Children’s yoga. What are the benefits?

If yoga is taught to children with the right approach there are huge physical, emotional and educational benefits.

Physical benefits include greater fitness, improved flexibility for the spine and joints, better posture and improved co-ordination.

Emotionally the right approach can help children to improve their social skills, to discover ways to self calm and relax, which will help them to deal with life’s challenges and get on better with each other.

Educationally the right approach can help children to improve concentration, speaking and listening skills, their writing and even help them to understand complex ideas in interesting and vibrant ways.

The holistic effect of these benefits is to give the child an improved sense of self worth, an increased sense of self esteem and therefore a happier and healthier life.

The FIVE main areas of benefit that we target in our teaching approaches are:

1) Concentration

2) Behaviour

3) Physical fitness

4) Relaxation & Calming

5) Well-being & self esteem

Improvements in all of these areas cannot happen just because the child is performing a series of yoga postures. Improvements can only develop over time provided that:

Behaviour – improving and changing challenging behaviour is at the core of our teaching approach . This is one of the major benefits of of providing yoga as part of the integrated school day.

Do read the case study: Can Yoga Improve Behaviour?

Physical fitness – increased flexibility, muscles toned and strengthened, better posture, healthier bones, improved balancing skills.

The sum total of these aspects works to increase well-being & self esteem

If you would like to learn more about benefits or how our teaching approach can help your school then contact Michael Chissick at info@yogaatschool.org.uk