KIDS YOGA By Yogi Anand

KIDS YOGA, offered by Yogini Rekha & Yogi Anand from Adwait Yoga School, is a fun way of learning Yoga for kids, which is an excellent way for a child to exercise and has many other benefits for a child's physical, mental, and emotional health.

Adwait Yoga School 's  philosophy of KIDS YOGA is that  :

1. Yoga should be fun and we make it such.
2. Yoga should become a culture and lifestyle just as we light a lamp when we wake up.
3. Yoga helps the child in the long run as a spiritual and physical practice for the body's wellbeing helps develop willpower, as mindfulness practice to be able to handle any challenge with a positive spirit.

Regular practice of Yoga by children enhances their health, concentration, memory, improves the relationship with siblings, friends, and elders, add to mental focus & also improves mind-body combination.

By attending our 2 days Kids Yoga Program, the children would have the following benefits:

• Reduces obsession with Mobile phone, TV, and other electronic devices.
• Improves interpersonal relationships.
• Controls wandering mind. Builds attention span and concentration power.
• Augments imagination and creativity.
• Relieves mental and physical fatigue. Boosts energy levels and provides deep relaxation.
• Helps overcome negative emotions like jealousy, fear, and anger.
• Fosters a positive self-image and increases confidence, sharing and caring.
• Increases breathing and lung capacity.
• Exercises strengthens and lengthens different muscles in the body.
• Helps promote the growth.
• Encourages healthy food habits. A blessing for parents who have to deal with picky eaters and junk food addiction.

How does practicing yoga help in children's memory development?

• Relaxed learning deepens the perception.
• Reducing irritability & distractibility and increasing attention span through relaxed attentiveness.
• Activating dormant areas of the brain through stimulation and relaxation.
• Shifting useful memories from useless ones through awareness.

What do we teach and why?

• Easy, Simple  Yogasanas: for building the presence of mind. We aim for progression towards flexibility and holding for long with ease. Focus on having fun with movement, not on practicing perfectly aligned yoga poses.
• Simple breathing techniques - We teach them to hold their nose and sit for alternate nostril breathing or single nostril breathing - up to 15 minutes! This improves their focus.
• Games - We play simple games that help bring presence of mind, strategy building techniques and as stress relief techniques.
• Learning to learn – We teach short mantras and shlokas and explain the meaning through simple stories and anecdotes. Apart from powerful vibrations, they also help build ethics such as — Non-violence, Truthfulness, and non-greed into the children.
• Meditation - Chanting for relaxation, awareness and breath work.  Kids can chant Aum for up to 10 mins and be silent for up to 5 mins with their eyes closed. We will aim to achieve that.
• Ayurveda and Health Awareness - We bring sessions on Ayurveda, seasonal nutrition and lifestyle changes and simple practical aspects of sprouting, juicing, spice related awareness, etc.
• Harmony with Mother Nature - we also teach them to be environment consciousness, eating natural foods instead of refrigerated, processed and canned foods, buying local produce, visiting farmers' market, conserving water, green living, recycling etc.
• Samskara – We also teach good samskaras or character education which builds up a noble personality in a kid, a great contribution to the nation, eventually to the whole world.

Yoga Therapy for Children, offered by Adwait Yoga School

We provide private yoga therapy for children with special needs and also to help with memory and focus, learning ability improvement, and anxiety and stress problems. Yoga can have both short term and long-term benefits.

Kids Yoga Program details:

Dates: 23^rd & 24^th June 2018

Venue: Ramana Kendra, Lodhi Road, New Delhi-3

Fees (for 2 days): Rs. 2900/- (Two thousand and nine hundred only)

Duration: 4 hours

Timing: 10:00AM to 2:00PM

Trainers: Yogi Anand and Yogini Rekha

About Teachers: Yogini Rekha & Yogi Anand

Their area of work has been to offer Yoga to seekers. As parents of two children, they are able to relate to the stress and strain kids undergo in a day to day lives. They have groomed their children to rise above these situations and have offered this to several other kids as well.