The Positive Effects of Yoga for Children and School Kids
Yoga is an ancient science and philosophy that has been practiced for thousands of years. The popularity of Childrens’ Yoga is increasing everyday. It can be found in after school and lunch time programs, special education classes, pre-schools, daycares, yoga centers and dance studios. Yoga for children combines dynamic movements, postures, breathing exercises and meditations of Kundalini yoga and Hatha yoga into an integrated and holistic program of physical fitness, education and social and self-awareness.
Plenty of foundations and institutes have come up with a wide range of programs to empower the youth, schoolteachers, parents, yoga teachers, and other qualified individuals with the peacemaking and yoga skills. With the help of various educational media and training programs, these foundations work towards their goal of ensuring social, emotional as well as physical well being of the humanity. Once the peace of mind is restored, the life would become a lot simpler and uncomplicated.
Benefits of Yoga For Children:
Yoga, adapted for pre-school children, develops body awareness, language, good listening skills, cooperation and powers of observation. It teaches pre-school children about nature, their environment and inspires their imaginations. It prepares them for breathing techniques used in yoga. They learn by playing, singing, moving and imitating. This is an ideal time for children to begin a yoga practice.
Yoga for children is known for enhancing the power of imagination and self-expression as it cleans the mind from all irrelevant thoughts. Yoga controls and directs the mind to a more concentrated direction. It teaches kids to be less dependent on others and more self-disciplined. It also creates a sense of confidence by learning them work together in order to reach their respective objectives. Yoga helps to strengthen the family ties as different generations take part in Yoga session together.
Yoga with school aged children balances quiet and active poses with game playing, singing, storytelling, drawing, simple breath meditations and rest. Children can easily follow the teacher’s instructions by learning the names of different body parts, their locations and function. As children learn the names of the postures and movements they develop a yoga vocabulary. They can use their yoga poses to play games, take on the qualities of different animals or use their imaginations to make up stories about animals on a farm, climbing a mountain or trekking through a jungle. They can each assume the role of leader and teach their classmates a yoga posture or breathing exercise. Their yoga improves very quickly.
