Yoga For Kids

The practice of Yoga for kids is beneficial for children in the same way that it is beneficial for adults. Some people think of childhood as a blissful time of fun and carefree living before we have to take on the pressures of being an adult, but children have their own stresses and pressures in their lives as well. Yoga can be a tool to help them to manage those stresses, keep them in perspective and learn to draw upon their own well of resources from within at an early age.

Kids yoga is one activity in their lives where they will not be competing with their peers, rather they will be learning about their body, gaining great self-awareness, calm, and centeredness and concentration. Of course it can also develop their strength, coordination and flexibility as well.

Because children often have a short attention span, you have to engage them when you teach children’s yoga and keep things moving so that they will enjoy what they are doing. In other words, yoga for children can’t be taught in the same way as for adults.

Yoga kids is a Yoga program that was developed by Marsha Wenig in 1991, to bring the practice of Yoga to a level where kids can benefit from Yoga, but have fun in the process. Yoga Kids offers Yoga Tools for Schools, A YogaKids store offering kid size Yoga gear, mats and other accessories. There is a directory so that you can locate a Yoga Kids studio in your area, a three day Yoga camp, and a kids yoga teacher training certification program.

There are several yoga for children videos/DVDs available so that you can pop them in and let your kids do Yoga at home. Or you can find local kids yoga classes that offer easy yoga for children.

Yoga poses for kids should be fun and not hard. They love to make sounds and pretend like they are the animals or the warrior or the tree. You can change the names of the yoga positions for kids to make them intriguing. Kids yoga poses like the tree pose, or the cat and cow poses are very easy to start with. Do a quick search for some free online yoga positions for children. You will see lots of pictures of children doing yoga and having a good time while training their bodies and minds.

You never know what path a child's life may take, or what path they will choose. Some of the most well known Yoga teachers of today like Baron Baptiste, Bikram Choudhury, B.K.S Iyengar all began taking Yoga as children and it changed the course of their lives. They have taken the Yoga that they learned and shared it with the rest of the world. So, teaching Yoga to children is like a gift that they will enjoy for their whole lives.