Yoga is incorporated into the school’s curriculum and has many benefits for our children.
Yoga actually helps children concentrate better and develop skills essential to reading because a lot of the poses require gazing off into the distance while concentrating a specific point. Better concentration skills mean a better ability to read and do math, plus there’s always the benefits of exercise. Starting at an early age really helps with muscle control as well.
From postures to breathing techniques, children stretch in fun and interesting poses such as the “downward dog” or the “sitting mountain.”
Parents see a difference at home with their children, as it relaxes a child and they often come home with a new yoga pose to tell the parents about.
View local news coverage by KXAN NBC of Goddard School’s yoga program at this link CLICK HERE
