The yoga version of PE with Joe! ‘Yoga with Helen’ is live this week, 1-5 Feb.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
To highlight Children’s Mental Health Week, and raise awareness of the benefits of yoga for wellbeing - Helen Clare, Founder of wellbeing company Class Yoga - is providing expert-led daily live-stream yoga classes for children, and their adults.
Monday to Friday, 1st - 5th February, yoga classes aimed at children 4-11 will be streamed at 9.30am via Class Yoga’s YouTube channel. Class Yoga intends for teachers to share these classes with the pupils that are currently in school, and for parents to join in with their children at home.
“These classes are aimed at children - but children’s mental health starts with us, the adults they spend most time around! Our mental wellbeing hugely affects the children around us, which is why I encourage teachers and parents to join in with the live classes this week.” Helen Clare, Yoga Teacher, and former Primary School Teacher.
Class Yoga’s wellbeing programme for schools does the same - by offering yoga and mindfulness video resources for pupils and teachers, alongside professional development training and support.
Helen’s teaching style is unlike many other popular kids yoga channels, which are story based and very animated. Helen chooses to keep the yoga more authentic by focusing on the poses and breathing techniques, yet still teaches in a way that captivates children.
“Children have so much external stimulus throughout the day, they don’t need more during yoga! Yoga should encourage us to become more self-aware by helping us focus on our movements, breath and senses. We can’t do that if we are also telling a story. Yoga has so much potential for raising wellbeing in children - and I certainly want to maximise that potential!”. Helen Clare.
The live classes and their recordings can be watched at youtube.com/classyoga.
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