PUPPY YOGA AT RICE LANE

Staff from Rice Lane Primary School and Nursery took part in a unique and relaxing yoga session with 13 puppies.

Staff had the opportunity to cuddle the puppies during and after the yoga session.

Puppy yoga offers a combination of relaxing yoga, enhanced with the serotonin boost from puppy interactions. The experience has many positive benefits:

• Boosts mental health – can make people feel positive and less stressed

• Boosts overall health – can lower blood pressure, which makes the risk of developing serious health problems lower

• Can be a great motivator to introduce yoga into a person’s lifestyle regularly

Staff thoroughly enjoyed the event. Nikki Blain, deputy headteacher at Rice Lane Primary School and Nursey, said: “It just made me smile all afternoon.”

The puppies were provided by Dream Dachshunds and the yoga was led by Faye Hart.