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Tykes Itsy BItsy Yoga Facilitator Training
As seen in Parents Magazine, PEOPLE, Yoga Journal, CNN, and USA Today, Itsy Bitsy Yoga® for Tykes offers a fascinating flow of unique and developmentally-centered yoga poses, songs, stories, and games through which parents and children can deepen their bond. You can help our young children learn healthy habits by bringing Itsy Bitsy Yoga® classes to your community! This two-day Tyke training with Itsy Bitsy Yoga founder, Helen Garabedian, prepares you to become a Certified Itsy Bitsy Yoga Facilitator (CIBYF) for 21-month to 4-year-olds along with their parents. If you practice yoga or already work with preschool-aged children, you will love this training because it offers the most heart-centered and developmentally-sound child/parent yoga training available!

Early Childhood Development & Yoga
Now that tykes can mimic, walk and talk, Itsy Bitsy Yoga uses those skills to enhance their well-being, body awareness and self-confidence. You will understand a child’s physical, cognitive, social and verbal development as it applies to 2-4 year olds and yoga. We will discuss the role yoga plays in supporting the ongoing development of motor skills. We will also explore the numerous ways yoga can benefit this age group.

Teaching Itsy Bitsy Yoga®
As an Itsy Bitsy Yoga facilitator you will know exactly how to honor and appeal to independent tykes. Each Tyke class is personalized around the curiosities and interests of the child participants. You will learn how to properly teach and sequence more than 50 age-appropriate poses, group activities, breathing exercises, and relaxation techniques. You will discover how the interactive Itsy Bitsy Yoga Sing & Do Rhymes can keep busy 2- 4 year olds eager to participate in yoga. Understand how to guide parent participants to playfully engage their children with yoga in and outside of class.

Class Building
IBY provides the tools needed to build a weekly curriculum that will keep tykes and their parents returning session after session! Once we thoroughly examine and practice the poses, we will watch and discuss videos of Helen Garabedian teaching Tyke yoga classes. You will get specific details on how to promote yourself as a CIBYF, organize classes, sequence poses, include props, and incorporate themes. You will learn behavior management techniques that support a positive, non-competitive class environment that encourages self-respect, friendship and freedom of expression.

Experiential Learning
During the training you will tap into your playful, creative side so you can be the best Tykes facilitator possible!

• Learn the best way to speak and listen to young children!
• See how much fun the 50+ Tykes poses can be!
• Practice sequencing and teaching poses.
• Organize, promote and teach community classes.
• Get marketing tools and answers to your business questions so you can get started right away!

During this training, you can earn general elective CEU's towards the 200-hour National Yoga Alliance Teacher Certification. Ultimately, this training will give you the wisdom to successfully promote and teach fun and beneficial yoga classes for two to four year old tykes and their parents. See the Training Schedule

Helen Garabedian founded Itsy Bitsy Yoga International in 1999. She is a Certified Yoga Teacher, Infant Developmental Movement Educator, Infant Massage Instructor and the author of Itsy Bitsy Yoga: Poses to Help Your Baby Sleep Longer, Digest Better, and Grow Stronger. Helen has practiced yoga and meditation since she was a child herself and as a mother she enjoys sharing yoga with her son Andrew. Ms. Garabedian is a sought after baby yoga & early childhood development expert and a consultant to other parent/baby education programs and toy manufacturers.

The Tykes Facilitator Training Fee is $375 and it includes:
• Two days of interactive training with Helen Garabedian, founder of Itsy Bitsy Yoga
• A 100+ page IBY facilitator manual/reference book
• Tykes IBY Teaching Kit
• A certification packet, which provides you with all the necessary tools you will need to become a certified Itsy Bitsy Yoga facilitator
• An Itsy Bitsy Yoga t-shirt
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***SAVE $25 if you register 30 days prior to the training!***

Tykes Certification Process:
1.) Attend the 2 day Tykes IBY Yoga training with Helen Garabedian.
2.) Complete recommended reading before or after the training.
3.) Four months from the date you complete the 2-day Tykes training, the following items from the Tykes certification packet are due in order to receive your Tykes IBYF certification:
• Take-home Tykes Itsy Bitsy Yoga Exam
• A minimum of 6 Tykes Class Evaluations from the students who attend your 4 class Tykes IBY practice session.
• Tykes Class Reflection Report
• Signed Non-Exclusive Limited License Agreement enabling you to take full advantage of the benefits of being a Certified Itsy Bitsy Yoga Facilitator for Tykes.
• Non-certified yoga teachers must also include the Yoga Self-Study Exam with a $25 processing fee.
• Bio of less than 50 words for www.itsybitsyyoga.com (and photo if available.)

LITTLE FAMILY ITSY BITSY YOGA NOTE:
The Little Family IBY program accommodates one or more children within a family in a mixed age class for newborn babies to age 4. In order to teach the Little Family IBY program you must complete training and certification in Baby/Tot and Tykes IBY. That’s a total of 7 of days of training with Helen Garabedian before you are qualified to teach the Little Family IBY class.

CIBYFs who receive their certification in the Baby/Tot and Tykes programs will be mailed guidelines and information on how to teach Itsy Bitsy Yoga’s Little Family class. Once CIBYFs in baby/tots/tykes review the Little Family information, they join in on a conference call with Helen to review the Littly Families curriculum and answer any questions.

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