What are the benefits of children's yoga

Yoga is an extremely popular activity in today's society, and there are many yoga studios in the society that are preparing to open or in the training stage. When you come to the yoga class, you will find a phenomenon that there are always children around adults. Why do children also come here to learn yoga? So, what are the benefits of children learning yoga?

Body, Mind and Spiritual Cultivation

Yoga originated in India and is one of the six major philosophical schools in ancient India. It is not just a stretching exercise, but a practice of body, mind and spirit. Through breathing, asana, meditation and relaxation practices, the body, mind and spirit are balanced and healthy. The benefits of yoga for children can be roughly divided into two aspects: physical fitness and spiritual development.

In terms of physical fitness, learning yoga can increase children's body strength and flexibility, and enhance body awareness. Yoga is a holistic form of fitness, and various yoga postures can enhance endurance and improve poor posture. Yoga poses involve a variety of body senses such as touch, proprioception and vestibular balance, which can train students' body awareness and help them learn to plan and control movements.

Children are soft and flexible but have weak muscles

In terms of spiritual development, yoga can help children balance their emotions, enhance their self-confidence and social skills. Yoga's static postures and breathing methods allow children to learn how to slow their breathing, control and balance their emotions more effectively, and prepare them well for learning. Yoga makes children feel healthy, strong and flexible, and can improve their outer and inner confidence. Group and collaborative yoga is also a good opportunity to train children to participate in social activities.

Children are naturally very flexible, and the range of motion of their joints is greater than that of the average person. For example, their fingers can bend backwards, and they can easily do difficult yoga moves. When seeing this, many parents mistakenly believe that their children are natural yoga masters and pursue difficult moves intently. If you pay close attention, you will find that their muscle strength is actually very weak, and they cannot maintain many movements that require strong support. Whenever these children encounter a posture that requires them to support themselves with great force, they tend to be lazy and transfer the load to the joints. Over time, this will cause joint deformations and affect the children's growth.

In fact, among these yoga classes, there are yoga classes specially prepared for children. These are designed according to the characteristics of children themselves. Of course, they are also movements created by professionals to promote the physical development of children, which can enable children to develop comprehensively. In addition, yoga classes can also improve children's flexibility, and the contribution of yoga classes is immeasurable.