Yoga Therapy for Youth 100-hour Certification 2026
Building Resilience and Capacity to support Mental, Physical and Emotional Well-being for Youth through Yoga, Movement, Breath and other Therapeutic Approaches
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🌟 100-Hour Yoga Therapy for Youth Certification
Therapeutic Yoga & Somatic Practices for Children, Teens, and Young Adults
The 100-Hour Yoga Therapy for Youth Certification is designed for professionals who are ready to commit to a comprehensive, progressive training experience supporting children, teens, and young adults.
This Teachable enrollment is for the full certification program only.
Individual public modules are not purchased separately through this page.
Participants enrolled in the certification complete both the Public Modules and the Certification-Only Modules as part of one integrated training pathway, learning spaciously with an average of two live meetings per month.
Certification Tuition
Regular Pricing - $2,100.00
Early Bird - $1,950 (if paid by January 30th, 2026)
Payment plans available
Enrollment Includes
- All Public Modules
- All Certification-Only Modules
- Live Zoom trainings with recordings
- Self-paced learning, reflection, and practice integration
- Eligibility to receive the 100-Hour Yoga Therapy for Youth Certification
Included with Certification Enrollment
- 5 Kosha Intake Form
- Sensory Assessment Tools
- Asana Assessment Tools
- Printable Therapeutic Yoga Sequences
- Connection with like-hearted community
- Access to private Facebook group
- Participants also receive access to short weekly video practices to enhance their practice and embodied learning
- Mentorship with Shawnee Thornton Hardy throughout the course of the training
Public Modules (Included with Certification Enrollment)
Saturdays | 9:00–12:00 PM (PT) | Live on Zoom
For children, teens, and young adults
Public Modules are standalone trainings that focus on specific populations or themes related to supporting children, teens, and young adults through therapeutic yoga and somatic practices.
Participants enrolled in the certification will take ALL Public Modules as part of the 100-hour training.
Public Modules Included
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Therapeutic Yoga & Somatic Practices for Neurodiversity
(Autism, ADHD & Sensory Processing) (Saturday - March 21) - Therapeutic Yoga for Down Syndrome & Hypermobility (Saturday - April 18)
- Therapeutic Yoga for Scoliosis (Co-led with Rachel Krentzman, PT, Yoga Therapist) (Saturday - June 6)
- Working with the Perfectionistic, People-Pleasing & Highly Sensitive Child, Teen, or Young Adult (Saturday - July 18)
- Therapeutic Yoga for Anxiety, Depression & Trauma (Saturday - August 22)
- Therapeutic Yoga, Child & Adolescent Development & Primitive Reflex Integration (Saturday - September 12)
- Grief & Loss in Children, Teens, and Young Adults -A Therapeutic Yoga Approach (Saturday - October 24)
- Embodying True Nature Through Nature - Yoga • Ayurveda • Earth-Based Practices (Saturday - November 21)
Certification-Only Modules
Included in the 100-Hour Yoga Therapy for Youth Certification
Mondays | 6:00–8:30 PM (PT) | Live on Zoom
The following modules are included only with enrollment in the full 100-Hour Yoga Therapy for Youth Certification and provide the foundational knowledge, clinical frameworks, and professional training that support therapeutic yoga work with children, teens, and young adults.
Certification-Only Curriculum
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Foundations of Therapeutic Yoga for Youth
(Koshas, Chakras & the Eight Limbs)
Monday, March 9 | 6:00–8:30 PM (PT) -
Child Development & Developmental Milestones
Monday, April 6 | 6:00–8:30 PM (PT) -
Pediatric Anatomy, Physiology & the Brain
Monday, June 1 | 6:00–8:30 PM (PT) -
Asana, Pranayama, Mudra & Mantra – Therapeutic Benefits
Monday, August 10 | 6:00–8:30 PM (PT) -
Aromatherapy for Youth
Monday, September 7 | 6:00–8:30 PM (PT) -
Working One-to-One in Therapeutic Settings
Monday, October 12 | 6:00–8:30 PM (PT) -
The Business of Yoga & Yoga Therapy
Monday, November 30 | 6:00–8:30 PM (PT)
Training Format & Logistics
LOCATION:
Online via Live Zoom, Recorded Lectures, and Self-Learning
DATES:
March 22 – November 30, 2026
(Public and Private Modules)
LEARN VIA:
Online Modules, Webinars, Reading/Study Time, Live Zoom Workshops, Community Facebook Forum, and Final Project Hours
*Participation in the Live Zoom meetngs is a requirement for the completion of the Certification. Should there need to be 1 or 2 missed zoom meetings - you will need to watch the recording of the missed zoom meeting, write a reflection of what you learned and make up any missed group work or exercises practiced in the group meeting. Please note- there will only be 2 missed meetings allowed unless you have arranged an extenuating circumstance in advance with Shawnee.
