Yoga for Teens - 60hr Yoga Teacher Training

“68% of young people in Ireland reported feeling stressed “often” or “always”

“58% of teens experienced significant reductions in anxiety and depression after a yoga program.”

What makes teaching teens different to teaching adults?

  • Often different motivations (for teens it might be part of their school schedule, football club, their mam sent them etc whereas adults usually decide fully by themselves)

  • Different developmental stage

  • Different needs

  • SHORT attention spans

All of these mean you need to adapt your approach

 

How does yoga support teens?

Teenagers struggle with so many things from exam stress to sports injuries to self-esteem issues, and while yoga is not a magical cure it sure can support teens with all of the various struggles they are facing.

  • Mindfulness - Support teens with stress, anxiety and self-esteem

  • Emotional regulation - yoga supports teens regulate their emotions. This is particularly important as teens face many new experiences & challenges which can cause an emotional rollercoaster.

  • Physical - Supports students build mobility to support prevent injuries and to support students to move. They spend hours at desks, come home and spend some more hours sitting to study and then relax by sitting on their phone, which is a whole lot of sitting. So incorporating yoga and movement into their lives will bring mental and physical benefits.

  • Tools - Giving the teens tools they use in their daily lives. Tools to support them not only at peak exam stress but in the build up to relieve stress as it comes.

 

Are you inspired to share the benefits of yoga with the next generation?

What will I learn?

You will learn how to deliver interesting and impactful classes for teens

We will look at the following categories from the perspective of both the teenage brain and physical development

 

  • Yoga 1st Years

  • TYs / Language Schools

  • Class Management

  • Coping with compulsory attendance

  • Being self conscious

  • Body Awareness

  • Yoga for Sports Teams

  • Physical Development

  • Reducing the number of injuries in teens 

  • Over Training

  • Drop out rate

  • Yoga for Senior Cycle

  • Nervous System

  • Tools (including meditation & breath)

  • Power of Expectation

  • How to choose the appropriate tool

  • Role of Parents

  • Stress Management for Parents

  • Teaching Teens

  • Asana for teens

  • Games for teens

  • Partner poses for teens

  • Pranayama for teens

  • Neurodivergent teens

  • Physical, Social & Brain development

  • Hormonal Changes

 

Leave feeling confident that you can teach each of these groups and adapt your knowledge to support other teens.

Other groups which you could adapt the classes to are:

  • Parents and Teens

  • Language Schools Programmes

  • After School Programmes

Explore:

  • Sequencing yoga classes for teens

  • Safety and alignment in yoga for teens

  • Tools and techniques to effectively teach teens

  • Dealing with any challenges that arise

  • Teenage development (brain, emotional & physical)

  • Pranayama (breath) tools for teenage stress management

 
“Chronic stress in adolescence can alter brain structure and function, especially in areas like the hippocampus and amygdala.”

The Teachers

This course has been created by the team behind our very successful Yoga for Teens programme in English Language Schools across the country, along with secondary school teachers, drama teachers and yoga teachers.

 

Accreditation

Fully certified and accredited by

  • Aruna Yoga Academy

  • Yoga Alliance Professionals

 

The Specifics

What is included?

  • 4 x training days

  • Pre-recorded learning material

  • Asana Library - how to poses for teachers

  • Libraries for Students & Parents - how to poses

  • Meditation library

  • Sample class plans for each of the groups

  • International certification

How will I learn? - Blended

In Person

  • 4 days in person (must all be attended for certification)

  • Assessment on last day

On Demand

  • Pre work - 1 month pre in person days (must be completed for certification)

  • Ongoing support for 1 month post in person days

Who is this for?

  • 200hr Qualified Yoga Teachers

  • Parents with a passion to teach their teenagers Yoga and meditation at home.

  • School teachers, occupational therapists or any professional who has been working with Children/teens

Dates:

Start date: 1st OCtober 2025 - this is our suggested start date for the course pre-work

In person dates: Tuesday 28th - Friday 31st October 2025

Location: Aruna Yoga Studio, Rathcoffey, Co. Kildare

Your investment: €750

Early Bird €695