Yoga for Children: De-Stress for Success

Yoga for Children: De-Stress for Success - By: temp, Posted on: 2008-06-01

If you're a parent or teacher who has been looking for a fun, healthy and educational activity to do with kids, why not try yoga for children or a kids yoga DVD? Like adults, children live in a busy, schedule-driven world that is alive with stimulants and curiosities that affect them in a number of ways as they grow. Because of this, young children are excellent candidates for yoga practice, be it at home or for a few minutes each day in the classroom.

Children are typically delighted by simple yoga exercises that simulate animal-like motions and poses. Kids love to playfully roar like lions, stretch like dogs, or stand like graceful flamingos. Yoga for children involves movements like clapping like a seal, moving arms and legs in sync like a locomotive, or mimicking the fluid motion of a yo-yo. As they complete each new pose, they'll gain a new sense of accomplishment and self confidence.

Studies show that kids learn through movement and by exploring their world hands on. A child's learning environment extends way beyond the classroom, and whenever they are in a learning situation, knowledge is best absorbed when they are focused and calm. This is what yoga for children seeks to accomplish. Yoga is so seamlessly integrated into education that more and more pre- and elementary schools are incorporating it into their curricula.

Teachers, learning professionals and parents everywhere are taking kids yoga teacher training from institutions like YogaKids, so they can bring these wonderful techniques into schools and homes. Even outside of exercise and play, teachers find that using yoga in the classroom--even if just as a five minute desk break between lessons--helps kids relax, get their cramps out, and bring their minds back to the focal point. Teachers are also having kids do yoga at their desks before tests to reduce anxiety.

Yoga for children is different from adult yoga in that it is designed to help kids gain a sense of concentration early on in life; it improves flexibility, coordination, strength; and ultimately makes them feel like they're a part of their natural world. Beginning yoga early will help kids build body awareness and self respect. Yoga can help young people look beyond themselves as it fosters a way of living and interacting with compassion and consideration.

Whether it is practiced indoors, outdoors, alone or with family, yoga is one of the most creative and entertaining ways to introduce the joy of exercise and the wonder of life to youth. A healthy lifestyle helps kids to feel their best and cultivate those healthy habits as they grow. Yoga helps children to understand their minds, bodies and emotions, which helps them build an inner confidence that will last through the years. Yoga empowers children, making them feel good about their bodies and the choices they make.

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Written by Kacy Suther. Learn more about yoga for children with a kids yoga dvd. Offers kids yoga teacher training, yoga poses for kids, more at yogakids.com .

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