article_snippet.sent: Students hold Students positions during a yoga class at Capri Elementary School in Encinitas, California, in 2012 .
article_snippet.sent: Yoga instructor Kristen McCloskey (right) leads third graders at Olivenhain Pioneer Elementary School in 2012 .
article_snippet.sent: the Encinitas Union School District said the practice is taught in a secular way to promote strength, flexibility and balance.
article_snippet.sent: Yoga is now taught at schools across the country, but the Encinitas Union School District is believed to be the first with full-time yoga teachers at schools across the country.
article_snippet.sent: A three-year grant from the K.P. Jois Foundation, a nonprofit group that promotes Ashtanga yoga, provides twice-weekly, 30-minute classes to the Encinitas Union School District's 5,600 students.
article_snippet.sent: About 30 families have opted out of the classes since About 30 families began in 2011.
highlights_snippet.sent: District said yoga taught in secular way to promote  flexibility and balance .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Yoga taught to district's 5,600 students at twice-weekly, 30-minute classes .