate dynamics that some children have experienced as threatening, and it closes down the kind of collaborative, exploratory learning environment in which yoga — and children — thrive.

Power With: Shared Spheres of Influence

Power With is the model most aligned with inclusive, trauma-informed teaching. In this approach, the teacher holds the structure of the class while genuinely sharing decision-making with students — offering choices, inviting input, and co-creating the experience wherever possible. "Do you want to try Lion's Breath or ocean breath next?" "Shall we do Tree Pose together or find our own version?" These are not loss of authority. They are invitations into agency.

Power With promotes inclusivity, collaboration, and a sense of shared ownership that makes children far more likely to engage fully — because the class belongs to them as much as it belongs to the teacher.

Power To: Student Empowerment

Power To is a step further — creating specific opportunities for children to lead, demonstrate, and take genuine ownership of the learning. In a kids yoga class, this might look like a child choosing the closing pose for the day, leading the group in their favorite breath, or teaching something they have learned to a partner. Power To is particularly meaningful for children who have historically been in positions of little power — offering them visible, supported moments of leadership that build self-concept and confidence from the inside.

📌 I Do, We Do, You Do
A simple framework for moving through all three power levels in a single class: I Do (teacher demonstrates and models), We Do (teacher and students practice together), You Do (students explore, lead, and own the practice). This progression is not just pedagogically sound — it is a map of progressive empowerment that every child in the room can feel.

Teaching Every Learner: Differentiated Learning Styles

Every child in a kids yoga class learns differently. A curriculum that only speaks one learning language will reach some students fully and others only partially. Inclusive teaching means designing for the full range — and the good news is that yoga, taught well, naturally lends itself to exactly that.

The VARK model identifies four primary learning styles — Visual, Auditory, Physical (Kinesthetic), and Verbal — and practical kids yoga teaching draws on all of them simultaneously.

Visual Learners

Visual learners process information most effectively through what they see — demonstrations, images, symbols, and spatial representation. In a kids yoga class, this means modeling movements clearly before asking students to follow, using visual cues and gesture alongside verbal instruction, and incorporating imagery ("reach your arms like branches") that gives the pose a visual anchor. Visual teaching benefits all students, including those who may not have full access to auditory input.

Auditory Learners

Auditory learners absorb information most readily through sound and spoken language. For these students: repeat key words and phrases more than once, reduce background noise when giving important instructions, use clear and simple directional language, and incorporate music and sound as intentional teaching tools rather than background filler. The rhythm and melody of a chant or a song can carry an auditory learner into embodied learning in ways that a verbal instruction alone cannot.

Physical (Kinesthetic) Learners

Kinesthetic learners do not simply want to watch and listen — they need to move. They are experiential by nature, and they learn through doing, touching, and physically engaging with material. For these students, tactile experience is not a supplement to the instruction — it is the instruction. Yoga is inherently well-suited to kinesthetic learning, but an inclusive teacher makes sure every concept is embodied, not just explained.

Verbal Learners

Verbal learners love language — reading, writing, storytelling, and roleplay. In a kids yoga class, these students come alive when a pose has a story behind it, when they are invited to describe what they are feeling, or when the class is framed as a narrative journey. Storytelling-based yoga sequences are not just entertaining — for verbal learners, they are the vehicle through which the practice becomes meaningful and memorable.

Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences: Every Child Is Smart Differently

Alongside learning styles, Harvard developmental psychologist Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences offers another essential lens for inclusive teaching. Gardner identified eight distinct intelligences — ways of being smart that traditional academic environments tend to value unevenly, but that a well-designed kids yoga class can honor all at once.

  • Visual-Spatial: strong sense of space, imagery, and visual pattern

  • Linguistic-Verbal: natural facility with language, stories, and words

  • Logical-Mathematical: drawn to patterns, reasoning, and structure

  • Body-Kinesthetic: intelligence that lives in the body and movement

  • Musical: sensitivity to rhythm, tone, and musical pattern

  • Interpersonal: deep attunement to others' feelings and social dynamics

  • Intrapersonal: rich inner life and self-awareness

  • Naturalistic: connection to the natural world and its patterns

A yoga class that incorporates movement, music, storytelling, partner work, breath awareness, and nature imagery is not just more engaging — it is more intelligent, in the fullest sense of the word. It meets each child at their strongest point of access and invites them in.

The Multi-Sensory Approach: Why Seven Senses Matter in a Kids Yoga Class

Most of us grew up learning about five senses. But effective sensory processing — the ability to perceive, process, organize, and respond to information from the environment — actually requires at least seven senses working together. Understanding this changes how a teacher designs every element of a kids yoga class.

