Learn to transform Teen’s mental health with Yoga Therapy.

Our Yoga Therapy 4 Kids Training Course will give you the tools to impact teens lives and  provide a solution for many of the challenges teens are facing today.

The teenage years is a critical time of development, and many teens do experience mental health challenges, such as anxiety, depression, and stress.

Yoga has been shown to help teens develop coping skills and improve their overall well-being.

Studies have shown that teens who participate in group yoga classes have a sense of community and social support. This can be particularly valuable for teens who may be struggling with feelings of isolation or disconnection.

Yoga has long been shown to provide a powerful support for many adults suffering from mental health issues and trauma, and the benefits are the same for children and teens.

Here are some ways in which yoga can support teen mental health:

  1. Reducing Stress: Yoga has been shown to reduce levels of the stress hormone cortisol in the body, which can help teenagers manage stress and anxiety more effectively. Practicing general yoga poses and breathing techniques can help calm the nervous system and promote relaxation.
  2. Boosting Mood: Yoga has been shown to increase levels of serotonin, the “feel-good” hormone, in the brain. This can help improve mood and reduce symptoms of depression.
  3. Improving Sleep: Teenagers who practice yoga may experience better sleep, which can help improve overall mood and well-being. Yoga can also help reduce symptoms of insomnia and other sleep disorders.
  4. Developing Coping Skills: Through practicing yoga, teenagers can learn coping skills that they can use to manage stress and anxiety in their daily lives. These skills include deep breathing, mindfulness, and relaxation techniques.

Yoga is a beneficial practice for supporting teen mental health and after teaching over 20,000 hours of yoga to thousands of teens, I’ve seen the impact first hand.

Where yoga becomes more powerful, is being able to bring a therapeutic approach to the practice, so as to target specific issues that teens are suffering from.

Knowing how to help teens with stress and anxiety, the specific yoga therapy exercises to calm nervous systems, detox kidneys, balance the brain, and bring a sense of instant calm to that child’s body and mind, is the greatest gift.

Empowering teens with the knowledge of how to look after their own health, giving them the tools to use outside of classes to work on their mental health is the best education.

If this was taught in schools, to every child, we wouldn’t be seeing the mental health crisis in teens that we are seeing today.

Seeing a 17 year old girl, sit up at the end of 2 classes of yoga therapy for depression, stress and anxiety, sit up and say the words, “After yoga I am so happy,” is everything. It also shows demonstrates the effectiveness and speed, in which yoga therapy can help.

If you want to help teens to eliminate stress, improve their mood, develop a positive and healthy mental state, then yoga therapy is the answer.

To learn more about teaching yoga therapy to kids and teens, check out our Online Yoga Therapy 4 Kids Training Course, where you will learn over 150 yoga therapy exercises for helping children with the Top 10 issues they are dealing with today.

Love to see you there,

Loraine x