Ask your child what he did in gym class today and he's likely to tell you the tree pose. That's right. Along with the traditional dodgeball and Foursquare, yoga has hit the school-age P.E. scene and ...

In an effort to help students maintain energy levels and focus while at the same time combating childhood obesity, many area school districts have brought non-traditional exercises into the classroom ...

HANOVER COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — At Rural Point Elementary School, staying active doesn’t just happen in gym class. The school is a Sports Backers RVA school, which means there’s yoga in preschool, ...

A yoga program planned for Aspen Elementary has been put on hold as school officials and parents evaluate its potential religious impact on the classroom. Twelve classes of children, totaling 220 ...

ST. PAUL— Anthony Apps finds peace when he becomes a candle. The 7-year-old kneels on the floor, presses his hands together and closes his eyes. He inhales and exhales, and then repeats. Suddenly, his ...

The back-to-school period can mean a stressful transition for students, parents and teachers alike. To help them manage that anxiety, the nonprofit program Y.O.G.A. for Youth is bringing techniques ...

With more than 20 years of classroom experience under her belt, Mary McGuire, a teacher turned school counselor and owner of The Yoga Schoolhouse in Omaha, has a lot of tools in her teacher tool belt.

Children were described as “squirrely” by teachers and staff last Thursday, the day before conferences and a three-day weekend at Lake Ripley Elementary. When social worker Tammy Minton made her ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — With anxiety and mental health issues on the rise for children during the pandemic, one Guilderland School District therapist teaches kids to cope with the new onslaught of ...

Marisa Religa discovered her passion for yoga when a friend from college “dragged” her to a class in 2008. The Niagara Falls school teacher’s first experience with hot yoga — a type of yoga performed ...

On a recent morning in Diane Petro’s Kindergarten class, 18 sets of feet curled up in the lotus position: It was yoga time. The bustling room suddenly turned quiet as the students left all their ...

At a time when stress in U.S. schools is on the rise, the results of a new study hammer home what others have shown: that yoga in schools may be a great benefit to kids’ mental health. The results, ...