The Transpersonal Benefits of Yoga for Children
Yoga can be a valuable resource to assist your child in becoming a citizen of the world!
Yoga Has Profound Benefits for Children
To work with children is like sowing seeds in.” ground. Maybe one day we will see the fruits, or maybe not. But this seed will somehow germinate somewhere, at some point in its journey.
Our world is getting faster and faster, and children are living with the pressure of excessive activities and overload of information, which generates anxiety and stress. Our Schools are dared to do more with less and to be creative in how they reach even the most isolated child. Yoga is a useful and low-cost tool that can have a positive impact on the development of healthy children. With the systematic practice of yoga, they can eliminate or decrease both stress and anxiety.
As they learn specific techniques for this purpose, they feel more filled with love, peace, joy, and lightness.
We can name some of the many challenges the new generation of children is facing:
1. Constant Agitation.
2. Nervousness.
3. Lack of concentration.
4. Lack of desire to study.
5. Excessive anxiety.
6. Learning difficulties.
7. Relationship problems with teachers and colleagues.
Yoga is a positive habit that helps in the growth of all children. Through yoga, children will exercise their breathing, learn to relax, learn how to cope with stress, with conflicting situations, and lack of concentration, problems so evident in various levels of in today’s society. Yoga will help your children on their long journey to balance and control of the physical and psychic domain.
Paramahansa Yogananda, one of the modern Master of Yoga, said: “Set an example, in your own life, of the qualities you want to see highlighted in others.”
In this context, we should teach the child that yoga work goes beyond the practice of postures, relaxation, and breathing techniques.
Yoga for Children for an integrated and healthy development
The goal is to help them discover new ways to live better with themselves and others.
As a result, they are encouraged to practice concentration, patience, and tolerance – qualities so important to the art of living. And with that, they will improve their behavior at home and at school and on their future relationship with others.
The word yoga represents the union of body and mind and soul so that we can awaken the pearls of wisdom, joy and love that permeate our spirit.
We are all calm, loving, and peaceful people, as Gandhi said, but we may just have forgotten our own essence. The yoga work for children consists of several activities and techniques that, without a doubt, would help the children to awaken these pearls that are within them.
The 24 Direct Benefits of Teaching Yoga Practice to Children
1. Development and refinement of abilities and motor coordination skills, improving body flexibility
2. Increased of Body Awareness and respect for their physical limits
3. Posture Improvement and straightening of the spine
4. Massage of internal organs.
5. Improved breathing habits and techniques.
6. Improving the child’s grounding and centeredness skills while staying in the present moment.
7. Developing body awareness & learning to use the body in a beneficial way
8. Stimulation of better blood circulation.
9. Increase of confidence, the expansion of positive self-Image, and the advancement of healthy self-esteem.
10. Significant decrease in the child stress level.
11. Fostering Trust for being part of a healthy and non-competitive group
12. Improvement of the physical senses.
13. Cultivation of mental agility and integrity.
14. Development of a Moral compass
15. Ability to remain calm and relaxed.
16. Yoga teaches how to have discipline
17. Better expansion of attention, concentration, memory, creativity, and imagination.
18. Harmonization and alignment of the personality and the character.
19. Teaches how to practice self-analysis and have self-control
20. Proper channeling of physical energy.
21. The practice supports the child in changing behaviors
22. The teaching of new healthy habits
23. Yoga teaches the art of living in peace with others, providing a better understanding and interface with others.
24. Awakens the child’s Soul Qualities
Yoga techniques are great tools, as they aim to help children to be interested in caring with love and affection for all beings – animals, people, and plants.
All the Yoga techniques themselves already favor self-knowledge and the awaken self-control. But the yoga teacher also should use playful activities, which are carefully planned, supporting the children’s process of self-perception.
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About the Author
Creatrix from Sirius. Fairly Odd Mother of Saints (Bernards). Fish Tank aficionado by day, ninja by night. Liane Buck is also the Editor-in-Chief of OMTimes Magazine, Co-Founder of Humanity Healing International and Humanity Healing Network, and a Board Member of Saint Lazarus Relief Fund.
