Benefits for Kids

Benefits for Kids

  • Offers a way to connect to oneself and others
  • Improves focus/concentration
  • Improves balance and coordination
  • Helps children to calm their bodies
  • Increases strength and flexibility, and improves overall physical fitness
  • Improves gross motor planning skills
  • Improves proximal upper body strength, an underlying component of fine motor skills
  • Improves socialization skills and boundary awareness
  • Increases sensory integration
  • Improves memory and reading retention
  • Teaches sequencing (often challenging for learning disabled children)
  • Improves speech via improved breathing and alignment
  • Promotes creativity
  • Coordinates with classroom curriculum to reinforce the learning process
  • Offers tools to be taken into the world and used in various situations