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.

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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