We've been a children's yoga training school with a strong ethos since 1998. The cornerstone of our training is to empower you to empower the children you know through a creative exploration of the full pantheon of the Hatha yoga tradition.
The Yoga Bananas Children's Yoga Teacher Training Course offers a comprehensive and innovative system of teaching children's yoga that certifies you to teach whilst sending you out bursting at the seams with creativity and fully confident to embrace your new career.All the material is unique and constantly evolving and taught in small groups by creator and founder, Skip Oliver.
The Yoga Bananas Children's Yoga Teacher Training Course offers a comprehensive and innovative system of teaching children's yoga that certifies you to teach whilst sending you out bursting at the seams with creativity and fully confident to embrace your new career.All the material is unique and constantly evolving and taught in small groups by creator and founder, Skip Oliver.
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We've been a practising children's yoga training school since 1998 with a strong ethos. The cornerstone of our training is to empower you to empower the children you know through a creative exploration of the full pantheon of the Hatha yoga tradition.
The Yoga Bananas Children's Yoga Teacher Training Course has one aim - to make a valuable contribution to the well-being and future of society, helping children and their mentors live a meaningful life whilst laying down a long-term blueprint of mental and physical health.
The Yoga Bananas Children's Yoga Teacher Training Course has one aim - to make a valuable contribution to the well-being and future of society, helping children and their mentors live a meaningful life whilst laying down a long-term blueprint of mental and physical health.
If more businesses were like Skip's the world would be a much kinder and more content place.' Yoga Bananas offers a 1 Day Children's Yoga and Mindfulness Course especially for schoolteachers. The Yoga Bananas Schoolteachers' Course is for teaches who would like to train in breathing, visualisation, basic yoga techniques, physical theatre and meditation to creatively work with children.
Just do it! Skip is an amazing, interesting and warm person and her enthusiasm for her work is infectious. She is a supportive and encouraging teacher and instills confidence in the trainees on the course and the children in her classes.' This pioneering accredited and certificated course offers an intelligent, practical and highly creative approach to teaching children's yoga.
Yoga Bananas has taught over 1500 students from Holland, Tahiti, Abu Dhabi as well as the rest of the UK and the Channel Islands. Many graduates of the course have taken the time to write kind and generous words about the course. Thank you Skip, for such a fun and enlightening weekend. The knowledge is deep and round, the concept is superbly holistic, your enthusiasm is infectious.
A long-established and rewarding vocational Children's Yoga course recognised by the Independent Yoga Network, Yoga Alliance Professionals UK and a CEU course with the Yoga Alliance US/Worldwide. Est. 1998. Suitable for anyone who has been practising yoga for 40 hours or 2 years. Inclusive of a 50,000 word illustrated manual and vegetarian lunch.
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Karen Rossiter
Mar 08, 2021
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If you are looking for an intelligent, informed, expert, caring and positive learning environment, this is a great place to start. Skip is a very experienced yoga practitioner and teacher of both adult and children's yoga - at all levels. She is very approachable, with an open, friendly and accessible style - no matter what your previous level or knowledge. I can highly recommend the classes and the experience in general. Totally welcoming and very enjoyable. Never a dull moment :O)
Artemis
Jan 24, 2021
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I attended a 3 day teacher training course with Skip Oliver, aimed at Primary level children.
The course was fun, informative and well structured.
Skip is a highly experienced yoga teacher . Her approach to delivering yoga to kids is imaginative and fun.
As a special needs teacher , who wants to share yoga with her students, this course has provided me with an excellent foundation.
Seeing Skip demonstrate a yoga lesson to primary school children on the final day was the perfect finale!
Skip also recommended accommodation nearby and I turned my 3 days into a mini break for myself.
The course was fun, informative and well structured.
Skip is a highly experienced yoga teacher . Her approach to delivering yoga to kids is imaginative and fun.
As a special needs teacher , who wants to share yoga with her students, this course has provided me with an excellent foundation.
Seeing Skip demonstrate a yoga lesson to primary school children on the final day was the perfect finale!
Skip also recommended accommodation nearby and I turned my 3 days into a mini break for myself.
Allison Linney
Jan 06, 2021
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Yoga Bananas is truly the best professional development training I have done in my twelve years as an educator. It positively added to my ongoing personal development as a yogi as well. Skip’s unique course was rewarding, engaging, and inspiring and so this excellent three-day children’s yoga teacher training course comes highly recommended. The content is meaningful, dynamic, and incredibly creative. Through stories, songs, and the wonderful energy that is Skip Oliver, Yoga Bananas is an intensive programme that fully embodies its motto, ‘Empowering you to empower children.’ I wholeheartedly
Victoria Lucas
Aug 25, 2020
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I learnt so much from Skip’s 3 day Yoga course. She is highly experienced and an excellent trainer. We had such a lot of fun learning the Yoga Bananas technique and we fitted so much into the 3 days! The final day ended with us seeing Skip teach a Yoga Bananas class in a local primary school. I now can’t wait to teach it to my own class!
Deb Bradley
Jan 05, 2020
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Liz McGlenn
Nov 22, 2019
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I started my Children’s yoga teacher training with Skip a couple of years ago and was delighted to come back and train with her for the Teen yoga.
I love the amount of original content that Skip has provided. The course books comprehensive and are set out in a way that empowers you to be creative with your own class design.
Training with Skip is always fun and is peppered with her own experience of raising children and of course her many years of teaching.
Thank you :-)
I love the amount of original content that Skip has provided. The course books comprehensive and are set out in a way that empowers you to be creative with your own class design.
Training with Skip is always fun and is peppered with her own experience of raising children and of course her many years of teaching.
Thank you :-)
Saskia Janssen
Dec 25, 2017
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Becoming a Children's Yoga teacher with Yoga Bananas has been the best decision I've made in a long time. The intensive 3 day course bursts with creative content that speaks to Primary School childrens minds. I'm grateful for Skip's sunny confidence, providing me with a technique that makes teaching yoga to children a real joy! I highly recommend Yoga Bananas. Namaste!
Sophie Phillips
Dec 05, 2017
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I was unsure what to expect when I decided to go ahead with the Yoga Bananas training but I thoroughly enjoyed the course. It was such a fun and inspiring experience full of lovely likeminded people and a wonderful teacher. Skip was so enthusiastic and encouraging throughout, making me feel confident and able in my teaching ability. I completed both the kids and teens training and have come away from the course feeling so excited about the future! I can’t wait to put what I have learnt into practice and share my love of yoga to young people in the hope to empower them to live happy and healthy
Anna Harling
Oct 21, 2017
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A truly inspirational course delivered with so much thought, care & love. Skip has created every detail of this amazing training course with such passion & her ability to infuse her deep understanding of children's yoga to all who are fortunate enough to experience her teaching, is infectious & life-changing. I can only hope to be able to pass on a little of her passion to the children I teach.
Octavia Hampton
Jul 16, 2017
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I completed the Children's Yoga Teacher Training course with Yoga Bananas in February 2017. I spent considerable time researching all the viable training options on-line and decided that the Yoga Bananas course was most closely aligned to the knowledge I was seeking. The company ethos is sound and the teaching is superb. I came away from three intensive days feeling completely prepared to make a positive difference to the children I wanted to work with. I now teach wonderful groups of children from First Schools and Kindergartens and I love every moment. The material worked through on the course
