1. Feel confident, de-stress, feel good, learn faster, communicate better and feel fitter

2. Helps you balance and feel balanced

3. It makes you focused

4. It helps you feel good about yourself

5. It helps you be kind and accept yourself

6. It increases performance

7. It makes you feel fit and flexible

8. Taking time out for yourself is important Prior Park College, Bath

9. Lying down and breathing slowly can really help anxiety Wellsway school Keynsham

10. Critical Differences Between Adult and Adolescent Thinking..

11. Adolescent Brain Development Underdevelopment of the frontal lobe/prefrontal cortex make adolescents more prone to “behave emotionally or with ‘gut’ reactions” Adolescents tend to use an alternative part of the brain - the amygdala (emotions) rather than the prefrontal cortex (reasoning) to process information

12. Adolescent Brain Development Chronic stress, and neglect sensitize certain neural pathways and over-develop certain regions of the brain (limbic region) involved in anxiety and fear. This often results in the under-development of other regions of the brain (frontal lobe) Chronic stress from fear, violence, abuse, hunger, pain, etc. focuses the brain’s resources on survival and other areas of the brain are not “available” for learning social and cognitive skills.

13. MINDFULNESS

14. There’s a difference

15. Relaxed breathing Sit up straight and uncross your legs. Let your hands rest gently on your lap. Let your shoulders relax and keep your head upright. Take a breath in, filling up from your stomach area first, to the top of your lungs. Sigh the breath out. Repeat and feel the tension release from your shoulders.

16. Classroom Yoga Hold the hands in prayer position to the heart, notice the breath. Breathe in, raise the arms, look up. Breathe out and bring arms down to the sides. Repeat. Breathe in, raise one arm to the ceiling, breathe out and take arm over the head. Repeat to other side. Breathe in, clasp hands turning out and raise arms to the front. Breathe out and raise arms over head. Release to sides. Hold both arms out to front and cross right over left and clasp hands and raise elbows, breathe normally and hold. Swap sides. Hold the hands in prayer position and notice the breath.

18. Recent feedback from 6 th Formers and Y11 Girls “I feel relaxed and able to do more at the end of the day e.g. revision. I feel clearer headed” “It makes me appreciate my friends more and less likely to snap at someone” “It makes me feel confident and happy with myself” “It makes me connect with my feelings as I normally don’t take much notice of them”

19. Brunei Gallery Lecture theatre, SOAS, Russell Square, WC1 July 13 2015

20. Further links http://www.teenyoga.co.uk/research/ MiSP-Research-Summary-2012.pdf http://www.themindfulnessinitiative.org.uk http://www.teenyoga.co.uk/ http://www.doyouyoga.com/ http://www.teenyoga.co.uk/research/ MiSP-Research-Summary-2012.pdf http://www.themindfulnessinitiative.org.uk http://www.teenyoga.co.uk/ http://www.doyouyoga.com/