{"id":6638,"date":"2008-03-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/03\/01\/children-using-yoga-to-help-prepare-for-ny-math-exam\/"},"modified":"2008-03-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-01T12:00:00","slug":"children-using-yoga-to-help-prepare-for-ny-math-exam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/03\/01\/children-using-yoga-to-help-prepare-for-ny-math-exam\/","title":{"rendered":"Children Using Yoga to Help Prepare for NY Math Exam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.9wsyr.com\/news\/local\/story.aspx?content_id=5a846039-59d1-4ba4-9115-e3f35cd8fdb4\">www.9wsyr.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">SYRACUSE, NY, USA, February 28, 2008: New York State&#8217;s math testing for 3rd through 8th graders begins next week. Some classrooms have found a way to calm students nerves, and teachers are using yoga moves to reduce stress.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Cathy Weeks&#8217; class at Wheeler Elementary has her the fifth graders trying to relax by doing asanas, or postures. &#8220;If they&#8217;re frustrated or upset about something, they can calm themselves down,&#8221; the teacher says. When students are caught day dreaming, Ms. Weeks has the whole class do a specific pose to re-focus. To curb sleepiness, she asks the students to get in an energizing downward position.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When students come back in from recess, I can see them starting to do the yoga poses on their own. They&#8217;re starting to realize how it impacts them and how much it helps them re-focus to the point where they want to do it even if not directed to do it,&#8221; says another teacher, Kristine Guptill.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.9wsyr.com SYRACUSE, NY, USA, February 28, 2008: New York State&#8217;s math testing for 3rd through 8th graders begins next week.,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}