Yoga and mindfulness is one approach that might help schools to support the mental and emotional resilience of their pupils and staff. Advocate and expert Jyoti Jo Manuel offers some ideas

I have had the privilege of sharing yoga and mindfulness in schools for more than 25 years. I know how hard teachers work and how committed they are to students and it breaks my heart to see the on-going and ever-increasing challenges that teachers, school management and children face.

Today, in all walks of society, there is more pressure to achieve, more stress, more anxiety, more illness and more unhappiness. The ancient practices of meditation and yoga could be the key for not only supporting a more resilient generation of young people, but also to support the adults around them.

As a mother of a highly anxious child with additional needs, and also someone who has worked with young people for years, particularly children with special and additional needs, I am very aware of the requirement on us to be the model for the child.

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