9 Best Yoga Poses for Boosting Confidence in Children

Yoga and mindfulness are integral to nurturing happy, healthy children for many reasons. One of the benefits of yoga is its powerful ability to help boost our confidence.

Through heart opening yoga poses, energizing postures, and affirmations, we are able to build self-esteem, self-love, and self-confidence with a routine yoga practice.

If you want to help build self-esteem in your children or students, try these nine empowering yoga poses for boosting confidence - they’re some of our favorites!

1. Star Pose

Practice Star yoga pose and beatboxing! Our original “I’m a Star” song pairs a power pose like Star Pose with positive affirmations to encourage confidence and self-awareness. The kid-friendly yoga pose includes variations like side bends, twists and single leg balancing.

2. Mountain Pose

Mountain Pose is considered “home” in yoga. It helps us center and focus, and is a great place to start one of these yoga poses for stress relief.

To find calm and build self-esteem, practice Mountain Pose while singing along to our Foundation song — learning how to ground down and reach tall! You can also pair it with many of these positive affirmations for kids to support a healthy inner dialogue.

3. Warrior Pose

Use Warrior yoga poses to strengthen, build focus, and foster confidence! Often times, stress and tension create a blockage in building self-esteem, and warrior helps us combat some of that tension while instilling self-trust.

We are strong. We are capable. We are WARRIORS!

4. Tree Pose

Practice balancing in Tree Pose! Balancing poses build our sense of proprioception (where we are in space) and fires up our core, helping us feel confident and empowered. It also strengthens our standing leg and lengthens our spine, helping us stand tall and strong.

5. High Lunge Yoga

Practice High Lunge, a power pose we love for building strength and balance. Celebrate individuality with our “Unicorn” song and let your rainbow light shine! Find more yoga poses that help your inner-light shine in our Light Adventure.

6. Boat Pose

Feel proud of yourself as you row, row, row your boat to a new adventure! “Boats” is one of our most popular kids yoga videos on our YouTube channel - and for good reason. Kids love combining a traditional children’s sing along song with fun rowing movements that alternate in pace.

In Boat Pose we can use the discussion of potential boats to allow children to offer up new ideas and support their creativity.

7. Chair Pose

This fierce yoga pose is a confidence-building favorite! We use Chair Pose to energize, strengthen, and help children recognize their fierceness. If you want to make chair pose feel extra powerful, combine it with an empowering pose like Star Pose to maximize the benefits.

Fire up like a rocket ship and FLY! If your little ones are into outer space, use this free Space Yoga STEM lesson guide to get them singing and stretching.

8. Bridge Pose

Bridge pose is so much fun! It offers various opportunities to combine a grounding, confidence-boosting floor pose with creative sing along songs, imaginative settings, and other bits of movement.

We pair bridge yoga pose with bicycle legs for some transportation themed yoga. Our kids love it! So much so that we ended up creating a 15 minute Transportation Yoga video series on our app to use as both an educational and movement resource.

9. Humble Warrior Pose

It is common to assume that confidence building yoga postures come from poses that are standing or back bends, but yoga poses that help us fold and focus inward can also work wonders for self-esteem.

We love Humble Warrior pose for its ability to help us build proprioception and self-awareness. This forward folding pose takes a different approach to heart opening and creates space for introspection and grounding so that we can feel empowered in our uniqueness.

It is a powerful pose for teachers too — something we teach in our yoga trainings is how to feel grounded and empowered to use your unique voice and be heard.

We hope you love these confidence boosting yoga poses as much as we do! When combining music, story songs and sing alongs, and tidbits of digestible information, we offer children the opportunity to boost their self-esteem, create a yoga practice of their own, and continue learning.

Save this article for later and don’t forget to download the Yo Re Mi app for children’s mindfulness and musical yoga videos.

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