Benefits of Yoga for Children

-can offer them tools, such as breathing, to have more personal agency over their developing mind and bodies.

-improve resilience, mood, and self-regulation skills pertaining to emotions and stress.

-ability to improve young children’s physical development, executive functioning, self-regulation, and can aid in decreasing stress and anxiety.

Yoga for Children and Young People’s Mental Health

Investigating Early Childhood Teachers’ Perceptions of a Preschool Yoga Program

 

Bobby Azarian, the author of The Mindful Child, states that “Fundamental principles of neuroscience suggest that meditation can have its greatest impact on cognition when the brain is in its earliest stages of development. This is because the brain develops connections in prefrontal circuits at its fastest rate in childhood. It is this extra plasticity that creates the potential for meditation to have a greater impact on executive functioning in children. Although meditation may benefit adults more in terms of stress reduction or physical rejuvenation, its lasting effects on things like sustained attention and cognitive control are significant but ultimately less robust.”