Little Yoga Friends visits schools and classrooms, offering a customizable yoga and mindfulness curriculum to support whole child development, learning and well-being. Visits are offered to preschools, as well as public and private schools. Little Yoga Friends uses content from the Yoga 4 Classrooms curriculum, as well as original content, to create lessons that support social-emotional growth and physical development. For more information about school visits, please contact shana@littleyogafriends.com.
School Visits
Fitting yoga and mindfulness lessons into an already full school schedule may prove challenging, but Little Yoga Friends will work with your school's administration, teachers, and/or PTO to find opportunities for sharing these important tools with children and school staff. Some possibilities for school visits include:
- Weekly, biweekly, or monthly classes
- Classroom visits linked to Social-Emotional learning
- Yoga as a P.E. class/unit
- Classes offered through Creative Arts & Science programming
Why Yoga in Your School?
There is a growing body of research suggesting that integrating mindfulness and yoga into schools and classrooms offers significant benefits for students, as well as classroom climate. Some of these benefits include:
- Improved emotional regulation
- Eases anxiety and tension
- Promotes a relaxed, comfortable state of well-being
- Improved stress management
- Brings students into the present moment
- Beneficial motor breaks
- Reduces anger, frustration & fatigue
- Enhanced resiliency & copy skills
- Enhanced focus, concentration, attention, comprehension & memory
- Opportunity for patience, reflection & insight
- Improved mind/body awareness
- Enhanced flexibility, strength, & physical well-being
- Improved confidence & self-esteem
- Greater respect for oneself & others
- Creates a calm, harmonious classroom, and positive school climate
- Improved state of well-being for teachers
* To view research associated with these benefits, please visit: http://www.yoga4classrooms.com/supporting-research