• Yoga is non-competitive.
Kids practice being supportive and sensitive because they must slow down, notice and work with their own experience. It is process focused, not goal focused. Everyone can do it and feel good about it.
• Yoga requires staying present.
Kids develop focus, concentration and discipline. They experience how their own mind-body system works and therefore learn how to work better with them selves. Kids learn how to impact their inner state becoming more responsible for their choices and health. They can choose to bring themselves into balance with breathing and non-thinking or positive thinking.
• Yoga is practical, low cost preventative medicine
Kids learn techniques for balancing and restoring themselves
• Yoga serves as the counter pose to the challenges of modern life
Kids shift the stress response in their autonomic nervous systems and move from fight or flight to creativity and enjoyment.
• Yoga creates: balance, integration, flexibility, quiet
Kids slow down brain waves, align body, breath and mind and become present. They also wring out tensions and toxins. They feel better, are more relaxed and can focus and participate fully in the learning process.
• Yoga expands and enriches awareness and the experience of our inner life.
Kids are less reactive, more self-aware and make better choices.
• Yoga is a tool we can use to navigate and fulfill our own destiny
Kids develop a greater sense of SELF; they are more creative, communicative and compassionate.
• Yoga is not an intellectual process; it is experiential and social
Kids feel the difference in themselves and the group after doing yoga. They personally experience coherence and calm and have given it to themselves.
Yoga’s impact on Children
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Results of studies addressing ADD / ADHD:
• Decreased hyperactivity and impulsivity
• Increased self control
• Increased attention span
• Reduced anxiety, therefore higher IQ scores; improved complex learning skills
• Increased spatial memory
Results of studies addressing Physical Fitness and Nutrition:
• Decreased resting heart rate
• Increased motor skills performance
• Increased pulmonary function and exercise capacity
• Increased body / self image satisfaction
• Increased muscular fitness
• Improved body weight, density, cardiovascular endurance, anaerobic power
• Significant improvement for bronchial asthmatics (some ceasing of medication)
• Decreased substance abuse by strengthening mental resolve, decreasing anxiety
• Improved posture
Results of studies addressing academic performance:
• Improved decision making skills
• Increased attention span
• Improved communication skills
• Increased IQ and social adaptation
• Increased academic achievement
• Decreased hyperactivity and impulsivity
• Increased self control
• Increased attention span
• Reduced anxiety, therefore higher IQ scores; improved complex learning skills
• Increased spatial memory
Results of studies addressing Physical Fitness and Nutrition:
• Decreased resting heart rate
• Increased motor skills performance
• Increased pulmonary function and exercise capacity
• Increased body / self image satisfaction
• Increased muscular fitness
• Improved body weight, density, cardiovascular endurance, anaerobic power
• Significant improvement for bronchial asthmatics (some ceasing of medication)
• Decreased substance abuse by strengthening mental resolve, decreasing anxiety
• Improved posture
Results of studies addressing academic performance:
• Improved decision making skills
• Increased attention span
• Improved communication skills
• Increased IQ and social adaptation
• Increased academic achievement
Why Yoga is Necessary for Our Kids?
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Our children live in a hurry-up world of busy parents, school pressures, incessant lessons, video games, malls, and competitive sports. We usually don't think of these influences as stressful for our kids, but often they are. The bustling pace of our children's lives can have a profound effect on their innate joy-and usually not for the better.
I have found that yoga can help counter these pressures. When children learn techniques for self-health, relaxation, and inner fulfillment, they can navigate life's challenges with a little more ease. Yoga at an early age encourages self-esteem and body awareness with a physical activity that's noncompetitive. Fostering cooperation and compassion-instead of opposition-is a great gift to give our children.
Children derive enormous benefits from yoga. Physically, it enhances their flexibility, strength, coordination, and body awareness. In addition, their concentration and sense of calmness and relaxation improves. Doing yoga, children exercise, play, connect more deeply with the inner self, and develop an intimate relationship with the natural world that surrounds them. Yoga brings that marvelous inner light that all children have to the surface.
When yogis developed the asanas many thousands of years ago, they still lived close to the natural world and used animals and plants for inspiration-the sting of a scorpion, the grace of a swan, the grounded stature of a tree. When children imitate the movements and sounds of nature, they have a chance to get inside another being and imagine taking on its qualities. When they assume the pose of the lion (Simhasana) for example, they experience not only the power and behavior of the lion, but also their own sense of power: when to be aggressive, when to retreat. The physical movements introduce kids to yoga's true meaning: union, expression, and honor for oneself and one's part in the delicate web of life.
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