5/5/2023 0 Comments Yoga poses for kidsYes, your child may drop down on their head and try to imitate you. A practice that involves understanding the stillness in standing poses and the connection with their breath. You may practice yoga with your child at home and headstand very well may be a part of your home yoga practice but I would strongly discourage you from having your child participate in a headstand until they have a very strong personal yoga practice. Other yoga teachers might disagree with me, but until the child has an understanding and maturity about their yoga practice I don't feel that it is safe to put them in headstands. They also don't know how to internally identify what muscles to use when in a pose so I refuse to put them upside down on their precious necks. The only poses that I avoid doing with kids are headstands because most children do not have a strong sense of body awareness. Most kids will try any yoga pose that you show them, they haven't developed the voice of fear which resides in our adult minds that often keep us from taking flight in poses like Bakasana. Learning how to move their bodies through space, safely. Though kids are extremely flexible they haven't developed body awareness, that is what we work on in Bee Yoga Fusion Kids yoga classes. You might have stood amazed after seeing your child effortlessly get into a yoga pose that you've been struggling with for weeks. You don't hear children complaining that their hamstrings are tight or that they have lower back pain. Children are extremely flexible, they never really have to worry about being warmed up before practicing yoga.
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