School Yoga Coach

Learn more about SCHOOL YOGA COACH.

Instructional Yoga Coach Certificate Cohort Training includes:

1. Your first 6-month IYC Membership, including IYC Basics, IYC coaching call, and 1-on-1 business coaching meeting
2. Monthly Live Virtual Course Sessions, including recorded lessons, live instruction, and cohort discussion.
3. 6 additional Certificate Modules and Lessons: Originally $225/course
4. The IYC Handbook (and updates for continued members)
5. Access to recorded sessions
6. Activities and assignments that you can apply now or add to your practicum
7. Flexible 5 - 15 hour practicum
8. 30 min private business development consultation
9. Inclusion in the IYC Professionals Directory

Cohort groups offer problem-solving dynamics, a wealth of experience to draw from, a pool of creative ideas and strategies, and on-going friendships and support!

If you are committed to making changes in your school, your professional education role, or your yoga business then this cohort training is for you.

TRAINING OVERVIEW

IYC Basics: Intro to Instructional Yoga Coach Training 

Course #1:  Instructional Yoga Coach as Trauma Response; Terms to Know; CASEL Standards and Yoga Foundations.

• SEL and ACEs
• Needs and Goals

Course #2: The Learning Process vs the Teaching Process; Bottom-Up Processing; Effects of Stress vs Yoga on Learning; Teaching Schedules; Strategies and Interventions; Teacher Self-Care; (3 hours)

• Invitatory Language script / plan
• Create a Teacher Self-Care Routine (Tranquil Teacher Planner)

COURSE #3: Using Content Curriculum to teach Mindfulness; IYC as part of a PLC; Interviews with Teachers; Public Schools, Students, and the law (especially for struggling students); Bottom Up IPS  (3 hours)

• MTSS plan
• 1 hour classroom observation and reflection of possible areas for IYC support

COURSE #4: SSHIFT Strategy for Poly Vagal Activation Yoga and Mindfulness in the classroom for specific needs; Student anxiety and depression; IPS; Response to Collective Crisis (3 hours)

• Create a SSHIFT sequence to activate learning based on previous observation
• Student-Specific problem solving  
• Community Trauma-Responsive Plan

COURSE #5: Using IYC philosophy and strategies to address behavioral concerns, anger, and destruction; Restorative Justice / Yoga Discipline -- pros and cons; Setting personal boundaries, expectations  (3 hours)

• Using RJ or other discipline system, recommend an IYC intervention for student, teacher, school 

COURSE #6: SYC Business Proposal; Roles, Responsibilities, and Career Goals; Research and Templates to design a proposal; funding options

• Design Thinking Trauma-Responsive Schools
• Proposal and Business Plan

IYC CERTIFICATION: 5 - 15 hr practicum with a chosen school for observation, planning, and reflection -- Ideally volunteering in a classroom, but other student-centered programs are acceptable (youth groups, scouts, club activity, etc) 

Write up and Approval of the following:

• Observation: Description of students, teacher, school culture, current supports and needs, obstacles, programs, etc
• IYC Plan: Classroom Strategy; Student Intervention; Teacher Self-Care; School-Wide Professional Development

2024 Pricing

A la cart: $1950

Certificate Add-On to Membership: $1525

Cohort: $1395

Early Bird Cohort: $1250