How yoga benefits children’s mental health and physical wellbeing

Yoga and mindfulness provides so many benefits including supporting learning, developing a variety of important skills in a nurturing non-competitive environment.

Yoga is an ancient science that helps to create health and wellbeing, by building self-awareness, strength and flexibility for the mind and body. Other benefits include:

• Enhanced the use of imagination
• Increases overall health
• Teaches how to work with others and behave in groups
• Teaches quietness and calm
• Reduces stress
• Teaches respect and good behaviour
• Boosts confidence
• Increases concentration
• Children relax and have fun whilst developing strength, coordination, flexibility and balance
• Teaches responsibility
• Lengthens breath
• Promotes better sleep

Best of all yoga for kids is fun, which for me as their teacher is the most important thing.

June 21st is international day of Yoga, as well as the summer solstice which marks the beginning of summer, so I choose a summer theme for event, which the children loved and thoroughly enjoyed.

By Carly Cole