Kids Yoga: Enhanced Goal Setting Techniques
...ture a childs imagination for 45 minutes?
Firstly, explain to parents what they should expect to see in a typical kids Yoga class. If you are working with 45 minutes, you can easily split the class into three - fifteen minute segments. You could start with warm-ups, Sun Salutations, Vinyasa flow, or a standing sequence of Yoga postures.
Then, you could introduce a Yoga game. Games create a little friendly competition and, eventually, goal setting skills start to take root.
Yoga card decks are good tools for children to learn postures. You could have them each randomly draw a card and perform the particular posture from the card deck. This is just one of many games that children will enjoy.
Kundalini Yoga is quite active; and although it is not a game, a Kundalini Yoga segment will change the pace of your class. This change of pace is what you need to capture a childs imagination.
Finally, have them work off the floor - per...more
Yoga in Practice: Ten Solutions for Depressed Yoga Students, Part 3
...ious breath. Therefore, it is no accident that this particular Pranayama will purge depression and inner fears. As a matter of fact, Ujjayi Pranayama will instill confidence.
If Yoga students practice Ujjayi Pranayama, with an Asana sequence such as Sun Salutations or a vinyasa series, they will conquer mild depression and develop new found confidence in themselves.
There are many more Yogic solutions for anyone to get rid of depression and gain confidence in his or her self, but these ten methods are familiar to Yoga teachers and most Yoga students. Yoga practice needs to be taken home, just like homework. If a Yoga student truly wants to see results, the practice of Yoga has to be maintained on a regular basis.
Within Yoga are many...more
Yoga Teacher Training
...oga community. He is the author of two groundbreaking books Yoga For Wellness and Yoga For Transformation and speaks regularly at major yoga conferences across the world.
But Gary is also known as being an outspoken advocate for a revolution in way yoga is taught and practiced in the western world.
His viniyoga teacher training emphasizes changing and adapting postures, breathing and sequences to each individual with the intention of creating specific therapeutic effects.
And Gary's philosophy and approach are gaining ever increasing credibility.
He designed the yoga sequence for the r...more
Yoga: Three Reasons You Should Not Do Yoga Posture - downward-Facing dog
...downward-Facing dog (Adho Mukha Svanasana)
In its ideal form the downward-Facing dog assumes the shape of an upside-down V, resembling the shape of a dog when stretching after lying down, with only the hands and the feet touching the floor. It is one of the most essential postures in yoga practice, stretching and rejuvenating the entire body from the feet all the way up to the hips and down through the wrists and hands. Because the head is lower than the pelvis this pose is often classified as an inversion posture.
The Downward Facing dog posture works as a preparation for standing poses and as a warm-up of the muscles at the beginning of most of the yog...more
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