Empower and Transform your Children with Yoga

In an ever-changing world, every stage of a child’s life is froth with immense pressure that builds up a varying degree of stress. Today’s children are living in arguably one of the most stressful times. Being caught in a whirlpool of anxiety, peer pressure, unhealthy competition, innumerable distractions, and temptations. Everything affects their physical and mental health.

Children and parents are equally facing the challenge of how to manage stress and foster a healthy and comprehensive lifestyle. Yoga, an ancient science envisaged by sages in India has a very powerful and positive impact on children and adults alike. It might turn out to be the one solution for the myriad problems faced by kids and teenagers.

Empower and transform your children with Yoga.

The greatest gift to give to your child is a key to a healthy mind and body. As a parent, our primary responsibility is to help our children grow up as healthy, happy and positive individuals. Children should be strong enough to face the changing weather of life. The first lesson a child needs to learn is the importance of healthy living.

Yoga for Children is a wonderful tool to empower your child both physically and mentally. Yoga is one science that helps synchronize the mind, body, and soul and this synchronization automatically takes away the mental pressure, increases stamina, helps alleviate stress and eliminates the negativity from the mind.

Here’s how yoga enriches your child

Takes off the pressure – Pranayam or breathing exercise in yoga makes the child both physically and mentally strong and when they find inner fulfillment or feel satiated from within, meeting the challenges of life does not make them stressful and helps them develop a positive outlook.

Reduces Stress – Yoga asanas and breathing techniques help mind-body coordination and is highly relaxing. It completely relieves stress and anxiety.

Boosts Self-Esteem and Confidence – Yoga encourages a non-competitive yogic exercise. A strong mind and a strong body naturally boost the confidence of the child.

Teamwork and Care – Yoga for children is designed to encourage teamwork and partner exercise which helps build a healthy attitude and a positive personality, naturally erasing all conflicts and hostility.

Improves Overall physical and mental Health – Yoga asanas enhance flexibility, physical strength, mind-body coordination, and body awareness.

Reduces Restlessness – A restless mind can be the worst enemy because it plays havoc on the ability to focus, eventually retarding the overall performance in all fields. Yoga and meditation relax the mind and have a very calming effect.

Focus – Yoga fosters mind-body coordination and breathing technique greatly enhances their focus.

Fitness – Yoga asanas are a great fitness exercise making them tough both physically and mentally. Yoga helps the child to connect to his inner self.

Enhances creative skills- Improves their Creativity. A relaxed and composed mind enables the child to think out of the box. Yoga encourages them to be open-minded and to try new things in life.

Improves Irritable Bowel Syndrome – Stress plays havoc both at the physical and mental levels. Science has also noted the positive effects yoga can have on children. Statistics have found that yoga can improve symptoms in adolescents with Irritable bowel syndrome.

Asthma – Yoga can help people who have asthma learn to breathe more easily.

Multiple Sclerosis – Yoga can help people who have multiple sclerosis.

Lose Weight – It is an effective way to help obese teens lose weight.

Fatigue – Yoga can build and strengthens stamina and physical health which in turn reduces fatigue.

Improve Grades – Yoga has proven to improve kids’ grades and enhance academic performance by inculcating discipline, attendance, and self-esteem. Yoga improves grade point averages among children.

Treats sleeplessness- Yoga relaxes the mind and body keeps stress at bay. A relaxed mind and body help kids and teens fall asleep at night effortlessly.

Improves ADHD – Science has proven that yoga has brought significant benefits in children with autism and ADHD and have shown visibly reduced aggressive behavior, social withdrawal, and hyperactivity. Yoga has significantly helped kids address heightened anxiety, poor motor coordination, and weak self-regulation. This otherwise was very difficult with any other medical care.

Yoga asanas, with its relaxing breathing technique, is a great way for calming the mind while gaining an awareness of their bodies, self-control, and discipline. Children with behavioral issues have shown remarkable improvement and yoga has helped them relate in a healthy manner with other children.

Yoga has a very calming effect on hyperactive children with its relaxing breathing technique and focused time in specific asanas helps calm the children. Children with hyperactive syndrome need a higher amount of movement and yoga helps channelize their impulses in a positive manner. Statistics show that children were less hyperactive after regular yoga practice and showed increased concentration, mental and physical discipline and enhanced confidence level.

Yoga is proven to have a direct correlation between improved self-esteem, physical health and grade point among students. Students who were regular with yoga practice had fewer referrals to indiscipline and focus problems.

Yoga encourages a natural way of learning, empowers them physically, develops strength, flexibility and concentration,. It helps in keeping the child physically and mentally fit, boosts their self-esteem and can be used as a springboard to improve their grades. Regular yoga sessions bring an incremental change in the child’s personality.

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