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UK’s Low Ranking in Child Wellbeing and Mental Health Recent findings from UNICEF have highlighted a concerning trend: the UK ranks 21st out of 36 high-income countries for child wellbeing and an alarming 27th in child mental health. This places British teenagers among the most dissatisfied in the developed world, with life satisfaction levels ranking

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advocacy, life satisfaction, mental health crisis, policy, schools, teen wellbeing, teenyoga, UK child wellbeing, UNICEF, yoga for children

Nov 16 2024

Classes for Teens in 2024

Teen Yoga

poster for classes in Bath in 2024

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Mar 14 2024

Radiant Youth: Empowering Teenagers Worldwide through Yoga

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At our charity, we believe in the transformative power of yoga to empower young people across the globe. In a world where teenagers face unprecedented challenges to their physical, mental, and emotional well-being, we are committed to providing them with the tools and resources they need to thrive. Through advocacy, education, and outreach initiatives, we

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Dec 17 2021

Summit Report 2021

News & Organisation Updates

Our first Instill conference took place in London in 2015, with 70 attendees. The conference was a foray into whether there was interest in the topic of Young People, Yoga, Research and Education. The conference was then called Instill. This year the conference was opened by Sir Michael Dixon,

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Dec 19 2020

Teen Yoga Online Summit 2020

News & Organisation Updates

Between the 7th and 13th December the TeenYoga Summit exploded onto our screens raising just under £5000 for the foundation together with the raffle, which you can still enter! 217 people registered for the fabulous event, from all around the world entering the important conversation about yoga and wellbeing for young people. The highlight for

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Jun 22 2018

GAINING MOMENTUM

News & Organisation Updates

Yesterday was the 4th International Yoga Day and all over the world, yoga was being practised and celebrated in various ways. I spent the day at the House of COmmons at the APPG on yoga in society, where i found myself pinching myself again and again at the incredible steps we are taking towards

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Dec 1 2017

Teen Yoga Alert

News & Organisation Updates

It has come to our attention that there is a training programme in the UK that uses our logo and our manual but is not accredited by us. To be clear, the only teacher trainers running the accredited full TeenYoga course are Charlotta Martinus, Yvonne Morey, Helen Clare and Sarah O’Connor. If you have received

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Mar 10 2017

Instill conference clash

News & Organisation Updates

After some reflection, we have decided to postpone the Instill conference to the autumn. A key reason for this is that since setting our dates, we have noticed that the conference dates clash with one of the largest yoga festivals in the UK in Reading, which many of our potential participants would like to go

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Jan 26 2017

The end of Sportivate?

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Sport England have funded 1 in 7 active graduates of Teenyoga, either by paying for the course or by grants for teaching yoga classes to young people. However, this is changing. Sportivate was a fund set up after the Olympic Games running for 6 years, to support more interest in sport among young people in

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advocacy, funding, grants, legacy, Olympic, sport, sport england, sportivate, teens, teenyoga, yoga, yoga for teens, young people

Jan 15 2015

The Revolution is here!

Yoga in schools

Teaching young people yoga, sometimes I am aware of a clash between my values and the values of the school or the establishment I am teaching in. I suggest to my students the ideas of collaboration vs competition, love vs fear, self care vs pushing the boundaries. Sometimes I have to be careful how I

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Mar 23 2014

AHIMSA- what does it mean in the real world?

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əˈhɪmsɑː/ noun 1. (in the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain tradition) respect for all living things and avoidance of violence towards others. Ahimsa – this beautiful word, at the back of our minds, as yogis, what does it mean, in practical terms? Doing, thinking no harm, love in action. Working with people is not always easy.

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Mar 10 2014

Adolescence-the essence of life, through yoga

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Today, for the first time, three (of the 12) 14 year olds spontaneously and seriously burst into a unified Om, so loud and so surprising, I felt it in my whole body. I felt the stones and mortar of the venerable Catholic College tremor with surprise and judgment, but the kids were full of yoga

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