Ask Your School About Yoga | Free Parent Letter Template Today
How to request a yoga program at your child's Australian school, who to approach, what schools need to know, and a free parent letter template to send.
Help parents introduce Yoga & Wellbeing programs to their child’s school. Built for Shelby Yoga users who need a clear, practical and low-friction way to choose the right yoga and wellbeing pathway.
Parent advocacy page
This page gives parents a simple way to ask their school about bringing practical Yoga & Wellbeing programs to students.
What parents can send
Provide a short email template, benefits summary, program overview and link to the school program pack.
CTA path
Download the parent letter, share the school programs page, or invite the school to request a quote.
Frequently asked questions
Do kids need yoga experience?
No. Sessions are beginner-friendly and can be adapted for age, confidence, mobility and sensory needs.
Is kids yoga the same as adult yoga?
No. Children's yoga should be age-appropriate, playful, practical and simple. Younger children need more movement, imagination and co-regulation; older children and teens can handle more structured breathwork, mobility and reflection.
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How to ask your school about yoga, and what to say when they hesitate
Approach the wellbeing coordinator or PDHPE lead rather than the front office, frame yoga as a curriculum-aligned movement program rather than an extracurricular, and offer to forward a provider's outcome map and quote. A parent letter template and free teacher taster are available to make the first conversation easy.
Parents who ask their school about yoga usually get a warm response and then nothing. That is not resistance, it is a school with a full timetable and no obvious owner for the idea.
The fix is to give the idea an owner and a document. Wellbeing coordinators and PDHPE leads have budget lines and curriculum responsibility; front offices don't. And a one-page outcome map showing which syllabus strands a program covers turns a nice suggestion into something an executive can approve at a Monday meeting.
The objection you're most likely to hear is time, the timetable is full. The counter is that yoga can sit inside the school's mandated physical activity allocation rather than beside it, so it displaces nothing. The second objection is cost, and the honest answer is that per-student pricing across a term block is usually comparable to a single incursion.
We provide a parent letter template you can adapt, and schools can book a free teacher taster so staff experience a session before any money is committed.
Frequently asked questions
Who should I actually speak to?
The wellbeing coordinator, PDHPE coordinator, or an assistant principal with wellbeing in their portfolio. If you're not sure, the P&C usually knows who holds it.
What if the school says the timetable is full?
Ask whether it could sit inside the existing physical activity allocation. A movement-based program can be delivered as the PDHPE lesson rather than in addition to it.
Can the P&C fund it?
Often, yes, P&C funding is a common route for a first term block, after which schools frequently pick it up in their own wellbeing budget.
Is there anything I can hand them?
Yes. Download the parent letter template, and point them at the curriculum alignment page so they can see the syllabus mapping without needing to call us first.
What if my school won't run it?
Family and at-home programs cover the same breathing and movement skills. Many parents start there and revisit the school conversation the following year.