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5 Benefits of Kids Yoga

Yoga is Playful and Helps Kids

Yoga is Playful and Helps Kids in So Many Ways

Guest Post by Susan White

(Note from Aruna:  This week I’ve been attending to some family matters as well as my yoga classes and Teacher Training so I hope you enjoy this guest post, which may be especially useful for those marketing their kids yoga classes. I’ll be back next week with some new stories and games.)

This post is written by Susan White, who writes on the topic of Radiologist Technician Schools . She welcomes your comments at her email id: [email protected] .

We all know that yoga has benefits beyond the physical alone and that if you’re a yoga enthusiast, you’re likely to be in the fittest of both physical and mental health. But how many of us think of the benefits that this ancient eastern art holds for kids? When it comes to health and fitness for children, we focus on a sport and outdoor play rather than think of exercising at the gym or following a workout routine. But another form of exercise that offers them various advantages is yoga, a fact that is not as well known as it should be. Yoga helps children by:

  1. Enhancing concentration: When your child gets used to the asanas or postures of yoga, they automatically improve their concentration skills. Ancient sages used yoga as a form of meditation, and their powers of concentration are legendary. Your child learns how to sit still in one place and focus on what’s important as opposed to letting their mind wander and be distracted easily. This helps them in their lessons and at school, boosts their attention span and improves their grades.
  2. Increasing flexibility and balance: Yoga helps improve flexibility and balance and tones their muscles too. It makes them stronger and less likely to suffer sprains and fractures through accidental falls.
  3. Improving general well-being: Kids who practice yoga regularly feel good about themselves and are healthier and happier than those who don’t. They feel both mentally and physically rejuvenated after a yoga session and this improves their mental and physical health.
  4. Boosting confidence: When your child is able to display great agility and flexibility, it does wonders for their confidence. Their improved performance at school also helps boost their popularity and their self assurance. They become more poised and start to believe in their abilities. This feeling provides them with the adrenaline they need to achieve success in all their endeavors.
  5. Relaxing their minds: Even kids are subject to a great deal of stress these days because of their workload at school and the high expectations that their parents have for them. They are pushed to be achievers at every single point of their lives, and when they fail, they take it to heart and become depressed. Yoga helps them relax and de-stress when they feel upset or depressed. It soothes their frayed minds and helps them get back to a normal mental state.

Children are more flexible and agile than adults, so the earlier you get kids started on to yoga, the more benefits they gain.

Find Out More About Kids Yoga through Teacher Training

Become a Kids Yoga Teacher

Did you  know Young Yoga Masters offers kids yoga teacher training?  As a Registered Children’s Yoga School with Yoga Alliance, you can take weekend trainings or one of the summer certifications (that’s the whole training in 10 days).  Find out more here.

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  • Yoga Literacy with the Yoga Alphabet (16 Hour Certificate)
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  • All Modules = 95 Hour Certificate

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  1. Shapeshifter Yoga Review says

    October 7, 2013 at 8:25 pm

    From what I know, there’s so much more to yoga that men and women fail to understand. Many people associate sports with jogging, lifting weights, killer video workouts and gyms but not yoga. Yoga does improve mental and physical health and would be greatly beneficial to kids. In fact, all schools should incorporate yoga in the the gym or classroom to help with stress, concentration, etc. The biggest challenge is trying to get younger kids to stay in one position/place when meditating. So I would think different types of yoga will have to be incorporated for different age levels. Younger children may not take to meditation that well so it’s probably better to incorporate different pose exercises since youngsters find it hard to let energy go to waste.

    • Aruna Kathy Humphrys says

      October 7, 2013 at 9:30 pm

      You may be surprised to find out that many kids do take to meditation!

      We cover a number of techniques in our kids yoga teacher training that work really well.

      It definitely helps to do a number of different yoga poses before to help them have a more balanced energy.

      Thanks for the comment.

  2. Monique says

    August 21, 2010 at 10:03 pm

    need to find a yoga school or classes for my son, somewhere in the city of downey, ca or soroundding city’s plz help me email me if you have anything [email protected]

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