 The Seven Senses

  • Exteroceptive senses (the classic five): Touch (tactile), Sight (visual), Hearing (auditory), Taste (gustatory), Smell (olfactory) — what is happening outside the body and in the environment

  • Vestibular: movement and balance — located in the inner ear, this sense governs our orientation in space and is directly stimulated by yoga poses, inversions, and dynamic movement

  • Proprioception: body positioning and the awareness of where our limbs and joints are in space — the internal GPS of the body, developed through weight-bearing, resistance, and mindful movement

  • Interoception: internal felt sensations — hunger, thirst, temperature, the urge to move or rest — the sense most directly related to emotional awareness and self-regulation

Why This Matters for Kids Yoga Teachers

Sensory processing impacts emotional regulation directly. When a child's sensory system is dysregulated — overwhelmed, under-stimulated, or struggling to integrate input from multiple channels — learning becomes difficult and behavior becomes communication. A teacher who understands the sensory landscape of their class can make intentional decisions about lighting, sound, texture, movement, and pacing that support rather than challenge each child's nervous system.

For children with sensory processing differences — including many neurodivergent children and children with trauma histories — this awareness is not optional. It is what makes the difference between a class that is accessible and one that is inadvertently overwhelming.

A multi-sensory approach to kids yoga is not more complicated than a standard approach. It is simply more conscious — and that consciousness is exactly what inclusive teaching training develops.

 

🏅  What You Earn

Yoga Alliance RCYT (Registered Children's Yoga Teacher)  • 50 credit hours toward PYI's IAYT-Accredited Yoga Therapist Certification  • IAYT Continuing Education (APD hours) for Certified Yoga Therapists seeking recertification. All of the principles in this blog — inclusive language, power dynamics, differentiated learning, multi-sensory teaching — are taught in depth in PYI's 95-hour Kids and Inclusive Yoga Teacher Training, led by Larissa Noto (JD, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, RCYT) and Camelia (Mimi) Felton (RYT-500, C-IAYT, RCYT).

 
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Why Trauma-Informed, Inclusive Kids Yoga Teacher Training Makes You a Better Teacher — and Changes Children's Lives

Every child who walks into a yoga class carries a whole life with them.

They carry the morning argument with a sibling, the test they are dreading, the home that is loud or quiet in ways that aren't comfortable. Some carry more than that — losses, disruptions, moments that their nervous systems are still working to process long after the event has passed.

This is not a small number of children. It is most of them. Research consistently shows that adverse childhood experiences are far more common than we tend to assume, and that their effects — on attention, behavior, learning, relationships, and the body itself — are both real and lasting.

For yoga teachers working with children, this reality is not a reason for alarm. It is a call to preparation — to understand what trauma actually is, how it lives in the body, and how the environment we create can make the difference between a child who shuts down and a child who opens up.

That preparation is exactly what trauma-informed, inclusive kids yoga teacher training provides. And it is what separates a yoga teacher who is good with children from one who is genuinely transformative for them.

📚 Foundational Reading in This Field
PYI’s Kids and Inclusive Yoga Teacher Training draws on the most respected voices in trauma-informed somatic practice, including The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, Peace from Anxiety by Hala Khouri, and H is for Healing by Zabie Yamasaki. These texts are part of the required reading for the certification — ensuring graduates enter the field with genuine understanding, not just technique.

What Trauma Actually Is — and Why It Matters in a Yoga Class

Trauma is not simply a category of terrible events. It is the impact of those events on an individual's capacity to cope. What matters is not the event itself but the adverse effect it has on that specific person's nervous system and their ability to function in its aftermath. Two children can experience the same event and have entirely different responses — because trauma is subjective, physiological, and shaped by prior experience, available support, and neurological wiring.

This distinction has profound implications for how we teach. We cannot look at a child and know whether they are carrying trauma. What we can do — and what trauma-informed training prepares us to do — is create conditions in which every child is held with enough care and flexibility that their nervous system has the best possible chance of feeling safe.

Because children learn when they feel safe. Not when they are pushed. Not when they are managed. When they are safe.

🌱 The Core Principle
Children learn when their nervous systems are experiencing a felt sense of safety — when they feel themselves, and their needs, are supported, seen, heard, and validated. This is the organizing principle of trauma-informed kids yoga, and it shapes every decision a trained teacher makes: the language they use, the choices they offer, the way they respond to a child who is struggling, and the environment they build before the first student arrives.

The Body Keeps the Score: Why Yoga Is Uniquely Positioned to Help

Bessel van der Kolk's landmark work The Body Keeps the Score established what somatic practitioners had long understood: trauma is not stored primarily in memory or narrative. It is stored in the body — in the nervous system, in patterns of tension, reactivity, and hyperarousal that persist long after the conscious mind has moved on.

This is precisely why yoga is so uniquely suited to trauma-informed work with children. It meets trauma where it lives.

But it is also why untrained yoga teaching can, in some cases, cause harm. When a teacher removes agency, cues touch without consent, or creates an environment where a child feels pressured or judged, the practice meant to heal can become another experience of being unsafe. Trauma-informed training draws a clear line between these two outcomes — and gives teachers the knowledge to consistently land on the right side of it.

