Yoga and Willful Embodiment: a New Direction for Improving Education

Self-regulation—the capacity to modulate attention and emotion—is a robust predictor of important outcomes across the life span. Contemplative practices, such as yoga and mindfulness, have been implemented in schools and shown to improve self-regulation. For the most part, studies incorporating contemplative practices have used quantitative methodologies aimed at generating measurable results on self-regulation. There is limited literature on...