Prerequisite
Prerequisite suggested – Foundational knowledge in yoga
📩 Contact
Please contact Shawnee with questions at yogabyshawnee@gmail.com
🌍 IAYT Member School
Yoga Therapy for Youth is officially a Member School with the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT).
This course is an APD course through IAYT and counts as 80 CEUs.
Reading Requirement
Yoga Therapy for Children and Teens with Complex Needs –
A Somatosensory Approach to Mental, Emotional and Physical Wellbeing
Your Instructor
Shawnee is a C-IAYT -Certified Yoga Therapist, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, M.Ed., and Educational/Behavioral Specialist. She is the Founder of Asanas for Autism and Special Needs and the Founder/Director of Yoga Therapy for Youth Certification Program. Shawnee has worked with children and adults with and complex and diverse needs for 30 years. She has specialized in working with children and adults with neurodiverse needs, sensory processing challenges, communication differences, developmental disabilities, mental health challenges and trauma backgrounds. Shawnee works with private clients of all brains, bodies and abilities to facilitate health and healing. Her goal is to bring the experience of yoga to all individuals no matter their differences or challenges.
She has written two published a books, Asanas for Autism and Special Needs – Yoga to Help Children with Their Emotions, Self-Regulation and Body Awareness and her second book - Yoga Therapy for Children and Teens.- Embodying a Somatosensory Approach to Mental, Physical and Emotional Wellbeing has just recently been published and is NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE! She is also the creator of the C.A.L.M.M Yoga Toolkit and Body Sensations Curriculum.
She has a Yoga School through Yoga Alliance in order to train others in yoga approaches to support children and adults with neurodiverse needs and children and adults with complex needs needs and travels globally to share her teachings. Shawnee is dedicated to helping support youth and adults in developing strategies to cope with stress in order to live happier, healthier more empowered lives.
Shawnee has experienced first hand the benefits yoga and somatic practices can provide to health and overall well-being as she is a survivor of childhood trauma as well as multiple significant traumas in her adulthood, resulting in a diagnosis of PTSD. She is also a cancer survivor. She has a unique combination of understanding neurodiversity, developmental disability, trauma and other complex needs and knowing how to support people of all ages in connecting to their authentic self and building more capacity and resilience in order to live life in a more embodied and empowered way.
Shawnee has led several workshops at major conferences both in the US and Internationally; including MISTY (Montreal International Symposium for Yoga Therapy) and IAYT (International Association of Yoga Therapists) SYTAR Conference on Yoga for Sensory Processing and Self-Regulation for children with ASD, BOOST Conference (Best Out of School Time) on Yoga for Children with Special Needs , Yoga and Mindfulness for Youth and Yoga to Reduce Stress and Increase Relaxation for Educators. TRUST Conference (Teens Understanding and Reflecting Stigma Together) on Learning to Breath, Yoga and Mindfulness for Teens, including teens struggling with mental illness and UCSD Bridging the Hearts and Minds of Youth Conference on Yoga and Mindfulness for Sensory Integration and Self-Regulation.
Shawnee has written for and has had her work featured in several magazines,podcasts and online resources. See media features here.
Shawnee also offers private and small group therapeutic sessions for children and adults as well as yoga and somatic movement workshops and trainings through her company Embodied Wellness Yoga Therapy.