yoga skills

Our schools hold yoga classes for students. We practice yoga everyday which prepares our students to be emotionally, physically and spiritually strong throughout their lives. Through yoga children learn regular meditation, pranayaama, intentional breathing, and a robust ‘asana’ practice, they are practicing patience and single-minded focus, improving their physical and emotional awareness, and cultivating resilience.

Our school looks at these as essential life skills that will help students navigate through social and emotional challenges during their school years as well as throughout their professional and personal lives.

Yoga can be the perfect addition to the school curriculum as it can help children keep their minds calm and grow holistically. Yoga is a treasure that has been inherited for the benefit and welfare of future generations to come.

Here are some of the benefits of including yoga for children in school:

• Improves memory and anxiety– yoga will not only keep you calm but also improve your memory concentration and will help students to score well in their exams. Matsyasana, virasana and Bhramari are some asanas that enhance your concentration level.
• Helps to manage weight – Through regular practice of asanas, children can manage a healthy weight. This helps to restraint the problem of childhood plumpness in a healthy way.
• Improves flexibility, balance and posture – yoga postures and sequences help to increase the body’s range of motion. Yoga helps to ensure that stretching is done safely, reduce the risk of injury, releasing tension in the muscles can also help them to relax and let go, helping your body to open up more.
• Teaches correct breathing techniques – breathing techniques in yoga , can be amazing for restoring balance and vitality to the body and mind. Controlled breathing can increase energy levels, and relax the muscles, reduce stress, anxiety and depression.
• Promotes mindfulness – yoga is about uniting the mind, body and breath. Mindfulness has many benefits for a whole range of health problems, it promotes positive mental health, strengthen the immune system, reduce depression and improve social relationships.
• Encourage self-love and self- care- Yoga practice is an excellent way to reconnect with ourselves and boost our self worth. Yoga allows us the time to just be ourselves and be fully present in our bodies with no judgments. It gives us the time to be still and care for ourselves deeply – in mind, body, and soul.
• Helps to bring peace of mind — meditation is a powerful way to relax and slow down the mind as any kind of breath awareness. When in seated meditation pose, you take awareness to your breathing and everything becomes more relaxed and your mind more peaceful.
• Improves self – control – yoga helps students to improve self-control. Savasana or the corpse pose is one of the best yoga asanas to calm your mind and body. This relaxing asana will help you control anger.
• Reduces stress and anxiety – The focus, centring and breathing of yoga all help to reduce stress and can be the ideal antidote to a hectic modern lifestyle. Yoga can leave you feeling relaxed and refreshed, physically, mentally and emotionally.
• Reduce violence in school/home- yoga helps students to be healthy and healthy students are less likely to remain absent from school. They tend to take part more positively in school and make healthy relationships with their classmates and teachers.