Yoga with children and teenagers at school.

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), yoga is a safe and potentially effective therapy to help children and teens cope with physical and mental conditions and improve emotional and behavioural well-being. Back in India thousands of years ago, yoga was a practice that meant “to yoke” or “to join” the individual consciousness with universal consciousness, bringing ultimate harmony between the mind, body, and spirit. Yoga typically involves working on three aspects – physical postures, breathing exercises, and techniques to understand what is known worldwide as mindfulness.