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Breathing Through Big Emotions: Connecting Yoga to SEL
Before educators can effectively teach social-emotional learning, they need access to their own emotional resources. When stress is constant, it becomes harder to pause, reflect, and respond with intention. Without support, many educators operate in survival mode, doing their best while feeling depleted. Honoring adult emotional needs creates the conditions for more authentic modeling of SEL in the classroom and beyond.
How Educators Can Model SEL Through Yoga
Children learn social-emotional skills by watching adults. When educators pause, breathe, and regulate their emotions, students witness SEL in action. Yoga is a powerful tool to help you cultivate this calm awareness. Through regular practice, you develop the ability to respond thoughtfully rather than react impulsively, creating a classroom environment grounded in patience and understanding.
Yoga and Social-Emotional Learning
There are so many reasons why yoga and social-emotional learning (SEL) make sense for educators. Educators are not only responsible for teaching a variety of subjects, but, they also serve as role models for emotional intelligence, resilience, and self-regulation. When educators cultivate their own self-awareness, emotional regulation, and mindfulness, they create more positive and emotionally supportive learning environments.