Parent-child yoga: yoga for baby health

The gradual popularity of children's yoga is not just because mothers want their babies to follow the trend, but because children can really get a good start to growth from this exercise. Whether it is physical or psychological, it will be due to the baby's "practice" and changed. For children, this kind of exercise to regulate the body and mind is very meaningful. It makes children feel that they are growing in their bodies, as if small buds have received clean water.

Why should babies practice yoga?

Increase lung capacity: Children's yoga does not require as much breathing as adult yoga, but deep breathing techniques are still attached great importance to, which not only helps increase lung capacity, but also helps improve asthma and airway sensitivity problems.

Correct body shape: Yoga can exercise the body's flexibility, balance and flexibility, perfect muscle development, and is also good for bone growth. Because every movement must be done very standard, children will naturally raise their heads and chest out to correct the bad habits such as chest hunchback that they usually develop when watching TV on the sofa.

Help fat kids lose weight: Yoga is not intense, but the amount of exercise is not small. Some mothers send fat babies to practice yoga just to help them lose weight. For children who are obese simply due to eating problems and lack of exercise, this is a good way to lose weight, because yoga requires a relatively light diet (but not vegetarian food, but a higher quality in terms of protein source), and the exercise process can also Help massage the internal organs, so while the child's appetite becomes better and sleep more soundly, he also loses weight under the influence of good habits.

Exercise the child's attention: let him learn to correspond to the outside world in silence, and build his endurance and ability to think quietly.

Enriching imagination: During practice, the coach will use storytelling to guide the children to do movements, so each child must go through some imagination before starting to practice. Exercise while listening to the story and treat himself as a role in the story., of course, can enrich imagination.

Improve attention: Balance in yoga exercises requires high attention. For children who are fond of playing and active, this is the most difficult part. They will learn to control their attention little by little during "practice", which will be very beneficial to future study and life.

Create a kind little person: Children are exposed to natural rhythms during yoga exercises from a very early age, which will help them grow into gentle and kind adults in the future, because these children will be more peaceful inside and psychological balance is easy to achieve. In India, it is best for a child to start practicing yoga before the age of 8, because only when he is young is a good time to shape his state of mind.

Companion, I am the child's partner.

Children's yoga is divided into three age groups, 18 - 28 months, 28 - 36 months, and 36 - 60 months. Only babies over the age of three can do yoga without their parents. Babies in the first two age groups must have parents to accompany them to practice together, and the role of parents is not only to take care of them, but also to cooperate with their children to do movements. With such encouragement, children who are active by nature can calm down and persist.

Guidance is like telling a story to a child.

There may be a language barrier between the child and the coach. Because yoga is, after all, a sport that contains philosophy and regulates the mind. Even if children's understanding ability is taken into account when designing yoga courses for young children, it is still easy to restrict children's imagination due to communication barriers. Therefore, the language should still be consistent with the psychology of children as much as possible. If the coach's expression is a bit crude, parents should explain to them in the words that the child is usually used to, such as "Now you have become a big tree" and "You are a flower. Little flowers will open up soon," so that the child will meet the action requirements in the atmosphere of the performance story. (Internship Editor: Wu Jinyu)