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Health & Well-Being with YogaA Child’s Perspective

Institute of Inner-sciences

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Contents of Presentation

Current Challenges

Yoga – An Established Wellness Solution

The Impact of Yoga

Yoga for Beginners: Overview, Opportunity, Content

Benefits of Yoga for Beginners

Success Stories

Our Partners

About Isha, Sadhguru, and Social Outreach


Current Challenges

Stress in young children is associated with health issues. [1]

Anxiety disorders affect one in eight children and often co-occur with

depression, eating disorders, ADHD, and others. [2]

In a nationally-representative study of youth, 20.1% reported being

bullied at school and 32.8% reported being in a physical fight. [3]

Childhood obesity rates have tripled in the U.S over the past three

decades. One out of six children is obese [4]


There is an Urgent need to Enhance the

Well-being of Children

Yoga and Meditation are established wellness solutions


The Impact of Yoga

Source: http://www.yoga4classrooms.com/supporting-research

Medical studies have shown that yoga and meditation can:

Reduce anger and

depression

Ease anxiety and

eliminate stress -

naturally

Enhance focus, attention,

concentration &

comprehension

Cultivate psychological

and physiological

balance

Promote a more

relaxed, comfortable

state of being

Enhance flexibility,

strength, & physical

well-being


For children ages 7 and up.

Workshop offers simple yoga

postures to bring stability and

balance to the system.

Upon completion, all participants will

have a yoga practice to take home

to experience the benefits of yoga.

Yoga for Beginners – Program Overview


Isha can conduct Yoga for Beginners

workshops for teachers & students.

Isha can also train teachers and

students to present yoga sessions.

No prior experience of yoga

is required.

Yoga for Beginners – The Opportunity


Yoga for Beginners - Content

Yoga sessions include:

Introduction to yoga and its

benefits

Guided practices with instructions

Q&A

Click here to view the Upa Yoga practices imparted in

Yoga For Beginners

https://www.youtube.com/embed/JwKSckecB_c?rel=0&autoplay=1


The Benefits of Well-Being

“The first and foremost thing we need to work at is

to make a human being peaceful and joyful.

This will invariably happen if you do the right kind

of yoga.” - Sadhguru

Benefits of Yoga For Beginners: Can relieve stress, anxiety and tension

Strengthens the spine and activates

lumbar region of the spine

Body will feel more rested, alert and

focused


Success Stories

Increase in academic and attendance performance.

Decrease in the number of suspensions.[5]

Decrease in hyperactivity and impulsivity, increase

in self-control and attention spans, and a reduction

in anxiety leading to higher IQ scores.[6][7][8]

Relief in tiredness, improvement in physical health,

sharper concentration, enhanced mental clarity, and

better interpersonal relationships.[9][10]

See References for listing of research articles.


Our Partners

Many universities, corporations and health care facilities have hosted our workshops.

Tuck School of Business

Stanford University

Wharton School

Northwestern University

University of Michigan

Vanderbilt University

Harvard

Emory

Vanderbilt

Starbucks

Hewlett Packard

Raytheon

GM

Ford

JP Morgan Chase

Bank of America

Pfizer

Henry Ford Hospital

McGraw Hill

Google

Cisco

Microsoft

IBM

Time Warner

FedEx


Isha - Enhancing Wellbeing for over 30 years

Isha Foundation, established over 30 years

ago, is an international non-profit organization

promoting health and well-being through yoga

and meditation.

Isha’s unique approach has gained worldwide

recognition and reflects in Isha Foundation's

special consultative status with the Economic and

Social Council of the United Nations.

Isha Institute of Inner-sciences is Isha’s national

headquarters located in McMinnville, TN.

Isha programs have touched the lives of

over 7 million people worldwide.


Sadhguru, founder of Isha Foundation, is a contemporary

yogi rooted as strongly in worldly and pragmatic matters as

he is in inner experience and wisdom.

Sadhguru Vasudev

Recent Awards

Indira Gandhi Award, India’s highest

award for environmental work in

recognition of Project GreenHands

Sport for the Environment Award by

Beyond Sport in Chicago for Project

GreenHands

Speaking Engagements

World Economic Forum, Davos

Australian Leadership Retreat

Tallberg Forum

World Presidents’ Organization

TED

Tuck School of Business

British House of Lords

Media Interviews

Forbes

The New York Times

BBC

Bloomberg

CNNI

CNBC

Sadhguru has served as a delegate to the United Nations

Millennium Peace Summit and the World Peace Congress. His public talks frequently draw

crowds of over 100,000 people.

Named one of India’s 50 most influential people, he has

addressed prominent global forums on issues as diverse as

socio-economic development, leadership, and well-being.


Isha Care Clinic (www.ishacare.org) – Providing free primary and preventive

care to uninsured, low income residents in areas of rural Tennessee.

Isha Vidhya (www.ishavidhya.org) – A pioneering English language,

computer-oriented education initiative in rural Southern India.

Project GreenHands (www.projectgreenhands.org) – A massive public

reforestation effort in India aiming to plant 114 million trees as fast as possible.

856,587 trees were planted by 256,289 people on a single day in 2006,

achieving a Guinness World Book of Records.

Action for Rural Rejuvenation (www.ruralrejuvenation.org) – A rural

revitalization program offering medical care, community rehabilitation and

human upliftment to more than 2,500 destitute South Indian villages.

Isha Social Outreach Projects

Isha has implemented several large-scale human service projects for

education reform, environmental stewardship, as well as holistic and

healthy living.

http://www.ishacare.org/http://www.ishavidhya.org/http://www.projectgreenhands.org/http://www.ruralrejuvenation.org/

Thank You

Please speak with an Isha Representative for

more information.

“You can create the right kind of inner

chemistry not only to be healthy, but to be

peaceful and joyful by your own nature.”

– Sadhguru


References

[1]http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2010/11/stress-in-america.aspx

[2] http://www.adaa.org/living-with-anxiety/children

[3] www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/yv-datasheet-a.pdf

[4] http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-prevention-source/obesity-trends/global-obesity-trends-in-children/

[5] http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/san-francisco-schools-transformed-power-meditation-n276301

[6] Carboni, J. A., Roach, A. T., & Fredrick, L. D. (2013). Impact of mindfulness training on the behavior of

elementary students with attention-deficit/hyperactive disorder. Research in Human Development, 10(3), 234.

[7] Jensen, P. (2004). The effects of yoga on the attention and behavior of boys with Attention Deficit/hyperactivity

Disorder (ADHD). The Journal of Attention Disorders, 7 (4), 205-216.

[8] Treuting, J., and Hinshaw, S.P. (2001). Depression and self-esteem in boys with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity

Disorder: associations with comorbid aggression and explanatory attributional mechanisms. Journal of Abnormal

Child Psychology, 29 (1), 23-39.

[9] Peck, H. L., Kehle, T. J., Bray, M. A., & Theodore, L. A. (2005). Yoga as an intervention for children with attention

problems. School Psychology Review, 34(3), 415-424.

[10] Vempati, R.P. (2002). Yoga-based guided relaxation reduces sympathetic activity judged from baseline levels.

Psychological Reports, 90 (2), 487-494
http://www.adaa.org/living-with-anxiety/childrenhttp://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/san-francisco-schools-transformed-power-meditation-n276301

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