The holiday season is here, and, as every teacher knows, it usually proves to be one of the most hectic times of year. December often demands an uneaten dose of patience and energy from us when our reserves may be nearly tapped.
So we’ll alimony this week’s post short and sweet. We just want to yank your sustentation to a study that just came onto our radar regarding mindful movement in the elementary school classroom.
Published early this year in the periodical Mindfulness, the study employed a mindful movement intervention meant to modernize self-regulation among at-risk urban students. In wing to yoga, the intervention included a modified Tai Chi sequence, imaginative play, and reflection.
Thirty-eight children between the month of 7 and 8 took part (55% White, 45% POC). Parent and teacher ratings of disruptive behavior, and objective measures of motor and cognitive tenancy were taken at the start of the study and then without 5 months of mindful movement. The worriedness was washed-up through two regular 45-minute sessions per week in the school gym.
At the end of those five months, Significant improvements in teacher ratings of inattentive, hyperactive/impulsive, oppositional, and other disruptive behaviors were observed. Significant improvements were moreover observed for objective measures of both cognitive tenancy and motor tenancy with particular reductions in both right and left dysrhythmia.
These findings, the authors note, are in line with previous studies on the matter.
From the primeval days of Yoga Calm, we understood the need for a solid vestige wiring for the curriculum we were developing. Not only is it important for showing efficacy but moreover for underscoring the value of mindful movement, such as how it can set the stage for improved wonk performance, increasingly peaceful classrooms, and a increasingly positive school environment.
Now, with programs like ours at risk of getting unprotected up in the ongoing pushback versus SEL – though not, notably, the skills that it helps children develop – it’s plane increasingly important that we can show fence-sitting school administrations how Yoga Calm can help them meet ever-increasing student needs. Studies like this only strengthen it.
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