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Benefits of Yoga

For a Child's Body

For a Child's Body

For a Child's Body

Yoga encourages bilateral motor development that engages both sides of the body simultaneously. This is achieved through poses and movements that require coordinating limbs and balancing on one foot or side, fostering a connection between the brain and body.  


Yoga also develops core strength, essential for posture and alignment as children grow up.  As the body grows bones, muscles, ligaments and fascia all need to grow and work together to achieve good postural control. 


Yoga can be used to promote blood flow to muscles to support growth and improve flexibility. This in turn will reduce the risk of injury and therefore improving performance in sports.  Stronger bodies will also digest food better, maintain a healthy weight, breathe easily and function more effectively.  

For a Child's Mind

For a Child's Body

For a Child's Body

 Yoga calms and clears the mind and brings children into the present moment.  This helps to reduce anxiety  and stress and relieves tension thus improving the ability to be less reactive.  Being more mindful of thoughts, speech and action means that children experience better emotional control through self-regulation.  


Yoga also increases concentration, focus and attention span whilst promoting thinking and boosting memory.  It stimulates auditory processing and responsiveness and expands imagination and creativity all of which positively influences neurotransmitter function.

 

 Yoga provides children with a sense of accomplishment and mastery as they learn new poses and techniques. This can build self-esteem and confidence, empowering them to try new things and approach challenges with greater self-assurance.  

Self-Care Skills

For a Child's Body

Self-Care Skills

 Yoga poses and activities give children an increased awareness of their own bodies and how they move which can help develop self-care skills.  Yoga can give young children the ability to self-regulate or better cope with their big emotions and feelings. In turn this can help with self-regulating their behaviour. 


Yoga teaches children how to use breathing and poses to calm down. For example during relaxation at the end of a class, with a mindful activity, or in child's pose. Yoga can be used to help children to alert themselves or increase their levels of concentration for example by stimulating the vestibular sense, inverting the head in downward dog pose. 


 Yoga enhances our parasympathetic nervous system activity - our rest and digest state.  All children deserve to feel this way and yoga provides them with the tools to do this for themselves.

Self Regulation

Self-Care Skills

Sometimes we need to help children manage emotions and yoga is a practice in self-regulation.  Young children are more influenced by their emotional brain rather than their logical brain and often experience BIG feelings.  Yoga can give children the ability to self-regulate or better cope with their big emotions and feelings.  We can express our feelings & emotions through our bodies by using yoga poses. By naming the feelings as we do these poses with children, they will become better able to recognise and name their own emotions. 


 Focussing on the breath or 'conscious breathing’ is important in helping children manage their big emotions.   It can help us deal with our feelings by regulating and calming our nervous system. As we slow our breath, our heart-rate and blood pressure return to normal and we start to feel less anxious or stressed. 

Sleep and Relaxation

In our fast-paced world, it's crucial to develop life skills such as relaxation and mindfulness. Our children need to be able to help themselves switch off after a busy school day and wind down before bedtime.


 Certain yoga poses, like bridge pose or legs-up-the-wall, can help release physical tension, promoting relaxation and restful sleep.  


 Yoga provides a child with the tools to switch off the mind as well as the body, ready for sleep. At the end of each class, we practise relaxation, using props to encourage deep belly breathing, allowing both body and mind to rest.


Being able to recreate this state of relaxation at home is a great way for children to help themselves drift off to sleep.

Resilience & adaptability

Resilience can be defined as "the ability to cope with adversity and adapt to change". This is an essential life skill and we can help our children to become more resilient by gaining flexibility in their minds as well as their bodies, through yoga.


 Yoga can enhance resilience by fostering self-awareness, building inner strength, and promoting emotional regulation. Through focused breath control, grounding postures, and meditation, yoga helps individuals connect with their body and mind, cultivating a sense of inner strength to navigate life's challenges.  Yoga can promote self-acceptance, fostering a sense of self and self-respect, which is crucial for resilience 


The earlier in life we can learn to adapt to change without anxiety, the more we will be able to expand our personal comfort zone and open ourselves up to infinite possibilities. 


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