_ Hong Guangming "Children's Yoga Class" My children are very active and love to play. Can I learn anything from yoga? I believe this is a question of many parents. Let's look at it from the parents' point of view: conceptually, parents inevitably think that children are too young, inattentive, and often just want to play, and may not be able to experience the pure feelings of body and mind from yoga as adults do; In attitude, parents often just add their own experiences to their children for their growth and upbringing, hoping that their children will follow the direction decided by their parents. In fact, children are full of energy after birth, just like creatures in nature, they can grow up according to instinct and gradually build their own thinking mode. However, today, in the process of children's growth, many innate good energy is gradually reduced or even disappeared because of the education and restriction of family and social environment. ? