Get Certified as a Storytime Yoga™ Teacher
Enrollment is now open! 9-Month Spring Semester Entry Date for Certification starts January 30, 2012. Tuition includes online training component January-May and Sept. - Dec. and live optional apprenticeship component in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. Private coaching with Sydney is additional. Register today.
Overview
What is a Storytime Yoga™ Children's Yoga Teacher Certification?
The rigorous, yet rewarding, Storytime Yoga™ Certification program trains you on the principles of Storytime Yoga™ and Mythic Yoga™. Become a powerful, enchanting storytelling yoga teacher to teach literacy, health and peace through the spoken word and the body. Learn to set up your own classes; use storytelling, props and yoga poses to keep children of all ages engaged; and develop your own story materials for presentation. The Mythic Yoga component provides yoga, meaning and a guiding myth to teach teens and adults.
A Storytime Yoga™ certification authorizes you to teach Storytime Yoga™ classes at yoga studios, schools, libraries, retreat centers and other locations. After earning your certification and meeting ongoing requirements, you are licensed to conduct Storytime Yoga™ workshops, classes, and performances anywhere in the world, for profit or charity. By joining the League of Yogic Storytellers you receive continual marketing and monthly live calls to support your career, and the Kids Story of the Month Club serves as continuing education to bring you fresh material and ideas for classes.
Storytime Yoga™ is a registered trademark, and only certified individuals may use the trademark name in their own businesses or professional work. A certified Storytime Yoga™ designation allows you to call your class a “Storytime Yoga” class.
Benefits
Set yourself apart from the countless yoga instructors out there! Designate yourself as a Storytime Yoga™ instructor, and you will automatically stand above the competition as a powerful storytelling yoga teacher.
Why pursue a Storytime Yoga™ certification? The benefits are numerous:
- Learn the classic Storytime Yoga™ method for promoting peace, health, and literacy among children, teens, and adults.
- Boost your career – discover how to conduct your own Storytime Yoga™ classes, workshops, retreats, and other paid events.
- Make more money by attracting new clients and growing your business with the prestigious name of Storytime Yoga™.
- Enjoy the freedom of designing your own classes around traditional wisdom stories, folk and fairy tales that you choose or create yourself.
- Get access to resources on business practices, finding clients, promoting your name, marketing, business Q&A, legal/contract issues, copyright laws, and more so you can run a seamless operation.
- Receive ongoing guidance from Sydney Solis via live, monthly Q&A calls and question sessions with the League of Yogic Storytelelrs international network.
- Benefit from moral support, encouragement, and networking with other certified Storytime Yoga™ teachers and students from around the world in the Kids Story-of-the-Month Club.
- Gain exposure – list your business, contact information, bio, and photos on our Find a Yoga Teacher page, where potential students and customers can locate and hire you. Get a premium website page on the Storytime Yoga site for a small set up fee.
- Display the Storytime Yoga™ logo on your own website and be associated with the Storytime Yoga™ brand, boosting your credibility.
- Take advantage of publishing opportunities through The Mythic Yoga™ Store – sell your own books, music, lesson plans and other products on our website if you are so inclined! Receive wholesale discounts on physical books.
- Become a role model in your community by spreading the joy and wisdom of Storytime Yoga. Create meaningful community projets for lasting transformation in your community and schools.
- Take Master's Level Training and lead Storytime Yoga workshopsin schools and yoga studios.
These are just a few reasons why you should pursue the program. Remember – Storytime Yoga™ is an internationally recognized brand with books, DVDs, and music published through leading booksellers (including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Baker & Taylor). A Storytime Yoga™ certification is a powerful enhancer to your credibility as a storyteller and/or yoga instructor.
Not only will you help your business grow, you’ll be helping children, teens, and adults get life-enhancing benefits of yoga, plus the soul-enriching wisdom of fairytales and stories.
You’ll be empowered to put on captivating performances for audiences of all ages.
Teachers who consistently nurture themselves and their yoga businesses can earn more money while truly making a difference in people’s lives. The Storytime Yoga™ program is an effective vehicle for accomplishing both of these goals.
Read more about the benefits of Storytime Yoga™.
See certification requirements below.
What Can I Do with a Storytime Yoga™ Certification?
As a certified Storytime Yoga™ instructor, you can teach yoga classes to children and families in schools, preschools, after-school programs, camps, libraries, in private therapy practice, as an artist-in-residence and at yoga studios and festivals. Additionally, you can teach storytelling classes to children, perform and teach in schools and festivals and as an artist-in-residence. You also have the right to display the Storytime Yoga™ logo on your website. You may call your classes “Storytime Yoga™” classes.
You can model Sydney Solis’ prolific career by building your own business, attracting your own clients, and publishing your own books and media. Use Sydney’s experience as a guide for enhancing your own professional development.
With a basic Storytime Yoga™ certification, you can host:
- Family Yoga Events
- Children’s Classes
- Family Classes
- Storytelling Performances
- Camps
- Artist in residencies
In addition to the above, a Master’s level Storytime Yoga™ certification will also allow you to host:
- Introduction to Storytime Yoga 3-hour workshops for preschools, schools, churches, community groups and yoga studios.
The Master’s level program is for those who want to “train the trainers.” It’s our most comprehensive and rewarding certification program yet. As of 8/16/11, Storytime Yoga Master Level certification is currently not available to new students. We will offer this program again in fall 2012.
Certification Requirements
The Storytime Yoga Certification program is open for enrollment twice a year: September and January. Enrollment for Spring 2012 is now open. Class begins January 30, 2012. Fall entry classes begin September 17, 2011 Register today in the store! Space is limited.
Basic Certification Requirements
To become certified in Storytime Yoga™, you must meet all of the following requirements.
Enroll in the Storytime Yoga Children's Yoga Teacher Certification course. Online component starts thid week of September and runs through end of May. Certification week is first week of June. Live apprenticeship in St. Croix, USVI is third week of January. Live apprenticeship training component and seven personal coaching sessions are included in tuition price. Attendance is not mandatory for certification but highly recommended. Airfare, hotel and meals are extra. VIP service, which includes meals and excursions, is available. Contact info(a)storytimeyoga.com for more info.
Third week of September - Storytime Yoga Teacher and Yoga Play Therapy Training Webinar
September- November - Segment I online training begins– Awakening the Storyteller - includes Body Memoirs, Children's Yoga Business Practices, Yoga Story Rehearsal and Workshop, Dreamwork and more.
December - Integration period and winter break
Third week of January - Live apprenticeship in St. Croix, USVI
February-March - Segment II online training begins– Stories from the Heart
April - May - Segment III online training begins– Mythic Yoga™
First week of June - Certification week. All course work, community project and video due. Additional time available for extra fee
Participants may purchase all three segments of the Storytime Yoga™Complete At-Home Training Guide to get started on the program from home at any time. Price of Storytime Yoga™ Complete At-Home Training Guide can be applied toward full tuition.
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Segment I – Awakening the Storyteller
Segment II – Stories from the Heart
Segment III – Mythic Yoga™
Or buy the entire package - During the training, participate in the forum, review the assignments in the At-Home Training Guide and receive comments from Sydney, as well as have the chance to be randomly selected for coaching. Additionally there a live Q&A sessions and group coaching with Sydney. Training includes enrollment in the Storytime Yoga Kids Club, which includes the League of Yogic Storytellers forum and Monthly Group Q&A session.
- Complete a community service project of your choice, and send the details of this project to info(a)storytimeyoga.com for review, with the subject line, “Community Project – SY Certification.”
- Submit a video of a Storytime Yoga™ class.
- Wait for certification approval from Sydney. If you are approved, you will be awarded a certificate stating you have successfully completed the basic requirements for becoming a certified Storytime Yoga™ teacher.
- Once certified, you may begin paying the yearly $150 Storytime Yoga™ Certified Yoga Teacher administration fee. This fee makes you a member of the League of Yogic Storytellers (LOYS) and a member of the Kids Story-of-the-Month Club, which fulfills the continuing education requirement.
Congratulations! You are now a certified Storytime Yoga™ teacher. You can have your business and contact information listed on our Find a Yoga Teacher page, where potential students and customers can locate and hire you. You are permitted to display the Storytime Yoga™ logo on your own website. You are authorized to teach Storytime Yoga™ classes in your own studio, at schools or retreat centers, and anywhere in the world.
PLEASE NOTE: Even if you have completed all basic requirements listed above, you must continually pay the $75 League of Yogic Storytellers admin fee to be included in the LOYS forum AND the $75 Story-of-the-Month Club continuing education subscription each year, ($150 total) in order to receive continued and ongoing certification. SOMC fulfills continuing education requirements.
- Both fees must be paid in full each year, in order for you to retain your Storytime Yoga™ certification. If no longer pay this fee, you lose your certification.
- Our support staff will contact you with a yearly reminder when your renewal payment is due.
- Individuals who do not pay their yearly dues will not have their business information listed on our “Find a Teacher” page. They will be asked to remove the Storytime Yoga™ logo from their websites. They will not be authorized to conduct Storytime Yoga™ classes, workshops, or events.
Master Level Certification
Masters Level Canditates are invited to apply and work with 10 hours of private coaching with Sydney to become master storytellers as well as receive training as a Introduction to Storytime Yoga Workshop Facilitator.
Feel free to email us if you have questions on certification requirements.