Yoga Classes in NYC for Kids & Adults

Little Flower Yoga, New York:
Located in New York City and offering yoga courses for babies, children and teenagers throughout New York in preschools, high schools or as private classes, Little Flower Yoga specializes in creating unique and engaging classes that develop students' mental, physical and emotional wellness. Education and youth development best practices are incorporated into all of our classes, and we create customized yoga programs that address topics ranging from literacy development to confidence building to nutrition and health education.

Little Flower Yoga is a unique organization that specializes in developing engaging education based yoga programs for schools and youth organizations. Little Flower Yoga is a multi-dimensional approach to addressing the interrelated physical, cognitive, emotional and social needs of youth.

Created by an educator, our programs incorporate learning goals throughout every class, and our instructors take advantage of the many teachable moments that occur in each session. Little Flower Yoga challenges students to learn in new ways, make connections, and recognize their tremendous capacity to achieve. We always encourage communication, creativity and laughter.

Little Flower Yoga grew out of a desire to see all children embrace their potential, and to help children live their lives with joy, secure in the knowledge that the world holds great wonders for them and that they have great gifts to share with the world.

Our work is rooted in the desire to see children embrace their potential, and to help children live their lives with joy, secure in the knowledge that the world holds great wonders for them and that they have great gifts to share with the world. Our instructors are trained to take advantage of the many teachable moments that occur in each class. Little Flower Yoga challenges students to learn, make connections and recognize their tremendous capacity to achieve.

Courses include:
* Yoga classes for babies, children and teenagers at different locations throughout New York
* Yoga programs for schools (preschool to high school)
* Yoga programs for families
* Private children's class
* Classes for children with special needs
* Parent-child classes

We also offer:
* Adult classes for parents and staff
* Special event programming
* Staff development workshops
* Teacher training programs

Kids are increasingly unhealthy, suffering from poor diets, polluted environments, and lack of physical activity, and yoga provides the tools to maintain lifelong wellness. Yoga is a multi-dimensional and holistic approach to meeting the interrelated physical, cognitive, emotional, and social needs of youth.

In additional to providing wonderful exercise, which so many children need as childhood obesity becomes more and more common, yoga has been linked to the I mprovement of asthma, diabetes, ADD / ADHD, insomnia, anxiety, stress-related illnesses, and many other health problems.

Yoga develops focus and concentration:
Yoga helps students develop the focus and concentration skills that will enhance learning, and increases students’ ability to work independently and productively despite the wide variety of environmental and personal distractions that surround them.

Yoga has successfully been used to help manage the symptoms of ADHD, as well as a variety of other learning and sensory integration disorders. Yoga also gives students a framework for processing and handling their emotions, helping to diffuse anger and stress and improve behavior.