Yoga plays a crucial role in the development of DES students, offering many physical, mental, and emotional benefits. Introducing yoga to young learners not only promotes physical fitness and flexibility but also cultivates mindfulness and stress management skills. It helps improve concentration and focus, which are essential for academic success. Additionally, yoga fosters a sense of self-awareness and emotional resilience, enabling students to navigate the challenges of their formative years with greater ease. By instilling healthy habits and coping mechanisms early in life, yoga empowers primary students to lead happier, more balanced lives and sets the foundation for lifelong well-being.

Mindfulness of sounds

Meditation is about paying attention in and to the present moment. But you’ve probably noticed that the present moment gives us lots of choices regarding what we choose to pay attention to. The breath? Sensations? A phrase? Physical movement? How about sounds? As we practice meditation, sounds are bound to be part of the experience. There are peaceful meditation sounds and unwelcome ambient sounds. There’s meditation music with nature sounds, and there are annoying barking dogs following door sounds.

Children love sounds, especially singing bowl sounds. I can make that statement unequivocally; having played bowls for many of them, those higher sounds vibrate in children’s happiness zones. Exposing the child to more profound harmonies, I believe, will sensitize them to subtle harmonies elsewhere.