What It Actually Means to Create a Trauma-Informed Space

Trauma-informed teaching is not a set of rules. It is an orientation — a way of thinking about every element of the teaching environment through the lens of safety, agency, and inclusion. In PYI's training, this orientation is applied concretely across several key dimensions. Here is the why behind each.

Language and Cueing

Invitational language — "you might try" rather than "do this" — creates a fundamentally different felt experience for a child who has learned that instructions from adults can be unsafe to refuse. How a teacher cues breath, touch, and physical challenge communicates something to a child's nervous system about whether this is a place where their limits will be respected. Trauma-informed training teaches teachers to use language that consistently communicates choice and makes it genuinely acceptable to opt out.

Agency and Consent

Agency — the felt sense that one's choices matter and will be honored — is one of the most important things a trauma-informed space can offer a child who has experienced situations in which they had none. A class that consistently offers meaningful choices creates repeated micro-experiences of self-determination that compound over time into something genuinely reparative. Consent means asking before touching, accepting any answer, and explaining to children why — giving them language for their own right to bodily autonomy they can carry beyond the yoga room.

Co-Regulation

Young children cannot regulate their own nervous systems in isolation — they co-regulate, taking cues from the nervous system of the trusted adult in the room. A calm, grounded, present teacher is not just a good teacher. They are a physiological resource for every child in the space. This is why trauma-informed training begins with the teacher's own nervous system, and why PYI's training addresses teacher self-care as a clinical foundation, not a soft add-on.

The Environment

Before a child experiences the teaching, they experience the room. Predictability, visual clarity, sensory accessibility, and a consistent welcoming ritual all communicate safety to a nervous system scanning for cues about whether to open or close. Trauma-informed training gives teachers a framework for designing both the physical and relational environment of their classes so that safety is the first thing every child encounters.

Inclusive Teaching: Meeting Every Child Where They Are

Trauma-informed and inclusive teaching are deeply connected — both are rooted in the same foundational commitment to meeting each child as they actually are. Inclusive kids yoga training prepares teachers to adapt classes for children across a wide range of abilities, learning styles, sensory profiles, and life experiences — including children with physical disabilities, neurodivergent children, children with developmental differences, and children from diverse cultural backgrounds.

The practical tools are covered in PYI's training. The deeper principle underlying all of them is the same: every child in the room deserves a practice that was designed with them in mind.

📌 An Important Boundary
Trauma-informed kids yoga is not therapy. Yoga teachers are not counselors, therapists, or healthcare providers, and the training is clear about this distinction. When we work in trauma-informed ways with children, we work as an adjunct to services children may be receiving from other professionals. Yoga is a powerful tool that can support healing alongside other care. Staying in our lane as yoga teachers is an ethical commitment that protects both the children we serve and ourselves.

Why Every Yoga Teacher Working With Children Needs This Training

You do not need to work in a therapeutic setting to need trauma-informed training. You need it if you teach children anywhere — in a studio, school, after-school program, community center, camp, or private session.

Because the question is not whether any of your students have experienced trauma. The question is whether you are prepared to serve all of them well — the ones whose experiences are visible, and the many more whose are not.

Trauma-informed, inclusive training does not make teaching harder. It makes it more human — replacing guesswork with understanding, reactive management with skilled responsiveness, and well-meaning but potentially harmful instincts with genuinely effective practice. And it makes you a more confident teacher. When you understand why children behave the way they do, you stop taking dysregulation personally and start responding to it skillfully. That shift changes everything.

Three Certifications. One Training.

Completing PYI's 95-hour Kids and Inclusive Yoga Teacher Training earns you three simultaneous credentials:

 

🏅  What You Earn

Yoga Alliance RCYT (Registered Children's Yoga Teacher)  • 50 credit hours toward PYI's IAYT-Accredited Yoga Therapist Certification  • IAYT Continuing Education (APD hours) for Certified Yoga Therapists seeking recertification  Led by Larissa Noto (JD, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, RCYT) and Camelia (Mimi) Felton (RYT-500, C-IAYT, RCYT).

 

This triple-credential structure reflects PYI's foundational philosophy: that the best yoga education advances your professional credentials, deepens your clinical knowledge, and expands your capacity to serve the people in front of you — all at once.

→ Ready to Become a Trauma-Informed, Inclusive Kids Yoga Teacher?
PYI’s Kids and Inclusive Yoga Teacher Training prepares yoga teachers, yoga therapists, educators, and wellness professionals to create spaces where every child is safe, seen, and able to learn. Earn your Yoga Alliance RCYT, IAYT Continuing Education (APD hours), and 50 credit hours toward PYI’s IAYT-Accredited Yoga Therapist Certification — all in one training. Available online for students throughout New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and nationwide. Learn more at Prema Yoga Institute.

Interested in PYI Kids Inclusive Training? Click here.

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