Yoga for Kids

Yoga and Stress

With changes in family structures, financial anxieties (especially in today’s recession) and longer days at nursery or school to enable parents to work, stress at home can translate into stressed kids. Yoga classes can provide a wonderful release for children, helping them to de-stress, as well as develop their self-confidence. Classes can provide a safe environment for children to vocalise and physically release energy, including any negative emotions, such as anger and upset.

According to a survey in the Daily Mail (15th October 2009), 21% of schools are now offering yoga as an all-inclusive and non-competitive activity. During these classes, children are typically taught correct warm up postures, breathing and relaxation techniques. These, along with standing postures, forward bends, back bends, twists and inversions, help maintain children’s flexibility, increase their strength and also their mobility. In addition they help children feel relaxed, calm and in control.

Waybuloo Programme on the BBC

Fenella Lindsell is the Founder and Director of YogaBugs. She believes that Yoga encourages youngsters to enjoy the benefits of regular exercise and can be the basis for a healthier lifestyle in the years ahead. Fenella is also the Yoga Consultant to the CBeebies Waybuloo programme, which provides children with yoga activities each day along with teaching children about emotions and feelings. As a result of Waybuloo, there has been a dramatic increase in the interest in yoga for kids.

About YogaBugs

YogaBugs is the worlds largest children’s yoga company dedicated to delivering Yoga to children,
YogaBugs (aged 2 ½ – 7) and Yoga’d Up (8-12 year olds) throughout the UK. Teachers take the younger children on magical story-style adventures and deliver fun, themed classes for the older ones.

So a YogaBugs child might ride on a magic carpet, take a supersonic space mission to the moon, play football with crabs or dance in an underwater palace. A YogaBugs child will enjoy creative themes that encourage the class to work together and enjoy variedposture work and fun yoga challenges.

For further information, please go to: www.yogabugs.com