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Over 30 years of method-building

Playful, Practical Training Built Around Human Connection

Rainbow Yoga, founded in 2007, has trained over 40,000 Kids Yoga teachers around the world, helping caring adults create spaces where children can move, play, belong, find calm, build courage, imagine and connect.

Gopala Amir Yaffa, founder of Rainbow Yoga

Created and led by Gopala Amir Yaffa

A method shaped by real teaching, not idealised poses

Gopala created the Rainbow Yoga method and leads the current online trainings, books, cards and teaching resources. Anatomy and Physiology is led by Dharak, while named local trainers lead their current in-person events.

The method grew through years of teaching children and families, then became Rainbow Yoga in 2007: experiential learning through movement, play, partner work, group connection, imagination, breath and calm.

Read Gopala’s founding story

What Rainbow Yoga feels like

Connection is not a slogan. It is the practice.

The movement looks joyful because the learning is social, embodied and human. People do not just collect activities; they practise becoming the kind of adult children can trust.

A Rainbow Yoga training group smiling together
Worldwide community
Adults smiling during a Rainbow Yoga group activity
Learning together
Adults and children making a playful Rainbow Yoga shape
Play with purpose
An adult and child sharing a colourful Rainbow Yoga activity
Real connection

What makes the method distinctive

Connection is part of the curriculum

Experiential

You learn activities by experiencing them, then consider how to adapt them for real groups.

Playful and purposeful

Games and imagination are practical ways to invite attention, courage and participation.

Partner and group based

Cooperation, belonging and human connection sit alongside individual movement and calm.

Inclusive in direction

The aim is not an ideal body or performance. Teachers learn to offer choices and reduce barriers.

Useful across settings

Graduates adapt the approach for homes, schools, studios and community spaces within their professional scope.

Humanly supported

Questions and genuine payment barriers can be discussed with a person rather than hidden behind a sales funnel.

The mission in practice

Better spaces for children begin with better-equipped adults

Rainbow Yoga invites adults to take meaningful responsibility without fear, guilt or exaggerated promises.

What adults learn to create

  • Movement without performance pressure
  • Play with purpose
  • Belonging with meaningful choice
  • Calm without forced stillness
  • Cooperation and human connection