Yoga in school

Calm in the Classroom
Yoga and mindfulness can transform a children's experience of school. It gives children and young people a tool-kit for emotional resilience throughout life. Yoga movements and mindful exercises can be incorporated into PE classes or provided as short interventions to help children’s focus and concentrate, developing their ability to be calm in the classroom.

Mental Health
Yoga classes support children’s mental health by providing non-competitive movements, games and partner work - growing their confidence and self-esteem. Breathing exercises help children to self-regulate and relaxation techniques helps them find stillness and quiet to connect with their feelings. This can be transformational for children with anxiety.

Accessible Physical Goals
Yoga supports children’s physical wellbeing by helping all children, regardless of their ability at sport, to develop core strength, balance and flexibility. It also creates healthy body and proprioceptive awareness and gives children with special needs the opportunity to meet developmental milestones. Yoga also helps to prevent sports injury and aids recovery.

Experienced Team
The Wild Yoga Tree Team Emma and Siobhan have fifteen years of experience of working with thousands of children in the UK and South Africa. We can provide in-person or online Training or Yoga Days for schools. These can coincide with INSET Days or awareness days in school such as Mental Health Week or Sports Week. Emma and Siobhan also provide therapeutic classes for children with special needs in Sussex and Johannesburg.


Training Options for Schools

Yoga Training Days
Practical and Intensive whole or half day Training for Teachers and Support Staff to deliver yoga and mindfulness through PE or classroom interventions.

Teen Leader Training
Tailored training for Year 10 upwards to become Yoga Leaders in secondary schools and deliver classes to younger children.

Training in Yoga Interventions
Whole or half day training in yoga and mindulness techniques for Inclusion Managers, Sencos, Teachers and Teaching Assistants

Find an Accredited Yoga Teacher for Your School

If you are looking for a regular yoga teacher for your school please check our Find a Yoga Teacher page to connect with one of the exceptional yoga teachers around the world who have trained with Wild Yoga Tree. Teachers will have DBS checks, insurance and their training is accredited with Yoga Alliance Professionals.

Yoga Teaching Options

  • Yoga after school, breakfast or lunchtime clubs

  • Yoga for PE classes

  • Yoga and Mindfulness as part of the curriculum

  • Therapeutic yoga for children with special needs

Feedback from Schools

'Emma is a very knowledgeable professional who worked with all year groups and with a range of different abilities. She built a great relationship with all of the students she worked with. Yoga has had a positive impact on the students’ self-esteem, concentration and behaviour. It has helped to develop their motor skills, body awareness and coordination and provide sensory integration. It is ideal for young people with autism and a great addition to curricular activities. 

As well as working with students Emma provided in-house training for staff, which helped them to integrate various yoga techniques in to classroom activities. We cannot recommend Emma highly enough, she is fantastic."  Kairi Reiter, Deputy Headteacher, Kestrel House School for Autism, Crouch End, London