Parent-Child Yoga: Parent-Child Yoga Time

Research shows that yoga postures help children's intellectual development. Increase the elasticity of muscles and ligaments, promote spinal development, improve posture, and adjust appetite. Yoga is also a good way to relax. Children and adults can use yoga to deal with negative emotions such as tension, irritability, and depression.

Special tips:

Children's yoga activities should be tailored to their physical development. Not all adult yoga movements are suitable for children. For example, smoking adjustment, which is important for adults, is not necessary for children. Since the child's muscle development is not complete, some postures that require high-intensity strength support are not only useless but harmful to the child and should be avoided.

Yoga should be a set of movements that are easy to imitate for children. Many postures of yoga imitate creatures in nature, such as puppies that children are familiar with. When practicing, children can consciously guide children to use their imagination.

Music: piano, violin, dulcimer, children's songs... any music that children like and are familiar with.

Location: ventilated rooms, lawns, beach... any occasion where children can be quiet and relaxed. Enjoy the sunshine and air, and the communication between your body and the land.

Time: Early morning, evening, during games... any time the child wants.

Action: Postures that the child likes to imitate and can do. It doesn't matter whether what he does is standard or not. When necessary, you can assist his movements without emphasizing the maintenance of the movements, so that the child is completely in a natural state of play. Because the child's bones are in a developing state, no movement can be forced.

Breathing: Normal and free breathing. Don't teach your child how to breathe yoga.

Diet: Normal diet. (Internship Editor: Wu Jinyu)