Today we live an accelerated present . Running from top to bottom in a city that never sleeps. Our shoulders tense and we forget to breathe. Even in dreams, we run. The problems make them solid and as real as a wall. The traffic to get to the school or the knder of our children is our daily bread. And many times, we live more in the car than in the house. In the past or in the future than in today .
When was the last time you walked in the park with your son? Do you remember when you sat down to admire a sunset in the company of your family? Or simply and simply, when were a few minutes of loving company given away, without thinking of anything other than being together, breathing and living the same moment?
It is normal. The pace of life seems unstoppable. And as adults we suffer from it: gastritis, colitis, obesity, migraine. The impressive thing is that more and more, children come to consultation with symptoms of an imbalance in mind, body and spirit . Both because they live it in their own flesh at school or on the way to it, or, because in some way or another, they learn it from us. Remember that parents are the greatest teachers of children. As children, they see us as heroes and heroes. Of course they want to be like us! And here comes a necessary question, what are we teaching you by example? Because words come and go, but our actions are marked in the conscious and unconscious memory of our children: our future.
Yoga is an option to give us a break and learn to live the present with clarity and love . It is an ancient science that promotes health and well-being through the balance of body, mind and spirit .
And in children, it offers even more benefits. With yoga, we help children develop skills not only psychomotor, but social and emotional . The full attention offered by the practice of yoga, provides our human puppy with the tools to face problems with creativity and heart, fostering compassion, love and respect for life . Awesome! Don't you think?
Yoga can be practiced at all stages of life : before birth, from the first months of age and from then on! It is worth mentioning that not all instructors are trained to give yoga to pregnant women, babies and children. It is different in each age and we must be careful when choosing them.
For example, baby yoga is done together with the mother, sharing postures and massaging our little ones. Once our child walks, games, songs and stories can be included to perform each of the yoga poses. In this way, well-being goes hand in hand with fun and imagination. What better medicine than laughter, Charly Chaplin would say! In yoga classes for children, kids travel through their minds to jungles in Africa, to the depths of the ocean or to a farm; they participate in concentration games, intuition and values, they give love meditations, they massage each other and sing songs.
Each posture, better known as asana, will specifically benefit circulation, digestion, concentration or better body alignment, among other things, preventing diseases in an integral way.
Some benefits of yoga for children are:
- Improve strength and flexibility
- It helps to recognize and appreciate your own feelings and those of others
- Identify body parts and understand how it works as a whole
- Increase trust and love for oneself and others, building a positive self-image
- Feed creativity
- It teaches them to breathe with awareness
- Promotes cooperation and teamwork
- It teaches them to relax and reduce stress
- It helps to concentrate better and for longer
- Fortifies all body systems: skeletal, nervous, circulatory, digestive, respiratory, hormonal and muscular
- Foster compassion, generosity and respect
- Strengthens coordination and balance
- They learn to give an intention to each activity of their day and live the present
- It makes them feel good about themselves, with others and with their surroundings
- It offers tools to observe reality as it is, generating a creative and non-reactive response
- Balances body-mind-spirit
- He leads them towards inner peace
- And above all, have fun!
For all this and more, yoga is an excellent choice for our children.
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Yoga for children, helping to develop social and emotional skills
