Fourth-graders don’t sit on tiny desk chairs in Liberty Looney’s class. Instead, they hop onto pink, blue and green stability balls. The thick, plastic contraptions, also known as exercise or yoga ...

When you walk into Emilie Mena's classroom, you may think it's a yoga studio at first. But it's not. It’s a typical elementary school classroom with desks, a white board and books. However, instead of ...

Every once in a while they solve equations by tossing around a beach ball - covered not by sand but with basic addition problems - and the kids do the math based on where the ball bounces, thumbs ...

ALLENDALE TOWNSHIP -- Talk about being on the ball. Grand Valley State University student Trish Blake thought her professor was nuts when he told students they could sit on exercise balls instead of ...

It’s the era of students in motion. Gone are the days when they had to sit still until gym class or recess. Enter some K-12 classrooms across the country and you’ll find exercise balls instead of ...

We spend so much time on our chairs that sitting is now considered "the new smoking" by health specialists. Because sitting could be inevitable in many cases, why not look for alternatives? After ...