Yoga for Children
Blossoming their Natural Potential
Program Details
Our Yoga for Children program introduces yoga through simple, life enhancing asanas. These asanas can enhance concentration and memory, focus, and mind/body coordination. The practices learned are an effective preventative for obesity, asthma, sinusitis and other chronic ailments.
The Yoga for Children program offers a unique possibility for every child to experience a joyful blossoming of their natural potential. We celebrate the natural gifts within every child including wonder and a sense of oneness with life.
The Yoga for Children's workshop consists of an introduction to yoga practices including a few simple life enhancing asanas and kriyas. The program content is presented through fun games and play so that children experience a sense of belonging and unity with life.
The class, designed by Sadhguru and conducted by a trained teacher, is open to children age 7-14. The program focuses on the following aspects:
• Upa Yoga: a system of exercise that activates the joints, muscles and energy system, bringing ease to the whole system.
• AUMkar Meditation: a potent tool to enhance concentration, memory, focus and mind/body coordination
• Nadi Shuddi: a simple practice involving the breath, that balances and purifies the system
• Fun games and snacks
Thoppukarnam: Also known as brain yoga commonly, activates the brain and enhances thinking capacity, alertness, memory and concentration.
Mantra Yoga (AUMkar Meditation): Mantra yoga is a potent tool to enhance concentration, memory, focus and mind/body coordination. It can also help in coming out of psychological disturbances, fear, nightmares as well as help in remedying attention disorders.
Nadi Shuddhi: The Nadi Shuddhi practice cleanses the nadis – the pathways through which pranic energy flows – resulting in a balanced system and psychological wellbeing.
Benefits
Enhance concentration and memory, focus, and mind/body coordination.
The practices learned are an effective preventative for obesity, asthma, sinusitis and other chronic ailments.
Age: 7 - 13
Intensity: Low
Experience: Beginner
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