SAN FRANCISCO — When Tara Guber created a yoga program five years ago for a public elementary school in Aspen, Colo., she envisioned students meditating in the lotus position and chanting “om” to ...

The number of U.S. children age 4 to 17 practicing yoga rose from 2.3% to 8.4% – or from 1.3 million to 4.9 million – between 2007 and 2017, federal data show. The number of children meditating rose ...

SAN FRANCISCO When Tara Guber created a yoga program five years ago for a public elementary school in Aspen, Colo., she envisioned students meditating in the lotus position and chanting “om” to relax ...

Conservative Christians say yoga’s ties to Eastern religion make it incompatible, but teachers and principals see a tool for learning Despite a backlash by some parents against yoga in a Cobb County ...

At schools in lower-income areas, students often report greater levels of stress and anxiety. Outside the classroom, students living in poverty may be more exposed to trying situations, from their ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Candy Gunther Brown, Indiana University (THE CONVERSATION) The number of U.S. children ...

In Tara Guber's ideal world, American children would meditate in the lotus position and chant in Sanskrit before taking stressful standardized tests. But when she asked a public elementary school in ...

An Alabama bill that would reverse a 28-year ban on yoga instruction in public schools has stalled in committee after opponents claimed the practice would introduce Hinduism into public schools. The ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – A 28-year ban on yoga in Alabama's public schools may be in place a little longer. The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday deadlocked on legislation from Rep. Jeremy Gray, a ...

(RNS) — Jyoti Evans retired from her Ohio OB-GYN practice in 2020 with plans to downshift to a low-key life of leading yoga classes. But soon pandemic lockdowns shuttered yoga studios, and Evans was ...

For the first time in three decades, yoga can be taught, but the law will still bar teachers from using Sanskrit names for poses. By Neil Vigdor For the first time in nearly three decades, Alabama ...

(The Conversation) — The number of U.S. children age 4 to 17 practicing yoga rose from 2.3 percent to 8.4 percent — or from 1.3 million to 4.9 million — between 2007 and 2017, federal data show. The ...