Importance of Yoga in Kids’ Development

Yoga (meaning union) is the practice of accessing and integrating all aspects of our true nature, body, mind and spirit in the search for inner harmony. Children face many distractions, overstimulation. Yoga and kids is a perfect match. A simple yoga practice has a huge effect on children. Yoga at a young age sculpts the minds and bodies of young people, providing tools that will improve and help children to be balanced, creative and calm people. Yoga can significantly benefit children, and in some aspects, possibly even more than it nourishes adults. These are just some of these benefits:

• Yoga increases coordination

• Yoga improves concentration

• Yoga relieves stress

• Yoga promotes self-expression

As children practice yoga regularly, mastering new poses and creating a flow between your body and your mind helps build confidence.

Yoga promotes a healthy body:

Regular yoga practice helps promote a healthier body through postures that stretch, strengthen and build coordination as well. Yoga for children improves flexibility and increases blood flow, which in turn can help reduce the risk of injury during other physical activity.

Yoga improves concentration and balance:

Part of the positive changes that teachers have found when using yoga in classes is the improvement they see in concentration. Balanced postures teach children that, with a greater focus, they can increase attention naturally, even in children who struggle with different attention challenges. The poses and games focus on balance skills, develop an intrinsic force, evoke a meditative feeling and promote stillness and mental silence.

Yoga teaches self-acceptance:

It gives children the opportunity to learn something that is not competitive, it also teaches children to accept and appreciate them as they are. Once again, with society sending so many messages of inadequacy, yoga teaches children to love themselves.

Stretching and lengthening:

Yoga postures stretch the muscles and, by integrating breathing and movement, the muscles warm up and become more flexible. They can give in when they need it and support sensitive joints in a more functional way.

                                 The beauty of yoga is that children can practice it alone or with a group. It is a useful and inexpensive tool that can have a positive impact on children.