Movement, bonding, and development in a baby's first year.

Enroll: Baby Yoga & Play Teacher Training

Help babies thrive and caregivers find confidence.

Learn how to teach developmentally appropriate classes for pre-crawling babies, support caregiver confidence, and create meaningful movement experiences rooted in child development, attachment, and nervous system regulation.

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Specialized Expertise

Build the knowledge and hands-on skill to teach pre-crawling babies and their caregivers with clarity and confidence. You'll learn what an infant's body and nervous system are ready for, and how to build a class around it.

Practical & Applicable

Learn class structure, sequencing, and teaching strategies you'll use in your first session. You leave with lesson plans ready to use.

Support Caregivers

Gain tools to guide caregivers and strengthen the connection between each adult and their baby. You'll help families slow down, make eye contact, and respond to one another in real time.

Grow Your Impact

Add baby and caregiver classes to your schedule and reach families few teachers are equipped to serve well. Expand your offerings while doing work with real meaning for new parents and their babies.

Who This Is For

You work with families with new babies, or want to — as a doula, lactation consultant, infant massage educator, early childhood teacher, OT, social worker or yoga teacher
You want a class built around infant development, with caregiver and baby practicing together
No prior yoga teaching certification required. A personal practice is strongly recommended.

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What You'll Get

Full online module on the course platform — recorded lectures, manual content, activity library, and six-week lesson plans
Foundations of Teaching Yoga for Children (8 hours) course, included with your first module at no additional cost
The Baby Yoga & Play weekend intensive in Washington, DC (optional)
Access to well over 6 hours of recorded Breathing Space baby yoga classes for observation with guided reflection
6-week lesson plans
Feedback on your practice hours with at least one caregiver-infant pair, documented in the course worksheet
One-to-one onboarding call
16 module hours, completed fully online or with the in-person weekend intensive
Certificate of completion
Eligible for Yoga Alliance continuing education hours and graduate-level professional development credit through the University of the Pacific

Who You'll Learn From

Jessica Lagarde

Jessica Lagarde (RYT, LMT) has been teaching children's yoga in the DC metro area since 2005. Nearly two decades as a licensed massage practitioner shapes how she understands bodies in motion — how touch communicates, how movement builds strength and awareness, and what it actually feels like to learn something physical rather than just watch it demonstrated.

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Program Director, Lead Instructor

Jen Mueller

Jennifer Mueller (MPM, E-RYT 200, RCYT, CEIM, IBCLC) has been teaching yoga to children and families since 2008. Her background spans infant massage instruction and lactation consulting alongside children's yoga — not as separate specialties but as an integrated approach to supporting families with young children. She has taught baby yoga, toddler yoga, afterschool programs, and school day-off camps since 2008.

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Founder, Lead Instructor

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Where this can lead

This module stands on its own, and you receive a certificate of completion when you finish. Everything you complete also counts toward the Children's & Teen Yoga Teacher Certification. Committing to the full certification up front costs significantly less than buying each part separately, but you add Phase 2 whenever you're ready.

This Module

$495 · or 2 × $258
Baby Yoga & Play, 16 hours
One-weekend intensive

Full Certification

$1,395 · or 5 x $289
All three modules + Phase 2 mentorship
Every intensive and topic workshop

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What You'll Need

Access to at least one caregiver-infant pair for practice hours, such as a family member, a friend with a baby, or a parent-infant group you already work with
A 20-inch soft-bodied baby doll with bendable knees and hips for practice and demonstration (we recommend the 20" JC Toys La Baby)

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Baby Yoga & Play · Newborn to crawling · 16 hours

$495 · Payment plan: two installments of $248

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Common Questions

What do I need to have to complete it?

Access to at least one caregiver-infant pair for your practice hours — a family member, a friend with a baby, or a parent-infant group you already work with is fine. You'll also need a 20-inch soft-bodied doll with bendable knees and hips (we recommend the 20" JC Toys La Baby) to practice and demonstrate with.

How long will it take?

The coursework takes about 8–10 hours. With observation and practice hours, most people finish in four to eight weeks.

What if I want the full certification later?

Everything you complete here counts toward the certification, and you add the remaining modules and Phase 2 whenever you're ready. Enrolling in the full certification up front costs significantly less than buying each part separately.