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While yoga is helping our teens to manage stress, promote self confidence and focus. Yoga is also helping athletes in terms of building strength, balance, agility and endurance. When implementing yoga, these teens are benefiting in their athletic passions, in the classroom and in life.

Trust Yoga is educating young athletes about how yoga affects their bodies through increased flexibility, improved muscle recovery, greater range of motion, a stronger spine and, most importantly, reducing their risk of injury.

Programs Offered to Teens and Athletes

Flow, Connecting and Integrating

Faster pace, aerobic. Promotes deep and even breathing. When we string poses together, we give teens a taste of what it means to move with ease. It also helps them build the awareness that all our movements are a series of coordinated efforts between muscles, bones, joints and nerves.

Strengthening and Energizing

Slower pace. Focusing on classic postures and correct alignment in the body. Yoga is great for stretching as well as building strength. I choose to include conversations, as well as exercises around how helpful yoga is in both realms. Talking about the different muscles used in poses and incorporating games and sequences will help build strength as well as body awareness and coordination. Bodies that are strong digest food better and maintain a healthy vessel.

Awareness and Focus

Yoga helps create awareness in the body through deep breathing and movement. It gives teens and athletes a way to express themselves, build a strong connection between what they hear and what they do. Teens that have healthy body awareness are more confident and resilient human beings, have stronger posture, breathe more fluidly and have a sense of quiet, humble strength. This quiet strength can then be transferred onto the field and the court.

Balancing

Balancing poses teach teens and athletes that with increased focus, you can increase attention naturally, even in teens who struggle with different challenges related to attention. Certain poses and techniques which focus on balancing skills, develop an intrinsic strength, evoke a meditative feeling, and promote stillness and quieting of the mind. This can help teens deal with the stress of living in a world where constant stimulation is a part of life. Allowing them to maintain more focus and consistency on and off the field and court.