Yoga for Children

When presented in the language of the child can learn yoga helps fight against the charge of youth in a world of almost.Our children live in a world pressed busy parents, school pressures, incessant lessons, video games, shopping and professional sports.
Normally I'm not thinking of these negative influences our children, but often. The frantic pace of our children can have a profound effect on their innate joy, and generally have not benefited.

I found that yoga helps the pressure. As children learn self-control techniques for health, relaxation and inner fulfillment, they can navigate life's challenges with a little more ease. Yoga promotes early self-esteem and body awareness of physical activity of a non-compete. To foster cooperation and compassion instead of the opposition gets a great gift for our children.

Children acquire enormous benefits of yoga. Physically, improve your flexibility, strength, coordination and body awareness. In addition, it improves concentration and a sense of calm and relaxation. Yoga, children love games, connect with the deep inner being and develop an intimate relationship with the natural world around them. Yoga brings the beautiful inner light that all children on the surface.

When yogis developed asanas thousands of years, still lived close to nature and animals and plants used for inspiration, the sting of a scorpion, the grace of a swan, the status of a tree to earth. When children imitate the movements and sounds of nature have the possibility of another being and adjust their qualities. After resuming the position of the lion (Simhasana), for example, that not only the power and behavior of lions, but also their own sense of the experience of power: when aggressive and when to withdraw. The physical movements introduce kids to yoga's true meaning: union, expression, and honor for oneself and one's part in the delicate web of life.

A child Way
Yoga with children offers many opportunities to share knowledge and share good times and the basis of a permanent practice to continue. Just a little flexibility on the part of adults, because, as I quickly realized when I started teaching preschool practice, yoga, yoga for children is very different from that of adults.

Six years ago I had my first experience in teaching yoga to children in a local Montessori school. I looked to the future with confidence, after all the yoga classes for adults for some time I have two small children of my own education, creative writing and had several years in different schools, Los Angeles. But after two classes with a group of 3 to 6 years, I had to think hard about my approach. I had to learn (the same practice, preach in years) to my program and my expectations of what yoga is and what is not.

When I was in the innate intelligence of the child and in accordance with the way he guides me, she began teaching before they co-create our lessons began. Yoga used as a springboard for many other areas of adaptation of animals to explore and production tools and play music, stories, drawings and asanas our time together a truly interdisciplinary approach to learning. Together we wove stories with our bodies and minds in a flow that could only happen in child's play.
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