Practicing Yoga can be difficult with toddlers around; but as children grow older, adults can turn their Yoga training sessions into a family affair. Since family Yoga can benefit young and old bodies alike, practicing Yoga together can engender both improved physical fitness and some beautiful moments of bonding and relationship building.
Since Yoga is an active and very challenging practice, children are always eager to imitate the poses they see adults engaged in. Even toddlers, who are just walking, will take delight in Downward Facing Dog or Sun Salutation poses; and parents can guide youngsters into age-appropriate series to encourage mastery and good posture.
One smart method of transforming a Yoga session into something doable for the whole family is to use storytelling to engage young minds and guide children through a series of poses. Creative stories can allow kids to focus on external stimuli and can also create space for siblings or parents to work through more advanced or complex adaptations of the basic poses young children will be doing.
Other options for storytelling include adapting well-known myths or morality stories, to a Yoga series, so that children learn valuable lessons from the Yoga training session. This works especially well with practice because Yoga helps improve mental acuity and emotional well-being – allowing children to become more receptive to lessons within a story.
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