In OOSH services, educators are constantly looking for ways to balance energy, encourage wellbeing, and create calm transitions for children after a busy school day. Yoga in OOSH offers a simple, inclusive practice that combines movement, mindfulness, and fun. With just a few minutes of guided breathing and playful poses, children can reset their bodies and minds, helping them feel more focused, relaxed, and ready for the next activity.

Yoga games offer a treasure trove of benefits for kids—blending movement, mindfulness, and play in ways that support both body and mind. The following provides 20 Yoga Games For Preschoolers.

On 21st June, it is International Yoga Day. It is a day to highlight the importance of Yoga and its benefits for our mind and body. The following provides a list of free printables, activities and templates that can be implemented into the curriculum for children. 

Like other professional contexts, the early childhood setting too, comes with its own set of pressures and anxieties. Mindfulness can be an excellent way for Educators not only to find their own calm but also to teach children valuable lessons on de-stressing and self-regulation. The following article provides information on What Is Mindfulness, How It Can Help Educators, How It Can Help Children and more. 

The Yoga Colouring Pages are for children to colour, paint, or collage. These are great for children to observe the different types of yoga poses and to begin to identify them. When children practise yoga it increases their confidence, builds concentration and strengthens growing bodies. It teaches children to be calm while gaining awareness of the body, self-control and discipline.

The Yoga Poses For Children Posters illustrate 16 different yoga poses/asanas for children to practice. Each poster demonstrates the child's yoga pose/asana, followed by the yoga pose name in English and Sanskrit. These are great to be used as a display or refer to when teaching children.

When children practise yoga it increases their confidence, builds concentration and strengthens growing bodies.  For children with behavioural issues, yoga can improve their impulses in a positive direction and provides them with an outlet as a way to manage their behaviour.

Yoga is one form of practise which includes breath control and specific body postures (asanas), that provides a range of physical, spiritual and mental relaxation.

This template enables Educators to show how they implement Yoga with children at their centre.