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