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Yoga for Children and Kids
By Sheila Easton
Children are exposed to a lot of stress factors
nowadays.
There is homework that they do daily...
the competition with other children...
TV and computer games...
and even over-scheduling.
And just like adults these kids need something relaxing to turn into and that
could be: Yoga.
Yoga for kids helps then develop better body awareness, it also delivers to them
a total self control, flexibility and coordination.
All of these they could carry not just on their class but this exercises can
help them with their daily routines.
Yoga for kids has shown to help children who are hyper active to tone down and
to brighten up those attention deficit ones. Children today crave movement and
sensory motor stimuli that can help then balance out their inner souls flow.
Yoga for kids helps them channel out this impulses in a positive way.
The main Yoga for kids poses that seem to work perfectly with kids are the
warrior pose and the tree pose. These two yoga for kids poses helps instill in
them calm, confidence and balance.
The trick to get them to do Yoga for kids is to go beyond just doing the proper
poses, you should have to get them think about what the real posture means.
Let them think that they are really what the poses are symbolizing, let them be
the postures – strong and confident like a warrior.
Yoga for kids with partners is also a good way to build up trust with you
children. It develops their team skills and fosters a closer bonding.
Some kids when it comes to relaxation have a big trouble closing their eyes and
having them focus on their exercises. One thing that encourages a child to relax
is visualization. Let them think of something that they really like and let them
imagine being like these things.
You may also have them focus out on belly breathing first and have them listen
to soothing and relaxing music.
Then ask them to imagine their favorite spot in the house or let them think that
they are in outer space floating, or let them visualize that they are at the
beach, playing their favorite sport or doing the best activity that they like.
Sometimes for boys letting them think of a favorite girlfriend helps them relax,
but this is sometimes hard to do because they become shy and intolerable when
this kind of issues are discussed. Just stick to the visualization thing if this
technique is quite complicated for you.
Every day at the end of each relaxation exercises, encourage the children to
share their own experiences. Ask them to tell to the group what it was like to
be in their visualized surroundings. Ask them also to share what place have they
imagined they where in.
Another approach is to create a guided imagination by telling them a story with
a calming theme of some sort.
As you know children have the most active imagination, they imagine all sorts of
things. And at this point of imagination it makes them feel calm. So when doing
yoga for kids let them think that they are walking on a green pasture.
You can even let them think that they are butterflies in a beautiful garden. The
main idea in here is to instill a sense of peace and feeling of oneness with
nature.
Yoga for kids should be taught more often and in different places. It is
important to teach children the meaning of union of mind, body and spirit.
There is such a wealth of knowledge we can offer our children with the practice
of Yoga.
About the Author:
It doesn't matter if you've never exercised a day in
your life, or if you are the most fit person in the
world... Free information online - on every "style" of
Yoga - is pretty hard to come across. The author got
tired of looking and searching all over the place, so he
decided to create a free Yoga Information Portal at:
http://www.free-yoga-online.info
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