Yoga is equally important for the kids. Children have a very flexible body and thus pickup, most difficult postures of yoga with a lot of ease. Yoga helps them to maintain their body & also helps them find balance in their lives.
Kids today, undergo a lot of stress. Right from the time time they enter school, their books, homework, play, pressure to compete on classroom, school & interschool level, meet the expectations of their teachers & parents. Thus, yoga can be a good way to relax their body & mind. Just like their parents, children can find peace in yoga. Infact, my suggestion would be to include the yoga sessions in school curriculum.
Since the kids have a very raw mind and flexibility in body is high, teaching yoga to kids can be very easy. It also helps them develop better body awareness, self-control and co-ordination.
Yoga Poses for Kids:
Parents may start with teaching the basics of yoga to kids, at home itself, if it is not possible to find a good yoga trainer nearby. Lots of TV programs present yoga training sessions as per their program schedules, which may be regularly followed.
Popularity for yoga is increasing in the kids, yoga will also help the child develop healthy habits for life. It will also keep him healthy & relaxed.
For beginners Yoga poses for kids, you may start by asking them to sit or lie down with hands on their bellies. This way they will be able to feel their abdomens move.
Teach them the basis breathing techniques of breath-in & breath-out. This exercise helps kids concentrate on their breathing. Persuade the kids to suck the stomach in on every inhalation and drive it out on every exhalation. Then turn around the movements – so drive the stomach out on the inhalation and suck it in on the exhalation.
This technique may later on be graduated into proper breathing exercises like Kapal-Bharti & Avlom Vilom.
After that teach them you may continue to teach the following poses:
Tadasana – Mountain Pose
Vrikshasana – Tree Pose
Trikonasana – Triangle Pose
Uttanasana – Hand to Foot Pose
Ardha Chandrasana – Half Moon Pose
Halasana – Plough Pose
Viparitakarani – Inverted Leg Stretch Pose
Gomukhasana – Cow Face Pose
Ushtrasana – Camel Pose
Marichyasana - Sage Marichi Twist Pose.
Naukasana – Boat Pose
Matsyasana – Fish Pose
Adho Mukha Svanasana - Downward Facing Dog Pose
Bhujangasana – Cobra Pose
Dhanurasana – Bow Pose
Padmasana - Sitting Posture for Meditation
Once the above is accomplished, the next we may do is to teach them Surya-Namaskar or Sun Salutation. It is the best yoga which engages each part & muscle of your body. As I already mentioned about the flexibility of kids bodies, it is very easy for them to learn all the poses & thus get into routine.
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Yoga is very good for health. Sometimes children don't find it interesting. So for them one can teach yoga with some interesting animal poses like owl pose, bird pose, butterfly pose, cricket pose etc. By such poses, they will learn yoga and also they will find it different and interesting.
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