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...You may know the benefits of yoga for adults, but do you know about all the benefits your kids can gain from a little yoga practice each week? Yoga is rapidly gaining favor as both an alternative and a complement to traditional kids sports. It is yogas wide range of benefits that is making it increasingly popular with all types of kids. Physically, yoga improves kids strength and flexibility, as well as their balance and coordination. Mentally, its breathing exercises improve kids ability to focus and relieve anxiety.

What can yoga offer my child?
The ability to control stress
Children are sometime under a great deal of stress. Yoga can help your child learn how to relax. Through yoga, your child learns how to breathe correctly, taking longer, slower breaths, and relaxing his body through breath. He can then apply this to his world when he encounters challenging situations.

A healthier body
Did you know that 17.1% of children from the ages of 2-19 years of age are facing obesity in the United States?1 Thats 1.1 million children! The good news is there are great benefits from practicing yoga. Yoga is a powerful technique for children to begin moving their bodies in ways that feel good, as well as learning to take care of and respect their bodies. Yoga can also help your child become stronger, and gain endurance and flexibility. If your child is involved in another sport, a regular yoga practice is a great cross training activity and can help reduce the risk of injuries. Yoga also promotes good posture, as well as improved stability and balance.

Increased self-esteem
Kids yoga is a non-competitive activity; theres no winning or losing. Yet it does offer your child the ability to master challenging poses (especially as she gets older). Your child can feel good about her increasing ability without having to worry about how she compares to everyone else. This experience of success can help your child fee...more

Yoga is Suitable for Everyone

...nsidered by many to be the most difficult path.

Bhakti Yoga: The practice of extreme devotion in one-pointed concentration upon the concept of God.

Karma Yoga: All the movements and all labor of any kind is done with the mind centered on one's personal concept of God.

Tantra Yoga: A way of showing the unseen consciousness in form through specific diagrams, and movements. One of the diagrams that is used to show the joining of the physical and spiritual bodies is two triangles superimposed upon one another. The downward-pointing triangle represents the physical body. The upward-pointing triangle represents the spiritual body of support, energy, and vastness.

Kashmir Shaivism: It is based in emot...more

Yoga: Three reasons you should not do Yoga posture - half Moon

...ach down and up simultaneously, you will reintegrate parts that feel separate from the whole and recognize that the body is a whole made of parts that are all aware of each other.

Note: If you have any neck problems, do not turn your head to look upward; continue looking straight ahead.

Although the Half Moon posture has many benefits, in some health conditions it should not be practiced.

Three important reasons not to do Half Moon posture:

1) Do not practice...more

Yoga For Multiple Sclerosis

...Can Yoga therapy help people with Multiple Sclerosis? In 2004, an Oregon Health and Science University study found that Yoga significantly reduced fatigue in people with multiple sclerosis. Data and studies regarding Yoga therapy for Multiple Sclerosis are scarce, but physical activity is definitely important for anyone with MS.

What is Multiple Sclerosis and how can Yoga help? Multiple Sclerosis, also known as MS, is generally classifie...more