A well-planned yoga class for kids will be able to teach them in an engaging way. A typical kids’ yoga class includes songs, games, yoga poses and much more.
A creatively sequenced class keeps kids involved and teaches them to release stress, listen, have fun doing exercise, and work as a group.
If you’re on the fence about sending your toddler to yoga class, these are five health benefits of yoga for kids you should consider:
Yoga Improves Balance: Little yogis struggle very much with balance poses, like Tree Pose. This is in part because they are learning the skill of proprioception, which means they are learning to know where their body is in space.Improving balance is going to help with activities like walking, running, and learning to ride a bike.
Yoga Improves Core Strength: A flowing sequence like a Sun Salutation (which in my schooling on Kids yoga, we call Sergeant Salutations, making it a call and response game) helps kids to increase core muscle strength. Holding Plank Pose without a belly dip is hard for all of us, especially the younger yogis. Little yogis with stronger cores are going to develop better posture as they grow and be more balanced in activities.
Yoga Encourages Growth of the Brain: Anytime we try to learn and do something new, whether that be yoga or ballet, our brain makes new neuronal connections. That goes for adults too. Think about all the new things a child learns in yoga class; poses, listening skills, new yoga terms (possibly in Sanskrit), meditation, or breathing exercises. That’s a lot of new connections.
Yoga Helps Kids Calm and Center Themselves: We all get upset. Yoga can teach little yogis how to deal with these tense moments off the mat by teaching them what a kids yoga meditation is all about, or how to breathe deeply. After we do a pranayama breathing activity or a meditation, I always ask my students how and when they can incorporate this at home. Those reasons are usually spot on or very funny because of how interesting they are.
Yoga Improves Happiness: Yes, your kids will be happy when they are in yoga class. What I am suggesting is that yoga improves happiness overall. Or more correctly, it has been proven to decrease depressive tendencies.
If you’re interested in taking your kids to a yoga class, look for classes like “family yoga” at your nearby spot. If teaching kids yoga is your calling in life, look for a program; a lot of training happens throughout a 3-day weekend, and you don’t have to be a registered yoga teacher to get trained in yoga for children
Do you have any experience practicing yoga with kids? Tell us about your experiences in the comments section below.
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