Breathwork And Movement for Schools

Specialising in providing the Breathwork and Movement programme for schools including yoga for children. These real wellbeing practices for children and adults have been adapted to work for the whole school community. Our Breathwork and Movement programme includes breathwork and movement, yoga, mindfulness, meditation, tai chi and qigong.

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Breathwork and Movement Programme Benefits

Providing the whole school community with essential wellbeing tools to thrive in the present and prepare for the future. Helping you to reach your full potential

Learn a range of safe breathing techniques suitable for schools and how to move with the breath.

Learn how to self-regulate, increase concentration, feel calm, change your mood, be creative, feel peaceful, soothed and relaxed.

Learn about anatomy and understand how the breath works.

Learn how to use the Breathwork and Movement programme in the classroom  to optimise learning.

Learn the skill of deep rest and experience the 3R’s of wellbeing:

Relax, Rest, Recharge. 

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The programme is delivered by well qualified, skilled, specialists working together with school wellbeing teams; a model of collective efficacy to strengthen relationships within the school and the wider community.

Excerpts from a Breathwork and Movement Session at the Crescent Primary School. Children learn how to slow down their breathing and move with the breath to balance their nervous system and feel calm. They tune into their physicality using the breath as a guide and move in a way that feels good to each individual. They move in a non-competitive, non-performance way that develops their strength, balance, flexibility and coordination. At the end of the practice they learn how to properly rest so they can recharge and feel great for the rest of the day. At the end the session is completed with a kindness practice to themselves and others, creating community cohesion, compassion and gratitude. 

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World Education Summit 2022

Available for a year – How wellbeing practices are an essential skill for the third millennia. “As children in a class breathe together, they connect on a level that enables them to see the best in each other and themselves. This creates an amazing learning environment, bringing about improved holistic wellbeing and allowing children to reach their potential.” Lesley explains the 3 essential ingredients necessary to improve wellbeing in schools.

World Education Summit 2023

Speaking at the world eduction summit in 2023 and available for a whole year,  find out about the Breathwork and Movement programme and how to use simple breathwork techniques in the classroom as an excellent behaviour for learning tool, supporting both teachers and children with transition, self-regulation, exam nerves, concentration, creativity and engagement.  Lesley also shares a practice she delivers for high performing leaders and CEO”s. 

Breathwork And Movement For Schools Testimonials

“Breathwork and movement has never been part of my practice or to be honest my thought processes however since Lesley Collinson has delivered her sessions in schools, I can honestly say I am a convert. I have seen a really positive impact on children both within the actual sessions and also around the school”
Sarah Hunter, Head teacher, Broadmead Primary School

“Breathwork and Movement is an embedded part of our curriculum now and for the past year has underpinned our school development plan as part of pupil self-regulation. Lesley has delivered her sessions across the whole school  and there has been a huge improvement in children’s personal development, who now have life-long strategies to maintain good mental health.” Head teacher, Verity Denman, The Crescent Primary School​

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Breathwork And Movement Testimonials

“I think that the yoga helped with my breathing and relaxing in a stressful time. Being able to be more relaxed helps me feel more calmed when we do exams or tests. It helps me go to sleep as well. This is why I would like to have yoga at my secondary school.”
Aurora, Year 6
“It’s really helped me…. I wake up at 1 or 3 or 5, now I breath at night and I can sleep.”
Kemmi, Year 4
“It makes me calm happy and relaxed. If there is something I can’t do it makes me want to try to do it even more.”
Jayden, Year 5
“It’s amazing. I want to do it every day I love yoga because it’s the best. It makes me very calm.”
Savannah, Year 1
“I feel really happy and calm after Breathwork.”
Santiago, Year 5
“We have seen transformations in both individual children and classes as a whole. Children, who were initially fidgety with some distracting others and generally finding focus a challenge, have now evolved in their ability to engage with the practices.”
Deborah Polak, Family Worker and School Counsellor
“Yoga helps me calm down and since it’s on Tuesdays it helps me stretch out for gymnastics”
MS, Year 5
“I really like doing yoga because sometimes when I am angry or worried when I do yoga everything is better”
Harriet, Year 4
“When I get angry and fight with my friends, yoga helps me clam down and make up”
Annabel, Year 5
“Yoga helps me get things of my mind and is calming, chill and relaxing and if your sporty it helps your muscles to be free and before I am always angry but now I’m not and it helps with gymnastics.”
CM, Year 6
“I do my breathwork. I do it before bed when I can’t get to sleep or I do it in class when I’m really stressed and it really helps. When I do it I feel calm and relaxed and when I do it in class, I can concentrate”
Darcy, Year 4
“Starting Year 7 would be stressful I think it would be a great way to calm. Yoga helped me breathe and relax. It is nice finding different yoga positions I could do for different amounts of time. The flexibility in movements was a nice aiming thing you could do at home or anywhere.”
Lucy, Year 6
“I would like to do yoga again because it relaxes me and makes my unwanted thoughts go away for a decent amount of time. It also prevents my sore muscles from aching ; makes me very focused on my breathing.”
Evelyn, Year 6
“Yoga helps me regulate when I am mad and makes me calm with the moves”
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Lee Pender – Director of Education & Deputy CEO, OLEVI and OPAL: “Lesley’s series of breathwork sessions created the headspace for our OPAL founding fellows to focus on their physical and mental wellbeing, whilst experiencing breathwork exercises.   Lesley’s calm approach was contagious!  We received positive feedback from fellows, a group of high performing educationalists, many of whom had never experienced breathwork practice before.  Working with Lesley encouraged fellows to reflect on their daily practice, considering what they could imbed in order to support their own wellbeing and performance.” 

Jack Legget, NQT: “The Breathwork has been brilliant for my class. I have a class with behaviour issues and it helps them calm before the next lesson. As a teacher, taking part has also eased anxieties and eased my mind for the rest of the day. It clears my thoughts and I can think of my next steps for the day.”

Deborah Polak, Family Worker and School Counsellor: “We have seen some transformations in both individual children and classes as a whole. Children, who were initially fidgety with some distracting others and generally finding focus a challenge, have now evolved in their ability to engage with the practices.”

Children’s Feedback of Breathwork and Yoga in School

11 May 2024 No Comments

Children's Feedback

Listen to children talk about the benefits of breathwork and yoga in schools. How do breathwork and yoga improve learning in class? How do breathwork and yoga improve wellbeing in school and at home? Does breathwork really help with concentration and sleep? Hear firsthand from children why they want breathwork and yoga in schools.

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