1. Students can improve their self-awareness and therefore their interoception. 
2. Slow mindful yoga can improve our mind-body connection and help us understand who we are.
3. By allowing the body and mind connection through yoga you can reduce stress. 
4. Start a journey of self-awareness, self-confidence, and mindfulness

I am a certified Yoga Alliance yoga teacher and Kids Yoga teacher.  I am also a certified mindfulness coach and meditation guide. I love mindfulness, meditation, and yoga. I love sharing it along with all of its benefits with my students. 

Please make sure to have water available and comfortable clothing that will allow movement.

Please also note: there are components of physical movement and injuries can occur if children aren't supervised. Thank you. 

There are many studies to support the use of intentions for a positive life such as  "Author Lynne McTaggart uses cutting-edge research conducted at Princeton, MIT, Stanford, and other universities and laboratories to reveal that intent is capable of profoundly affecting all aspects of our lives."https://hbr.org/2013/02/the-power-of-intent

There are countless studies about the effect of meditation and mindfulness and "Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD sifted through nearly 19,000 meditation studies, they found 47 trials that addressed those issues and met their criteria for well-designed studies. Their findings, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, suggest that mindful meditation can help ease psychological stresses like anxiety, depression, and pain.
Dr. Elizabeth Hoge, a psychiatrist at the Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders at Massachusetts General Hospital and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, says that mindfulness meditation makes perfect sense for treating anxiety. “People with anxiety have a problem dealing with distracting thoughts that have too much power,” she explains. “They can’t distinguish between a problem-solving thought and a nagging worry that has no benefit.”
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/mindfulness-meditation-may-ease-anxiety-mental-stress-201401086967

The available literature, more than a decade old, on the impact of yoga in children has shown that this mind–body practice has demonstrated positive effects in the control of anger, depression, stress, body dissatisfaction, anxiety as well as improving positive emotion. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2095496417300171