Yoga Teacher Training to Work with Middle & High School Students + Zoom Clinic
with Melinda Atkins, MEd, E-RYT 500, RCYT, C-IAYT
- Mondays through June 7, 1–2 pm: Clinical classes with Miami-Dade public school – 24 Hours
- Total: 40 online hours + 10 distance learning hours = 50 hours
This course provides credit toward certification as a Children’s Yoga Specialist through AUM hOMe Shala.
Yoga allows young people to connect with their true nature, body, mind, and spirit. This training is essential for anyone who loves working with tweens and teenagers. Over the course of a weekend, explore the possibilities of creating a yoga class or program that meets the middle and high school student where they are on many levels—physical, mental, intellectual, and intuitive—while at the same time building mindfulness about posture and its relevance to the rapidly growing musculoskeletal structure of the teenager.
This course provides techniques to focus young inquisitive minds along with opportunities to experience in-the-field learning while assisting. In-the-field labs are subject to change based on availability of local school partners.
In designing the Yoga for Middle & High School Students training, Aum founder Melinda Atkins drew on her decade of experience teaching in high schools. Melinda created and implemented the first high school yoga program of its kind, bringing yoga to 150 students per semester as part of the PE curriculum. To support her work in the Miami-Dade County public school system, Melinda received monetary recognition from Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, specifically five Teaching for Diversity Grants and an award from the Rachel Greene Memorial Fund Grant.
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Students may alternatively choose to enroll in Adjustments and Languaging I, which consists of the March 14 and 15 dates of the course only. This 10-hour sequence follows the Ashtanga Primary series of standing as well as introducing seated poses to teach adjustments that are mindful of every body. Appropriate for seasoned practitioners and neophytes alike, this course will impart a refreshed understanding of the power of adjustments.
Tuition
Tuition rate: $925 Early Bird rate through February 15 (save $100); $1,025 after February 15
Tuition rate for Shala Students: $525 Early Bird rate through February 15 (save $100); $625 after February 15
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Cancellation and enrollment policy: If you cancel 3 weeks prior to the program, you will receive a full refund minus a $100 nonrefundable processing fee. If you cancel between 3 weeks and 1 week prior to the program, you will receive a refund of half the tuition, minus the $100 non-refundable processing fee. Cancellations less than 1 week prior to the program are nonrefundable. AUM hOMe Shala reserves the right to deny enrollment due to space limitations or any other concerns. If AUM hOMe Shala cancels a course due to under-enrollment, students will be advised within 24–48 hours and promptly refunded.
Melinda Atkins, M.ED, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT, is the founding director of AUM hOMe Shala, where she trains yoga teachers and yoga therapists. She completed her Professional Level training at Kripalu, received her Clinical Yoga Therapy certification at Loyola Marymount University, became certified in the MELT Method® in 2012, and is currently enrolled in the Master of Science program in Medical Cannabis Science and Therapeutics at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. Her yoga therapy practice focuses on those with MS and other chronic conditions and disabilities. Melinda also develops and directs yoga programs for at-risk youth in inner-city Miami schools. She holds a master’s degree in education from the University of Florida.