Here at MyYogaTeacher, we believe you’re never too young to start practicing yoga! In recent years, researches have proven that children between the ages of 6-12 who practice yoga regularly have improved mental, emotional, and physical health.
Children in the 21st century don’t “have it easy.” Their “difficult” is simply different, and in some ways worse, than the childhood of older generations.
Between the rise of technology, social media, and their exposure to more and more world negativity, children today are far more exposed to things that negatively impact their mental and emotional health than those that came before them.
This makes teaching kids yoga and meditation practices at an early age all the more important!
Here, we’ll uncover 7 yoga poses for kids and how this form of physical activity benefits them in the present and future!
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One of the primary benefits of yoga for kids is that it calms their often overwhelmed central nervous systems. Concentrating on matching their breath with their movements also improves memory and focus while getting more oxygen rich blood going to their developing brains.
How to do it:
Benefits:
Warms up and stretches the spine, improves posture, calms the central nervous system, decreases anxiety, improves mood.
With many children in the modern world not getting the proper nutrition they need, or too much of all the wrong foods, their little digestive systems are often disrupted, causing constipation and stomach discomfort. Many yoga poses for kids, including this one, help get (and keep) their bowels moving in the right direction!
How to do it:
Benefits:
Stretches out the inner thighs, knees, and hips. Helps to regulate bowel movements and promotes intestinal health. For females, this pose can help alleviate menstrual cramping.
Sometimes kids just need to scream (adults too)! They’re frustrated, angry, overwhelmed, anxious, and all of those emotions need somewhere to go. This pose in particular helps them make some noise while releasing those negative thoughts and feelings they have stored up from their day.
How to do it:
Benefits:
Stretches out the lungs, clears the throat and improves the respiratory tract. Also promotes better immunity, reduces stress and irritability, and relieves anxiety. This kids yoga pose is particularly helpful to calm hyperactive children.
This pose does address digestion, but, just as importantly, it’s fun! Kids need to be allowed to be kids as much and for as long as they can. Bow pose, especially if they choose to rock, is fun, boosts immunity, massages their internal organs, and will make them laugh, which releases much needed endorphins.
How to do it:
Benefits:
This kids yoga pose stretches and strengthens the back, shoulders, chest, and legs - all areas that get tight and stiff during long school days of sitting. It also improves flexibility in the hip flexors and helps to regulate digestion.
Kids may want to do child's pose after this one! We've dropped an image for both poses below. Kids, just like adults, are often more emotional when they're tired. Sometimes it's not physical activity that makes them tired but stress. This pose will help with both physical and mental fatigue.
How to do it:
Benefits:
Increases energy and improves fatigue, stress, and anxiety. This pose may also help manage breathing issues such as asthma. It strengthens the spine, stretches the chest, shoulders, and abdomen.
Children need more than just a few yoga poses to help them stay fit, healthy, and emotionally and mentally at ease. They need a consistent yoga practice. They need tools to help them manage their big emotions and major stresses in a healthy way!
Yoga classes for kids are on the rise for good reason. But schedules are busy and time is often limited for families today.
MyYogaTeacher offers traditional, authentic group and 1-on-1 yoga classes to people of all ages, fitness levels, and backgrounds. Our yoga instructors from India are experts in the field of yoga and guide their students on their yoga journey! Because it is a journey, not just a practice!
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