Yoga Therapy for Children

We provide private yoga therapy for children with special needs and also to help with memory and focus, learning ability improvement, and anxiety and stress problems. Yoga can have both short-term and long-term benefits.

Special Announcement - 2023 Research Study

We invite your children to participate in a research study about the effects of a yoga intervention for children. Compensation available!

Effects of a Yoga Intervention on Attention and Memory in Children

This study is approved by MIT Institutional Review Board (IRB Protocol 2110000497) and complies with regulatory guidelines.

For Details Visit: yogabharati.org/research

Testimonies demonstrating what we mean:

  • One teenager youth who did teacher training in 2014 - "I was addicted to my emails and would check my email every 5 mins before I started Yoga training and just in 2.5 months, I developed enough awareness to control myself and then it came down to once every hour"

A college youth who is the child of our Yoga Bharati volunteer narrated his experience recently — I was a sensitive, timid, and high-temper child and every small dissidence would bother me. Thanks to my mom who drenched me in yoga, now nothing bothers me in life. I can compare how I was then to how I am now, and I can only attribute my peace and tranquility to all the yogic talk I heard and the practices my parents made me do". Yes, it took the parents 12 years to achieve this, but this is what we call "yoga works well when we implement it as a culture of yoga for children".

How does practicing yoga help in children's memory development?

  • Relaxed learning deepens the perception

  • Reducing distractions and increasing attention span through relaxed attentiveness

  • Activating dormant areas of the brain through stimulation and relaxation

  • Sifting useful memories from useless ones through awareness

Research on Yoga for Focus/Memory and ADHD kids

Stunningly, recent research suggested that babies learn better when they are sleepy, not when they are wide awake telling us that Yoga Nidra (wakeful sleep) is a good learning aid for all age groups. 

Yoga improves memory better than Brain Training? Research brings out this aspect.

  • Timely sleep facilitates declarative memory consolidation in infants, Seehagen, Konrad et al [PNAS 1985 82 (21) 7470 – 7473]

  • Children aged 11 to 16 years showed a significant increase of 43% in spatial memory scores: Manjunath.N.K, Telles et al [Indian J Physiol Pharmacol. 2004 Jul;48(3):353-6]

  • Significant improvement in the ADHD symptoms as assessed on CARS (P-0.014), ADHD-RS IV (P=0.021) and CGI- S scales: Hariprasad et al (P=0.004) [Indian J Psychiatry. 2013 Jul;55(Suppl 3):S379-84]

  • Peer-mediated multimodal intervention program with yoga and meditation for the treatment of children with ADHD in India; One-year followup showed improvement in Vanderbilt questionnaires in 92% and remarkable improvements in the students’ school performances that were sustained throughout the year: Mehta, Shah et al [ISRN Pediatr. 2012;2012:419168]

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CONTACT 

Email: kids@yogabharati.org

Phone: 408-341-YOGA

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