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YogaBugs Is The UK’s Largest Children’s Yoga Specialist

Delivering Yoga Inspired Postures Through Story Telling

Working Alongside The EYFS Criteria And ECM Agenda

Social Development Adventures

Communication & Language

Emotional Development

Physical Development

Safe Environment

Ofsted Reports

Emotional, Physical And Literacy Development

Emotional Benefits: Increases Confidence, Self-Respect, Self-Esteem, Creativity, Breathing, Body Awareness, Behaviour, Memory Rentention, Relaxation, Fun, Safe, Team Work, Imaginative, Manage

Emotional Stress, Decreases Anxiety, Peaceful Sleep, Improves Overall Well-Being, Full Inclusive And Non-Competitive

Physical Benefits

• Strengthens muscles aiding

movement.• Maintaining flexibility.• Improve breathing.• Develops Balance.• Stimulates the internal

systems and keeps the organs

healthy. • Strengthens the immune

system.• Helps prevent and relieve

constipation.• Improves co-ordination. • Balance energy levels. • Supports other sporting and

physical activities and is a

valuable aid to preventing

injuries.• Reduces muscle tension and

pain.

Themed Classes, Stories And Adventures

Supports SEN

Supports Disabilities

ADHD & ADD

• Difficult to concentrate for prolonged periods.• Developing a relationship through yoga can help boost their confidence, concentration

and sense of well-being.• Squeezing postures like the Eagle/Garudasana are good for children with self

confidence issues and ADD. • Children will also enjoy rolling and rocking movements.• Tensing and relaxing the limbs helps to soothe the nervous system.• Side ways stretches help to diffuse anger as they work on the gall bladder meridian.

Dyslexia & Dyspraxia

• Children with dyslexia find disability in their body positioning and co-ordination.• Challenged in numeracy and sports skills and any tasks that require sequencing.• Children with dyspraxia benefit from clear and simple instructions – mouse posture

can help them become aware of their bodies and their breathing.• Breathing helps these children to focus and listen.• Children with dyslexia have benefited from the eye exercises as these help to develop

the optic nerve and in turn encourage the brain to work more effectively.• Yogic Breathing – Strengthens immune system and improve the function of the central

nervous system.• Balancing Postures – Develops concentration levels whilst the postures work helps to

improve body awareness, in particular through holding postures for a little longer.• Relaxation and Visualisation – Good for concentration and memory retention

Autistic Spectrum Disorder

• Children on the autistic spectrum have very low muscle tone and are often left handed.• The cross mid line challenges of postures such as cycling and climbing that YogaBugs offers

can support and assist these children at many different levels.• Through the focusing of the mind and breathing techniques, yoga offers autistic children the

opportunity to improve their mobility, memory and communication skills.• Find it difficult to imagine, therefore it is much easier to describe going in and out of the posture

without identifying the animal, tree etc… itself.• Relaxation can help autistic children reflect and unwind after a session.

Asperger's Syndrome

• Yoga will help these children to have a greater physical awareness of their body and how it

moves, which may make them higher functioning individuals in terms of age appropriate goals. • Children with aspersers syndrome have low muscle tone and are extremely flexible therefore

they would benefit from the strengthening effects of the posture work. • Yoga postures help to build strength around the vulnerable areas of the joints whilst helping to

develop muscle tone. • Calming and tension releasing exercises can be suitable for reducing coping mechanisms such

as hand flapping.• YogaBugs encourages a lot of praise which benefits their self-esteem e.g. ‘I like the way you

snap your arms in crocodile or standing tall like a tree’.• Children with aspergers can suffer from ‘overload’. This is when there is too much noise or too

many people around them, therefore yoga encourages individual work and relaxation at the end.

Cerebral Palsy

• Reduce areas affected by high muscle tone so that the body is able to move more freely. This is

achieved through stretching the muscles but also through mobilising the spine, and in turn

releasing pressure on the discs and reducing muscular tension through the radial nerves.• Posture work helps to release tight muscles and strengthens weak muscles in other areas.• Postural alignment works on both over and underdeveloped muscle groups as it is such a

comprehensive way of exercising the body.• Begin at floor level for children who find it difficult to balance.• Reduce high muscle tone in the calves, yoga can help encourage children to walk on their heels.

Downs Syndrome

• Children with downs syndrome are generally affectionate and extremely flexible.• The function of the lymphatic system is improved through posture work, which in turn aids the

immune system. These postures include chest thumping and knee hugging.• The endocrine system is strengthened and this helps with stabilising weight as children with

downs are more prone to weight gain e.g. seated forward bends.• Children with Downs Syndrome have Atlas Instability (their top cervical vertebrae are weak).

Avoid inverted postures with extreme flexion of the neck.

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