ST. PAUL— Anthony Apps finds peace when he becomes a candle. The 7-year-old kneels on the floor, presses his hands together and closes his eyes. He inhales and exhales, and then repeats. Suddenly, his ...

In an effort to help students maintain energy levels and focus while at the same time combating childhood obesity, many area school districts have brought non-traditional exercises into the classroom ...

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — Lora Frank-Fuller showed a classroom of first-graders at Fulton Elementary School how to close their eyes, breathe through their noses and “plug” their index and middle fingers ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Toledo Public Schools students are learning the meaning of namaste in a new yoga class. The principal at Martin Luther King, Jr. Academy for Boys said the TPS multi-tiered systems of ...

Ask your child what he did in gym class today and he's likely to tell you the tree pose. That's right. Along with the traditional dodgeball and Foursquare, yoga has hit the school-age P.E. scene and ...

With more than 20 years of classroom experience under her belt, Mary McGuire, a teacher turned school counselor and owner of The Yoga Schoolhouse in Omaha, has a lot of tools in her teacher tool belt.

“Yoga is very branded,” Lora Kantorovich, owner of Evolve, a new mobile yoga studio in Philly tells me. Her point? When you think of practicing yoga, you think of a classroom in a studio or maybe an ...

Mindfulness means having a moment-by-moment awareness of thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations and surrounding environment. Though it has its roots in Buddhist meditation, a secular practice of ...

A large crowd voiced a vast array of opinions on a proposed yoga program for Aspen Elementary School students Wednesday. The three-hour meeting of the Aspen School District board drew teachers, yoga ...

On a recent morning in Diane Petro’s Kindergarten class, 18 sets of feet curled up in the lotus position: It was yoga time. The bustling room suddenly turned quiet as the students left all their ...

“Yoga is not about touching your toes. It’s about unlocking your ideas about what you want, where you think you can go, and how you will achieve when you get there.” Amy is a Prana Power Yoga student, ...