Self-regulation skills

Yoga can give young children the ability to self-regulate or better cope with their big emotions and feelings. In turn this can help with self-regulating their behaviour.  Yoga classes teach children how to use breathing and poses to calm down. For example during relaxation at the end of a class, with a mindful activity, or in mouse pose. Yoga can be used to help children to alert themselves or increase their levels of concentration. For example by stimulating the vestibular sense, inverting the head in downwards dog pose.