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This document discusses introducing yoga to children as a way to enhance their physical and mental health. It explains that yoga was developed in ancient India by imitating the postures and behaviors of animals and plants. The document advocates teaching yoga to kids by incorporating it into play and stories about nature, animals, and plants. This allows children to learn yoga through familiar examples while also associating themselves with nature.

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align them with the mental nature. It’s a developmen- well-being tally appropriate tool for filled with preschoolers. kindness, Yoga was developed in empathy ancient India by taking les- and altru- ism. The beauty of yoga is Yoga was originated in an- that it can be easily mixed cient India during 2nd cen- with play, games, music and tury B.C. It provides physi- storytelling. Stories of cal, mental and spiritual animals and nature can be fitness to a serious practi- intertwined with animal tioner. postures, voices and ac- Yoga reached the west sons out of nature and its tions. Children learn in Mid-19th century and wonderful creations. yoga through stories. They spread fast as a means of The sages who created the can enjoy it because it is exercise for physical and science of yoga imitated learnt through movements mental fitness. It provided the postures of animals and sounds of relief to many, in a fast and plants. They familiar examples from paced materialistic world. equated and absorbed nature such as trees, butter- Yoga is proposed as an ef- various behavioral differ- flies, peacocks, frogs, cats, YOGA FOR KIDS fective remedy to enhance ences such as the graceful- lions, gorillas, flowers ness, calmness, valor, by power and stillness ob- LEKHA, JUNNIFER, ANNIE served in animals, birds and other living and non- living organisms of Mother Nature. While practicing yoga the children merge the physical and mental themselves into the nature and so on. Through yoga health and to face the and absorb the postures of these living challenges of life with lot meaning of life. things, children learn to flex more ease and confidence. Teaching yoga to children themselves and at the Yoga can be introduced to has its social ramifications same time associate them- young children so that it selves with those animals can become a way of life for and learn how they adapt them. It can be to the nature. They, mixed with play so that they stand like a maple tree, bal- achieve physical fitness, ance like a flamingo, sit like flexibility, concentration, a frog, and growl like a lion while they learn the innate relationship between life forms and because through mother nature and the prin- them we can build a strong ciple of interdependence. society with a compassion for preserving the nature and at the same time calmness and even building its physical and

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Yoga for kids pamplet

  • 1. align them with the mental nature. It’s a developmen- well-being tally appropriate tool for filled with preschoolers. kindness, Yoga was developed in empathy ancient India by taking les- and altru- ism. The beauty of yoga is Yoga was originated in an- that it can be easily mixed cient India during 2nd cen- with play, games, music and tury B.C. It provides physi- storytelling. Stories of cal, mental and spiritual animals and nature can be fitness to a serious practi- intertwined with animal tioner. postures, voices and ac- Yoga reached the west sons out of nature and its tions. Children learn in Mid-19th century and wonderful creations. yoga through stories. They spread fast as a means of The sages who created the can enjoy it because it is exercise for physical and science of yoga imitated learnt through movements mental fitness. It provided the postures of animals and sounds of relief to many, in a fast and plants. They familiar examples from paced materialistic world. equated and absorbed nature such as trees, butter- Yoga is proposed as an ef- various behavioral differ- flies, peacocks, frogs, cats, YOGA FOR KIDS fective remedy to enhance ences such as the graceful- lions, gorillas, flowers ness, calmness, valor, by power and stillness ob- LEKHA, JUNNIFER, ANNIE served in animals, birds and other living and non- living organisms of Mother Nature. While practicing yoga the children merge the physical and mental themselves into the nature and so on. Through yoga health and to face the and absorb the postures of these living challenges of life with lot meaning of life. things, children learn to flex more ease and confidence. Teaching yoga to children themselves and at the Yoga can be introduced to has its social ramifications same time associate them- young children so that it selves with those animals can become a way of life for and learn how they adapt them. It can be to the nature. They, mixed with play so that they stand like a maple tree, bal- achieve physical fitness, ance like a flamingo, sit like flexibility, concentration, a frog, and growl like a lion while they learn the innate relationship between life forms and because through mother nature and the prin- them we can build a strong ciple of interdependence. society with a compassion for preserving the nature and at the same time calmness and even building its physical and