Launch of new online yoga and mindfulness wellbeing programme for schools.
UK based children’s yoga company, Class Yoga, launches Well Ed - offering online yoga and mindfulness classes for pupils and staff, as well as professional development training and support - with the aim to raise the whole-school wellbeing environment.
Well Ed, Class Yoga’s newly expanded school wellbeing programme, has been created by Founder Helen Clare, with support from other educational professionals. The new programme includes yoga and mindfulness video classes for pupils aged 4-11, that are already used by 1000s of children across the UK. Brand new are the video series designed specifically for the teachers themselves.
“If we really want to raise the wellbeing of our children, we must help raise the wellbeing of our educators as well. Not only do they have a hard and stressful job - but spending so much time around the children means they are hugely influential.” Helen Clare, Senior Yoga Teacher and Primary School Teacher.
Also new, is an online professional development training for educators in yoga and mindfulness for children at school. Class Yoga focuses on a live it - learn it - teach it methodology - whereby all pupils and teachers first learn to ‘live it’, by practising yoga (which includes mindfulness techniques), along to the expert led video resources; then the educators ‘learn it’, by training in the Class Yoga Method to learn how to safely and confidently teach appropriate yoga and mindfulness to children.
Finally ‘teach it’ - the third component of Well Ed, is the on-going support in the form of monthly digital resource guides, that include lesson plans, audios and yoga for special educational needs advice.
“Implementing a whole-school approach to wellbeing, can be the most powerful way to see our young people and their educators flourish - academically and personally.” Says Helen Clare.
To introduce schools to Well Ed, Class Yoga have a free webinar: The 3 Pillar Approach to Well-Being Your Pupils and Staff Need to Thrive, which can be found at classyoga.com/pillars.