Movement, mindfulness, and self-expression for kids and preteens.

Enroll: Kids & Preteen Yoga Teacher Training

Help kids build confidence and coping skills that last.

You learn how children develop across three stages, how to plan a semester around yoga's ethical themes, how to teach in a classroom with no mats, and how to adapt for children with different abilities and needs. You finish with sample class plans, a curriculum framework, and a pose guide.

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Specialized Expertise

Build the knowledge and hands-on skill to teach school-age kids and preteens, from energetic four-year-olds to self-conscious eleven-year-olds. You'll learn how their bodies, focus, and social worlds change across these years, and how to teach to each.

Practical & Applicable

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

Lead the Room

At this age, you're the one holding the space. Gain classroom management and group facilitation skills to keep a wide age range engaged, handle the unexpected, and create a class where kids of every ability feel they belong.

Grow Your Impact

Add kids and preteen classes to your schedule and bring yoga into studios, schools, and community programs. Expand your offerings while giving children practical tools for focus, calm, and confidence.

Is This You?

You teach or work with school-age children, or want to — in a studio, a school, an afterschool program, camp or therapy practice
You want a curriculum framework, not a bag of poses
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 Kids & Preteen Yoga module weekend intensive in Washington, DC (optional)
Access to well over 6 hours of recorded Breathing Space kids yoga classes for observation with guided reflection
Feedback on your practice hours with at least at least 3 children or families in a group setting, documented in the course worksheet
One-to-one onboarding call
16 total module hours — the same credit as the in-person intensive path
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.

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Founder, Lead Instructor

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 live workshop

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Kids & Preteen Yoga · 16 hours

$495 · Payment plan: two installments of $258

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Common Questions

Does this cover working with children who have special needs?

The module covers adaptive teaching, trauma-informed principles, and working with children with different physical abilities, sensory needs and learning profiles in a mixed group. It does not replace specialized training for therapeutic or clinical settings.

How long will it take?

Most people complete the coursework in 8–10 hours, and the full requirements including observation and practice 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.