Teaching YOGA!

[KL]

Wow, you go through most of those poses with the pre-schoolers?!

Any tips on getting them to do it for a period instead of running around?

How much do you need to help them with the pose, and when you help them, would the others keep in the pose?

[Bystre deti]

No other yoga enthusiasts or those interested in this?

I have the Yoga Kids DVDs and they help a lot because my daughter and me follow the instructions on the video. She likes "doing it" because she sees other children on the video doing the poses and she "can make it, too".      It is a nice way to make her exercise, stretch and stay calm.

[hipkids]

In order to keep them engaged- I will ask alot of questions and talk about visualizations in the course of doing the poses. Like, for a tree pose, "what kind of a tree are you- where do you live- do you grow any fruit? I'm a mango tree near a tropical beach- I feel the warm sun on my branches, and breathe in the salty sea air." Its not meditative yoga, per se, until the very end, when we rest on our backs and stretch into a starfish position. I'm sure it would not be easy to do it continuously, pose to pose, for the whole time. Like I said, we'll do a sequence of a few poses, and then do some wiggling and dancing, and then continue. I try to avoid poses that require an extensive amount of balance or where they could potentially fall or get hurt. Sometimes I will move over and adjust their poses, but sometimes I'll say something to the effect of "Okay, can you strreeeeeetch your arms up higher? Can you reeeeach for the sun? " or in warrior poses "Can you beeeend a little more and show how you are a powerful warrior? Can you make a warrior face, but keep your arms and legs still? Warriors can be powerful without hurting others. " Kids LOVE opportunities to make faces.

I highly suggest a book (published by a local Utah author- not sure how widely it's distributed) called "Create a Yoga Practice for Kids" by Yael Calhoun and Matthew R. Calhoun, published by Sunstone Press.

[purplefungi]

I have always felt like such a loser about yoga because I'm about as flexible as a stiff board. I would reallly like for my children to maintain some of their flexibility as they age.

I've always been terrible at physical things. I feel bad because I don't want to pass my feelings on to my little ones.  I'm definitely going to have to try harder!

So the consesus is to start when they are about three for the "hard core" stuff and younger for simpler things.

I love all the pictures of the little kids doing yoga. That is truly beautiful.

[KL]

I highly suggest a book (published by a local Utah author- not sure how widely it's distributed) called "Create a Yoga Practice for Kids" by Yael Calhoun and Matthew R. Calhoun, published by Sunstone Press.

THanks for that, hipkids! Here's the link for anyone interested:
http://www.amazon.com/Create-Yoga-Practice-Kids-Calhoun/dp/0865344906/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239271922&sr=8-1

I find this part of the description interesting:

While many yoga books present individual poses, this book explains how to create a flowing yoga practice that will holds kids’ interest while providing the benefits of yoga.

Hipkids, if you could elaborate on how they do that, that'd be most appreciated!

I have always felt like such a loser about yoga because I'm about as flexible as a stiff board. I would reallly like for my children to maintain some of their flexibility as they age.

My sentiments exactly, purplefungi!

[joyMegha]

I've been into yoga practice for the last 8 yrs. and my flexibility is 'good' -I can say. However post-pregnancy, I've not been able to be regular.

My husband makes it a point not to miss his daily dose of 1-hr practice.
The other day when he started his sun-salutes followed by headstand, my 6-month old son wore a puzzled look on his face. Although it may be a little premature to predict, we hope(and quite sure :-) ) he too will be greatly interested in yoga.

As for the age to begin with, to initiate any serious practice, I believe an age of 5/6 would be good. Because for a regular and serious practice, there are some restrictions on how and when one can begin - like time of the day, meal-times....etc. Too young also may not suit here.

[raisingethan]

thanks for shairing!

[purplefungi]

I've been into yoga practice for the last 8 yrs. and my flexibility is 'good' -I can say. However post-pregnancy, I've not been able to be regular.

My husband makes it a point not to miss his daily dose of 1-hr practice.
The other day when he started his sun-salutes followed by headstand, my 6-month old son wore a puzzled look on his face. Although it may be a little premature to predict, we hope(and quite sure :-) ) he too will be greatly interested in yoga.

As for the age to begin with, to initiate any serious practice, I believe an age of 5/6 would be good. Because for a regular and serious practice, there are some restrictions on how and when one can begin - like time of the day, meal-times....etc. Too young also may not suit here.

That's so neat that your husband does yoga!

[Nikita]

The other night my 17 m o bub was with us in the loungeroom while we were watching a current affairs program. There was a segment about an 85 year old lady teaching yoga.  Later on I saw bub doing downward dog and then stick one leg up in the air.  It suddenly occurred to me she was imitating the lady tryng to get into the head stand position.  So I said "are you doing yoga?"  She pops back up, yells out "YOGA!" and does the position again!

[iLusion]

Wow! yoga for babies!!!

[PY]

I do once a week yoga with my 14 months old baby,we have a japanese intructor..it is been fun, and Catalina is doing great..the music helps her to relax...it is so cool!! We feel like we became closer!!

[PY]

ohh by the way...you can get a book"baby yoga" I read it ,it is wonderful, it teaches you the poses you can do with your baby on differents age.it has pictures and it is easy to understand, I finished to read the book in les than 3 days!!

[KL]

Here are some pics of Felicity in a yoga class earlier this year!









Anyone else with pics to share?

[octaviaorca]

i got this book on a whim recently.  i was athletic but not well coordinated so i'm hoping to help my wee (who is known to run into walls... hee hee.. ooo) get a head start.  it has maybe about 5 poses in all but she begs for it every day and i keep it out on the coffee table so she can go through it any time she wants.  and she too likes to yell 'yoga' (which sounds like yogurt) at the top of her lungs.  there is no flow to it but its a good way to get them interested. 

we'll get more serious in a little while but for now the illustrations are cute and she seems to relate.

http://www.amazon.com/Little-Yoga-Toddlers-First-Book/dp/0805078797/ref=sr_1_24?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244780334&sr=1-24

[nhockaday]

She is so cute, KL, and she does the poses so well!

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