Birthlight SMART (Stretch, Move and Relax
Together) Yoga Certificate
Course Overview
The birthlight SMART training course was devised by Birthlight Tutor Melanie Hamilton Davis, for those wishing to run classes for parents and carers to share playful yoga based practice with toddlers & preschoolers. Although there are many other classes for toddlers and pre-schoolers, SMART classes are special in the way that the practices are designed for adults and children to share.
To view a Birthlight SMART Yoga class,
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Course Structure
The course commences with three days of practical training, with direct tutor in put and hands on experience. This is followed by independent study, and written course work, including a case study of a class for six weeks.
Course Outline
| Time |
Day One |
Day Two |
Day Three |
| 9.30 - 11.00 |
Introduction to the course.
The needs of older babies and toddlers.
Re-visiting baby yoga practices with adaptations for mobility. |
The needs of parents - how to apply yoga beyond the class.
Yoga and movement for the parents
Mutual child / adult practices
Relaxation |
Revision of moves and class planning. |
| Break |
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| 11.30 - 1.00 |
Practical session to learn stretches, balances and movement.
Using songs and rhymes |
Visiting parents and children
Sample class with questions arising. |
Teaching practise with evaluation and feedback |
| LUNCH |
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| 2.00 - 3.10 |
Teaching practise of stretches, balances and movement.
Using songs and rhymes. |
The eight limbs of yoga and the Birthlight philosophy in practice. |
Matters arising from teaching session. Consolidation of teaching points. Managing a mobile class; teaching strategies. |
| Break |
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| 3.30 - 4.30 |
Child development 12 months - 4 years |
Devising and using Yoga stories and mini narratives. |
Your next steps:
Further resources and props, safety etc.
Course work guidance.
Course concludes. |
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To read more about the birthlight SMART Toddler Yoga program, please click here
Who can apply?
This course is ideal for anyone working with babies and school children, Preschool Teachers, Infant Massage Instructors, Kid's Yoga Teachers, or mums looking for a way to interact with your children.
Birthlight's 'mother's route to training' has produced some very fine teachers of Baby Yoga. Those trainees who do not hold a Birthlight Baby Yoga diploma are required to take an additional bridging module on infant development to enable them to understand fully the foundations from which the Birthlight courses have grown, so that they have sufficient background for the SMART course. This additional module will be delivered through distance learning, using specific reading materials, a short answer exam paper, and a 2000 word essay relating to the principles of the Birthlight approach to supporting the bond between parents and children.
Course Dates
Dates: TBC
Times: 9.30am- 4.30pm
Tutor: Francoise Freedman
Where: Yoganic, Willoughby, Sydney
Investment:
Baby Yoga Graduates: $600
Non- Birthlight Members: $720
Cost includes a comprehensive training manual written by Melanie Hamilton Davis.
About the birthlight Course Tutors
| Francoise Barbira Freedman: The founder of birthlight, a medical anthropologist and the author of 12 books including: 'Baby Yoga', 'Yoga for mother and baby', 'Postnatal Yoga', 'Prenatal Yoga', 'Yoga for Conception, Pregnancy & Birth', 'Yoga for New Mothers', 'Yoga for Pregnancy, Birth & Beyond', 'Water Babies' & 'Aqua Yoga for Pregnancy'. As well as the producer of DVDs such as: 'Baby Yoga', 'Baby Yoga for Toddlers', 'Water Babies' & 'Yoga with Babies'. To find out more about Francoise, please click here |
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| Sally Lomas: The co- director of birthlight and of Teaching. Sally is a highly qualified teacher and the Director of Joyful Babies (previously called Birthlight Cambridge). She is a birthlight Perinatal Yoga, Baby Yoga, Aqua Yoga, Infant Aquatics, YogaCise and SMART Toddler Yoga birthlight Tutor and travels the world including Singapore, Russia Turkey and Germany teaching these courses. She also has experience as a counsellor, Montessori teacher, and Active Birth Teacher, the producer of the birthlight |
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| Singing Babies DVD and has trained and worked with Francoise Freedman closely for many years. To find out more about Sally, please click here |
Places are limited to 15. To Register now, please click here
Or for Enquiries, please click here
Testimonials from Past Participants
Loved the opportunity to observe a 'real' class taught by Sally from birthlight on the first day of the course. It allowed me to see the overall picture first and then put into practise the theory I had learnt. Beautiful venue, I felt I was in a large nursery for 3 days. Dympna K. Sydney 2011.
This course exceeded all my expectations! I absolutely loved the way Sally presented it and even though I don't have kids, I have been given so much useful information that I feel so much more confident. I am so excited to start teaching! Thank you!- Nadia R. Sydney 2011.
Sally just oozes love, warmth and empathy. A wonderful instructor with a passion for birthlight- Cate B. Sydney 2011.
Sally was very caring and inspirational- Rumi K from Okinawa, Japan. Sydney 2011.
| To view Melissa's SMART Yoga for Toddlers class as screened on Channel 7's All For Kids program on March 17 at 3.30pm, click here. |
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