Train and Teach - NOW

This training is designed to give you the fundamentals of teaching and enjoying yoga and mindfulness with kids of all ages.  You will learn how to design age-appropriate lesson plans so you can have fun teaching and feel confident with a variety of age groups and abilities.  This interactive workshop will focus on stress management, partner poses, mindfulness, and breathing, along with physical and social awareness.  These are skills kids can carry with them for a lifetime!


  • Learn to implement the practice of yoga, mindfulness and breathing into your classroom, therapy practice, yoga class or any environment where it may be beneficial. Classes of all considerations and ages.
  • Learn yoga poses and fun, engaging activities that can connect to youth and their needs
  • Help learn 1 minute activities up to an hour long class to help achieve a desired result
  • Gain practical experience teaching
  • Learn to have more fun and be more effective as a caregiver of youth
  • Increase your kids ability to concentrate, focus and de-stress
  • At the completion of this training, you will walk away with a certificate of completion, allowing you to start teaching immediately
  • Apply your teaching right away through kids classes at the YMCA
  • Work with experienced trainers: Jessica Gershwin is one of the handful of RCYTs & E-RYTs in the state with thousands of hours working with kids and adults alike.
  • Current RYTs receive 12 hours of CECs as our classes are led by YACEP and you can record those hours on the Yoga Alliance website.
  • Trainees wanting to continue on with their full, 95 hour RCYT training with us will be able to apply 12 hours directly to the certification

Upcoming Youth Yoga Intensive Dates & Times:

July Intensive: July 22 & 23 (Saturday & Sunday, 9am - 3pm)
September Intensive: September 15th & 16 (Friday 6pm-9pm, Saturday 8am-5pm)
November Intensive: November 18 & 19 (Saturday & Sunday, 9am - 3pm)





The practice of yoga has tremendous benefits for our youth: physical strength, muscle flexibility, stress release, increased coordination, emotional regulation, increased focus, stronger body awareness, and so much more.  These benefits are learned through a series of yoga poses, activities, games, breathing techniques and mindfulness exercises.  Come, learn and experience all of these and see for yourself the skills the youth in your life can gain.

Participants of this weekend intensive will leave with a certificate of completion.  It is our intention and goal that you leave this weekend experience with the confidence and skills to teach a youth yoga class or exercises to support the communities that you would like to reach.

After the completion of your weekend training, there will also be an opportunity to observe, assist and teach live youth yoga classes at the YMCA to give you the added practical experience and confidence to share your knowledge.

This training is for anyone looking to implement yoga, mindfulness or breathing techniques with young people.  From teachers, to therapists, to caregivers this training will help you implement basic, fast-coping techniques using the ancient practices of yoga.  You could also go further and deeper by incorporating these techniques into a class, 5-60 minutes, to offer youth a well-rounded experience.  Previous yoga or kids yoga experience is not needed.

This intensive weekend training will be offered multiple times a year.  The next offerings of this training are:

-       July 23 & 24th, Saturday & Sunday, 9am-3pm
-       September 15th & 16th, Friday 6pm-9pm, Saturday 8am-5pm
-       November 18th & 19th, Saturday & Sunday, 9am-3pm
All of our trainings and youth yoga classes are held at the Schlessman Family YMCA; 3901 East Yale Avenue, Denver, CO 80210.

Young Yokes is Registered Children’s Yoga School through Yoga Alliance.  Along with the weekend intensive trainings, we also offer the full Yoga Alliance approved 95 hour training to become a Yoga Alliance Registered Children’s Yoga Teacher (RCYT).  This experience begins Friday, September 15th.  In order to become a RCYT there are three requirements:

-       Certificate of completion from a 95 hour RCYT program

-       30 hours of teaching kids yoga classes
-       RYT 200 status, meaning that you have completed a 200-hour teacher-training program.  This can be done prior to or after the completion of a 95-hour RCYT program.  Your certificate of completion does not expire.

To learn more about the RCYT program please click here.