YOGA NEED AND IMPORTANCE FOR CHILDREN

YOGA NEED AND IMPORTANCE FOR CHILDREN:

Here is a list of some of the benefits of yoga for children:
• Research shows yoga helps children focus in school in order to achieve higher academic success.
• Yoga gives children more inner peace, joy and expands their imagination and creativity.
• Yoga helps with self-esteem, self-expression, self confidence and weight loss.
• When children learn techniques for self-health, relaxation, and inner fulfillment, they can navigate life’s challenges with a little more ease.
• Yoga at an early age encourages self-esteem and body awareness with a physical activity that is noncompetitive. Promote cooperation and compassion instead of opposition.
• Yogasanas are unique postures that enhance their flexibility, strength, coordination, and body awareness. In addition, their concentration and sense
of calmness and relaxation improves.
• Yoga helps in improving the overall immunity by restoring circulatory, respiratory and digestive vitality.
• Practicing yoga helps children learn how to control their emotions. Especially for kids with autism spectrum disorders or other behavioral issues.
• Yoga improves self-discipline. Children who are learning yoga also learn to master their own behavior.
• Practicing yoga improves focus and attention.
• Children that spend a lot of time seated at desks in school or in front of the computer at home may develop upper body tension and increased spinal pressure. Yoga relieves this.
• Yoga helps kids build patience. It takes patience and time to learn a new physical skill, and as new yoga poses are introduced, your child may not be able to do it all at first.
• Practicing yoga improves focus and attention. Yoga requires concentration.
• Yoga helps children develop control and awareness of their breathing. Breath awareness and the ability to calm down and meditate are important skills
that children can use for their whole lives.
• Yoga helps prevent sports injuries. By improving strength and overall flexibility, yoga can help young athletes prevent injury to growing bones and muscles.
• It builds healthier eating habits. Some studies indicate that kids who practice yoga may choose healthier foods.
• Yoga make possible not only physical and mental development but also intellectual and spiritual development.
• Yogasanes reduce fatigue and soothe the nerves.
• Yoga is non-violent activity and a person becomes morally good.
• Yogasanas stimulate different glands of the body, which helps the body to acquire a well-balanced growth.