What Are the Benefits of Yoga for Children and Teens?

Yoga and mindfulness are more than just movement — they’re tools for life.

For children and teens, these practices support emotional wellbeing, build resilience, and create moments of calm in an often busy and overstimulating world. Through breath, movement and stillness, Rising Yogis helps young people feel more connected, confident, and at ease in their bodies and minds.

Here’s How Yoga And Mindfulness Can Help

  • Emotional Regulation

    Yoga offers simple, effective tools for managing big feelings — helping children pause, breathe, and respond with awareness.

  • Calm and Nervous System Support

    Mindful breathing and movement activate the parasympathetic nervous system, promoting a sense of safety and calm — especially supportive for anxious or sensitive children.

  • Confidence and Self-Connection

    By tuning inwards, children learn to trust themselves, listen to their needs, and move with self-compassion — not comparison.

  • Focus and Attention

    Practices that engage the body and breath support concentration, presence and learning — both in and out of the classroom.

  • A Screen-Free Reset

    In a digital world, yoga offers a chance to unplug — encouraging real-world connection, embodied awareness and rest for the mind.

  • Body Awareness and Joyful Movement

    Yoga builds strength, balance and flexibility in a fun, non-competitive way — celebrating what each body can do.

  • Stillness and Rest

    In the rush of modern life, yoga creates rare moments of quiet — giving children space to reset, recharge, and just be.

  • Resilience and Inner Strength

    Over time, these tools help children feel steadier inside — whatever’s happening around them.

  • Values and Character

    Yoga naturally nurtures qualities like kindness, patience, courage and empathy — supporting not just how children feel, but how they show up in the world.