“Roary-ing” trade as Yoga4 UK launch online website and children’s yoga club!

Award-winning social enterprise, Yoga4UK is celebrating its third birthday this month with the launch of their new interactive website and resources, successfully combining children’s love of screen time with activity.

Founder of Sheffield-based Yoga4, Farah-Naz Khan, herself a mum of two daughters aged 8 and 4 enthuses, “as a parent myself, I know how much today’s children enjoy computers and can be quite demanding when they are after additional screen time. It’s the reality, but we have a choice to be proactive and turn the “electronic babysitter” into something more positive. Our fun new “Roary” club site is named after our lion mascot. The resources provide practical ideas to support children, families and those working with children age 2 to 7 to explore movement and relaxation including posture, activities and certificates to encourage children and reinforce learning using fun and engaging characters.”

She goes on, “as the club develops, the site will become interactive with more resources and free downloads and stories. Children can watch and then practise the yoga positions which reinforces learning many have had in nurseries, classroom lessons and after school clubs. They can do the exercises with their parents too- a great opportunity for family learning and connection. We see how relaxed children open up, so communication and self esteem improve.”

Over the past three years, Farah has brought her passionate dedication to the health benefits of Yoga to many thousands of people, from pregnancy care and nurseries to schools, businesses, even care settings for the elderly- it really is a cradle to grave approach!

Purnima Tanuku, Chief Executive of National Day Nurseries Association comments: “Many of our member nurseries have benefited from Yoga4UK’s training programme, Yoga4 Nurseries. NDNA has been working with Yoga4UK to share more about how yoga can support children in nurseries, and we would like to send our congratulations on their third birthday.”

Farah concludes, “I wanted to create a quality product which brought results and had the potential for change. That’s why I set up as a social enterprise. We are delighted to be celebrating our third successful year and looking forward to taking Roary’s Club and our many other programmes even further afield.”

For more information see www.yoga4uk/roarysclub or contact Farah-Naz Khan on 07988 912825

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