Nursery World - Nurseries get the yoga bug in storytelling

Yoga classes based on creative storytelling are aiming to help children at the Childcare Corporation's nurseries improve their flexibility, strength, concentration and self-confidence. The Childcare Corporation, which operates 15 nurseries across central and southern England, has run weekly YogaBugs sessions as part of its curriculum since 2002. The classes have proved so popular that the nursery chain has sent another 16 staff on the intensive two-day YogaBugs training course.

The Childcare Corporation, which operates 15 nurseries across central and southern England, has run weekly YogaBugs sessions as part of its curriculum since 2002. The classes have proved so popular that the nursery chain has sent another 16 staff on the intensive two-day YogaBugs training course.

YogaBugs, founded in 1996 by Fenella Lindsell, is a programme aimed specifically at two-and-a-half- to seven-year-olds. It incorporates traditional yoga and breathing exercises into adventure stories. For example, children may jet into space on a supersonic adventure to rescue a lost spaceman or surf down a moon mountain and hide from dinosaurs before floating back to earth.

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