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Yoga For Children
by Indra Singh

yoga for childrenWe often think of children as carefree, with very few worries, and forget that they go through stress just like any adult. In today’s society of peer pressure, consumerism and bullying, children need to be able to find a safe place to release their worries and concerns.

As a yoga teacher and a single mom of two very strong-minded girls, I decided to begin teaching classes to children, since, as with most things, the younger you begin yoga practice the easier it becomes. I spend a great deal of my time around children between the ages of four and fourteen, and have noticed that they sometimes find it hard to enjoy the simpler aspects of life due to all the stimulation they experience in their lives. They need to learn to be happy with who they really are in peace and harmony, enjoy their own company and, most of all, love themselves. So I began my mission to help children naturally access the tools from within so they could understand their true selves and true personalities.

Teaching yoga to a group of ten- to thirteen-year-olds is a challenging but positive experience. They absorb all they learn with pleasure and enthusiasm, which is truly heart warming.

Our practice is kundalini yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan. It is a very balanced and positive practice, which works on the process of uncoiling our energy so that we are able to know and understand our true potential. Our class structure consists of the following:

We tune in with a particular kundalini yoga chant, “Ong namo guru dev namo.” It means, “I greet the wise teacher within me and outside of me.” We are all true teachers inside ourselves and being aware of this is of great importance.

Then we warm up our bodies with gentle stretches.

We then begin a set of positions that are known as a “kriya,” which means “action.” Kriyas come in a particular structured format not to be changed unless the timings are reduced for each position. Each kriya stimulates a certain area of the body to . . .

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Indra Singh has been studying yoga for twenty years and trained to be a yoga teacher in the U.K., U.S.A. and Brazil. Her main practice is kundalini yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan. She specializes in teaching children’s yoga and yoga for children with special needs, and the benefits of yoga for the pregnant mother and her unborn baby. She currently lives with her two daughters, ages ten and four, in the UK.

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