Benefits of yoga & mindfulness for children

• Increases emotional and physical wellbeing.

• Develops awareness, understanding and management of emotions and thoughts.

• Promotes a healthy lifestyle and increases physical activity.

• Supports body and spatial awareness.

• Improves self-regulation which helps children to manage their behaviour and emotions.

• Develops skills that are essential for children as learners, e.g. perseverance and resilience.

• Promotes self-acceptance and self-compassion, as well as being accepting and compassionate to others.

• Creates a safe space for children to ‘have a go’ and take risks; this positive attitude can then be transferred to the classroom and other situations.

• Provides a calm space to just ‘be’, which is very much needed in our busy and hectic lives.

• Teaches strategies for children to use outside of yoga session.

• Gives children a deep sense of connection: with themselves, with others and with the wider world.

• Celebrates every child as unique; it is a fully inclusive practice.