Yoga for Schools
WiggleBums/Kids aims to provide a complete approach to raising children by safely supporting schools throughout the first few vital years of a young person’s life. We recognise that every child is unique, and understand that the range of opinions and attitudes towards raising children is varied, and so we offer a layer of support to each school empowering and enabling them to consciously shape our next generation.
The WiggleBums/Kids training is comprehensive and inclusive of children with additional needs so you can feel safe knowing that all children, no matter what their background, can actively join in. Through our classes, children learn key life skills that have roots not only in traditional yoga practices and philosophy, but also in child psychological development and mindfulness. Going beyond regular children’s activity classes, we encourage all teachers and carers to fully participate in the class, giving them the opportunity to reconnect with themselves and their role as teachers and guides. Through music, movement and play, these classes promote healthy ways to talk, listen and be with our children, and support and guide them in their emotional, mental and physical development as well as enhancing a teacher’s tool box.
We recognise how formative these early years are, and the philosophy behind WiggleBums/Kids is to help children identify and express their range of emotions, allowing them to become more confident and self-aware. They say it takes a village to raise a child, WiggleBums/Kids is our modern day approach to helping create the community, security and love that the traditional village or extended family would have provided.
Our aim is to provide all children access to appropriate interventions using the yoga practices of breathing (pranayama) moving (asana), hand gestures (mudras) relaxation (savasana and yoga nidra), visualisations and mindfulness. These life skills will hopefully be the tools they need to help prevent any issues becoming a huge mental health problem later on in life. When it comes down to it, we all want similar things in life such as feeling loved, trusted, understood, safe and valued and this isn’t always found in the home. The next best place is within the school, where some children can spend up to ten hours a day.
WiggleBums/Kids aims to supply the life skills & psychological tools that can help the children manage their feelings, stay connected to who they are, remain focused on what they wish to achieve and grow the mindset that will take them there. Prevention is far better than cure, so we have a daily opportunity within each of the classrooms to create and shape the kind of mentally and emotionally balanced individuals we need in this world.
