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The 4-day Tots & Tykes Itsy BItsy Yoga Facilitator Training
As seen in Parents Magazine, PEOPLE, Yoga Journal, CNN, and USA Today, Itsy Bitsy Yoga® for Tots & Tykes offers a fascinating flow of unique yoga poses, songs, stories, and games through which parents and young children can deepen their bond. Help our children learn healthy habits by bringing Itsy Bitsy Yoga® classes to your community! This 4-day Tot & Tyke training with Itsy Bitsy Yoga founder, Helen Garabedian, prepares you to become a Certified Tot & Tyke Itsy Bitsy Yoga Facilitator (CIBYF) for 10-month to 4-year-olds and their parents. If you practice yoga or already work with children, you will love this training because it offers the most developmentally-sound and heart-centered child/parent yoga training available!

Early Childhood Development & Yoga
Now that mobile tots are busy exploring and tykes can mimic and talk, Itsy Bitsy Yoga appeals to their natural skills, abilities and interests to enhance their well-being, body awareness and self-confidence. You will deepen your understanding of child’s physical, cognitive, social and verbal development as it relates to yoga for a 10-month to 4-year-olds.

Teaching Itsy Bitsy Yoga®
As a Itsy Bitsy Yoga facilitator you will know exactly how to honor and appeal to independent tot and tykes. Each class is personalized around the curiosities and interests of the child participants. You will learn how to properly teach and sequence more than 75 age-appropriate poses, group activities, songs, breathing exercises, and relaxation techniques. You will discover how the interactive Itsy Bitsy Yoga Sing & Do Rhymes can keep busy 10-month to 4-year-olds eager to participate in yoga. You will be able to impart practical ways for parent participants to playfully enhance their children’s yoga practice in and out of class.

Class Building
IBY provides the tools needed to build a weekly curriculum that will keep tots, tykes and their parents returning session after session! We will thoroughly examine and practice the poses, we will watch and discuss videos of Helen Garabedian teaching Tot & Tyke IBY 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 while nurturing self-respect, friendship and freedom of expression.

Experiential Learning
This training will help you tap into your playful, creative side so you can be the best Tot & Tyke facilitator possible!  

• Learn the best way to speak and listen to young children!
• See how much fun the 75+ Tots and 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 10-month-olds to four-year-olds and their parents.
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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 Tots & Tykes Facilitator Training Fee is $645 and includes:
• Four days of interactive training with Helen Garabedian, founder of Itsy Bitsy Yoga
• A 200+ page Tots & Tykes 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 Tot & Tykes 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!***

Tots & Tykes IBYF Certification Process:
1.) Attend the 4-day Tots & Tykes IBY Yoga training with Helen Garabedian.

2.) Complete recommended reading before or after the training.

3.) After attending the 4-day training, you will arrange, promote and teach a two IBY mini-sessions in your community (one tots and one tykes) to intergrate the material learned during the training. Each IBY mini-session is 4 consecutive class meetings.

4.) Four months from the date you complete the 4-day Tots & Tykes training, the following items from the Tykes certification packet are due in order to receive your Tots & Tykes IBYF certification:

• Take-home Tots & Tykes Itsy Bitsy Yoga Exam
• A minimum of 4 Tots Class Evaluations from the students who attend your 4 class Tots IBY practice mini-session.
• A minimum of 6 Tykes Class Evaluations from the students who attend your 4 class Tykes IBY practice mini-session.
• Two Class Reflection Reports (one Tots & one Tykes)
• Signed Non-Exclusive Limited License Agreement enabling you to take full advantage of the benefits of being a Certified Itsy Bitsy Yoga Facilitator for Tots & 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 days of training with Helen Garabedian before you are qualified to teach the Little Families 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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