- Offers a way to connect to oneself and others
- Improves focus/concentration
- Improves balance and coordination
- Helps children to calm their bodies
- Increases strength and flexibility, and improves overall physical fitness
- Improves gross motor planning skills
- Improves proximal upper body strength, an underlying component of fine motor skills
- Improves socialization skills and boundary awareness
- Increases sensory integration
- Improves memory and reading retention
- Teaches sequencing (often challenging for learning disabled children)
- Improves speech via improved breathing and alignment
- Promotes creativity
- Coordinates with classroom curriculum to reinforce the learning process
- Offers tools to be taken into the world and used in various situations
