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