| How can Yoga help children deal with anger issues? | | | | bigger, more flexible, and more coordinated than they |
| What solutions can Kids Yoga offer to parents and | | | | used to be? I can remember when a guy, over 300 |
| emotional children? Let's take a look at some solutions | | | | pounds of body weight, was slow. It's all about the |
| that your local Yoga teacher will have to offer in a | | | | cross-training and professional teams in all sports, |
| Kids Yoga class. | | | | incorporate Yoga to avoid injuring their multi-million dollar |
| Children learn, at a very young age, that anger and | | | | athletes. |
| tantrums can help them get their way. Parents | | | | In the West, it is often forgotten that Indian males |
| naturally want to give a child the best of everything, | | | | practiced Yoga for thousands of years. Many were |
| but what was "cute" at two years of age, may no | | | | from the Kshatriya caste. This was the Indian warrior |
| longer be acceptable behavior for a child who is five | | | | caste and the people who turned back Alexander the |
| years of age. | | | | Great. The Indians are a deeply spiritual people, but |
| The foundation of a child's personality is created in the | | | | they have a proud history of military prowess. Do not |
| first seven years. Parents are looking for constructive | | | | forget about the Gurkas. |
| activities for children, but where do they start? Kids | | | | Lastly, most of the Asian martial arts can trace their |
| Yoga offers children a chance to develop strength, | | | | ancestry back to the Shaolin temple. The Shaolin |
| flexibility, endurance, and to enjoy the companionship of | | | | monks credited an Indian sage by the name of |
| other children, without a competitive mind-set that can | | | | Bodhidharma for passing on his knowledge of health |
| cause aggression. | | | | maintenance. We do not know the exact specifics of |
| Controlling aggression, by attending Yoga classes for | | | | what Bodhidharma taught, but you can be guaranteed |
| kids, carries over into the competitive aspects of life. | | | | a good part of it was Yoga. It is said Bodhidharma |
| We know that our children are going to face athletic | | | | was from royalty, a Brahman at birth, studied under |
| and academic competition. Children are naturally | | | | Buddha, and became a member of the Kshatriya |
| competitive, and they want to win every time. This is a | | | | caste. |
| basic component of human nature, but we also know | | | | History has many "twists and turns," but the fact is - |
| that our children will not always win every contest. | | | | Yoga can make the weak strong and flexible. Kids |
| Yoga is the perfect outlet for children. For those who | | | | Yoga enhances athletic performance, and it takes |
| consider Yoga a "feminine activity," consider this: The | | | | fortitude to be consistent in Yoga practice. |
| National Football League teams have Yoga teachers | | | | Yoga for children is an activity with many rewards, |
| train their players, and they teach "Yoga." Why? Have | | | | including anger management. |
| you ever noticed that football players are faster, | | | | |