Yoga For Young Children

The earlier that children engage with health promoting activities such as yoga, the greater the potential for benefit. Both in terms of being well in mind and body right now, and in terms of creating nurturing building blocks on which to base their futures.

Yoga for Young Children is training developed and run by Livtar Kaur (Sushmuna Yoga) for GRDP. It teaches nursery and infant school teachers how to run yoga based activities for 2-7 yr olds and is delivered as an inset day, with a teaching manual and lesson plans for a term. Further support and mentor is available on request.

During the first phase of the project Livtar Kaur travelled around the UK to deliver the training free to schools and nurseries in deprived areas. The second phase is to continue to offer the training on request at Livtar’s own studio near Gosport in Hampshire.

Livtar Kaur is one of GRDP’s advisors on children’s yoga, a yoga teacher trainer, and a former Headteacher and Lead Ofsted inspector. In 2018 she was awarded an OBE for her services in education.