Children's Yoga
Children are naturally flexible, and generally have an innate sense of balance. Beginning ásanas during childhood will help maintain health and flexibility during adult and later years. The open spiritedness of children makes them naturally curious to tryásanas. Often they will want to follow along as parents practice their ásanas. With a little encouragement and education of physical, mental, and spiritual health, children will quickly take to the postures. Explain the benefits of ásana in terms they can understand, according to their age (teenagers can be told of the reduction of acne, improved concentration, and memory, etc.). Parents can help their youngsters attain these postures, making sure they do not strain or hurt themselves.
To make the child’s ásana time more fun, parents can do two things. First, keep the sessions short, allowing for the child’s attention span. Second, suggest that they pretend to be different animals, and give them the animal names of the ásanas (e.g., lion, snake, cat, etc.). They can also pretend to be objects e.g., the bridge.
First, researchers assessed the health status of children from these schools and studied the statistics of the common cold, disorders of the musculoskeletal system and other ailments. After that, the surveyed children was open entry classes in infant schools of yoga .
After six months of regular employment health assessment of children held again. The results were simply stunning. All the children improved significantly posture, increased rates of physical and psychological state. Girls and boys, more recently, a cold from the slightest draft, all these months is much less pain. The children have become more balanced than before, many have begun to learn better. Experts believe that if more people engaged in yoga since childhood, this world would be far superior, it would have been incomparably more healthy and harmonious personality.
The habit of being healthy
First of all, yoga is necessary for the child so that he was healthy and vigorous, learned to build relationships with peers and surroundings.Thanks to yoga hyperactive children become more calm, languid - more nimble and energetic.
Yoga can be a real salvation for children with poor posture - and yet these are the majority. scoliosis became perhaps the most common problem of urban schoolchildren. Children slouch at a desk at school, at home behind a desk and computer monitor, and it is clear that only one parental persuasion "to sit down finally been directly" is absolutely impossible to straighten the child habitually bent back.
Violation bearing a negative impact on the development of the entire musculoskeletal system, the state of which, in turn, depends on the health of the whole organism. Yoga certainly help break this vicious circle. They help to cope with existing problems and prevent the emergence of new, you can instill in a child the priceless habit of being healthy, and that's great, because in front of a little person - a whole life.
In St. Petersburg there are opportunities for children's yoga classes. In specialized centers, there are groups for children from 6up to 15 yearsand high school students involved with adults.
The award for the restlessChildren's yoga program differ significantly from adults, if only because the place as a game. This allows the child to feel in his element, full motion, vivid emotions and constant innovation. Small yoga postures and Yogini perform more than a static form, but in a dynamic sequence. Despite the fact that poses quite quickly replace one another, necessarily draws attention to important details, key elements of each exercise.
In certain positions, these elements carefully worked out - went to the curvature of bones, muscles develop properly, disclosed the chest, and so on. Exercises are given completely different - both simple and most complex. Children love to stand on his hands on his head or shoulders - this is for them favorite poses. They may even be some sort of reward - if the teacher said that the good performance of the basic exercises will allow little to stand on his hands or head, in response to hear the enthusiastic cheers! ". Of course, if the childsomethingwrong with the cervical vertebrae (and the teacher must find out from parents all the problems of their offspring), then there is no load on the neck will not, and on his head, too, no babe will not put.
If there are significant variations in health status, the child and her mother are invited to a consultation, give specific recommendations.Some children need tutoring, our yoga center of such a possibility too. If you attend classes at the Yoga Centrefor somereason does not work, you can organize classes at home - 10-15-minutedaily training a child is enough.
Children very quickly drawn into a class, and without any explanation from the adults, naturally perceive the most subtle moments of exercise. This is not surprising, because the goal of yoga - to return to nature, to the fact that nature was designed and invested in each of us. A child is much closer to nature than adults.