Why Yoga for Kids?

Yoga is a complete practice for the mind and body. No matter how young we are, the world is constantly teaching us to do more, work harder, try harder, accomplish more, focus better, sit up straight, don’t talk unless spoken to…

Yet we are never taught exactly how to go about doing more and accomplishing more without burning ourselves out. Naturally, we believe that by using more effort, we will exact a better outcome. This is only half of the equation.

Yoga teaches us to constantly strive for better outcomes while learning how to feel good throughout the process of working hard.

That way, we can work hard, AND be nice to people.

Yoga is here to teach us all how to operate harmoniously in a world which is contstantly demanding more from us.

Through yoga practice, we begin by identifying our boundaries, understand the difference between right and wrong and the way that it feels in the body when we do something right or wrong.

We then discover our physical boundaries in the body through the movements we can do and the movements we can not do. The yoga practice uses the body to help us feel our boundaries for the purpose of understanding them better. Physcially, emotionally and mentally.

Once we feel into the body, Yoga teaches how to breathe for the purpose of regulating the experiences we are going through in life. No matter how much stress we encounter, the comfort of our breath will always bring us right back to where we want to be.

Yoga teaches how to establish a strong relationship with the body by learning to feel the pulses of the heart beat and the tension in the muscles as we stretch.

Yoga teaches us to focus our mind for the purpose of conentrating on a specific object, whether internal or external. Learning to focus your mind and enjoy the experience of whatever you are focusing on is a skill we all must learn at some point in life.

Yoga teaches us to meditate for the purpose of being able to examine and observe ourselves, our actions, our thoughts and emotions from an objective point of view. Meditation teaches us to separate ourselves from the experience we are having.

When we put all the yoga teachings together into one holistic experience, we learn to enjoy our lives and the spaces that we create for ourselves to exist within. We do the physical poses of yoga for the purpose of integrating this process into the body. We begin to learn what this process feels like in the body and learn to trust our intuition, always guiding us towards the best case scenario, the path of least resistance.