Do you want your child to be healthy, flexible and robust? Would you like your child to know how to calm and relax their minds, to concentrate and focus greater at school? Are you concerned that your child does not like exercising and prefers to devote their spare time playing video games rather than mixing with their peers?
As a parent or carer you naturally want your child to be healthy and fit. Yoga exercises, with their emphasis on gentle stretching workouts, joyful breathing workout routines and creative relaxation methods encourage your child to exercising and really feel excellent about themselves.
If your kid is anxious and not keen to attend a Children's Yoga Class, you can often introduce them to yoga poses at home, so that when they attend their first class they feel extra confident and comfy.
Naturally, if you are showing your kid yoga poses at house, please make sure you practice in a warm environment, ideally practice bare foot on an physical exercise/yoga mat. Make confident there is sufficient space for your child to move with no risk of hurting themselves, preserve an eye on them, in reality practice together as it is a beautiful way to bond and reconnect with your child and most importantly have fun and make certain your child stays relaxed and non-competitive.
3 Standard Yoga Positions for Children to Practice At Property
1. Downward Dog Pose. A lovely pose which gently stretches your child's back, strengthens their heart and brings blood to their head which assists to nourish and calm their mind.
a. Start off on your hands and knees, with your arms straight and your hands underneath your shoulders. Curl your toes below and breathe out as you lift your knees up and straighten your legs. Maintain pressing your heels to the ground, concentrate on bringing your chest as close as achievable towards your legs as you lift your hips back and up. Feel of a dog stretching when they wake up and bark and growl like a dog. Hold the pose for as long as you really feel comfy and maintain breathing deeply.
b. To come out of the pose, slowly come down on your hands and rest in the Kid Pose.
two. Kid/Mouse Pose - ideal to relax your body and calm your nervous method after a difficult day at school, or powerful yoga pose. Think of a mouse as you kneel on the floor with your bottom on your heels. Lower and rest your forehead on the floor, place your arms by your side with palms facing up. Close your eyes relax and breathe quietly. Stay as still as a mouse or if you really feel alot more energetic, you can "squeak" like a mouse.
three. Cobra/Snake Pose. Your kid will appreciate wriggling and hissing like a snake. A awesome workout to release tension, stretch a stiff back and open your heart.
Lie face down on the floor/yoga mat and rest your forehead on the mat. Location your palms flat on the floor, elbows pointing up and hands directly under your shoulders. Take a steady breath in and as you breathe out gently lift your forehead and chest up from the ground. Keep your lower abdomen (belly button region) on the mat and press your hands down into the mat. Preserve seeking straight ahead relax your shoulders and hisssss like a snake. Slowly lower your chest and forehead to the ground. Make a pillow with your hands and rest your cheek on the pillow.
This fundamental yoga sequence consisting of Downward Dog, the Kid Pose and Cobra is perfect to introduce your child to yoga physical exercise. Join in, make up an Adventure Story applying the poses and get pleasure from spending quality fun time together.
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