Gymnastics, swimming, dance, martial arts, basketball, soccer…there are many choices available to parents for physical, movement-based extracurricular classes for their children. What makes yoga different? Yoga is a fun way for children to develop important skills in a nurturing, non-competitive environment. From a young age, children begin to experience pressure to perform academically and socially. Add to this the pressure of competitive, organised sports and it’s easy for youngsters to become overly self-critical or lose confidence.
Yoga can be a great remedy for the tension associated with these daily stressors as well as an important facilitator of healthy physical, emotional and cognitive development.
There is increasing evidence to support the vast benefits of yoga practice for children. One study published by the University of California (2003), found
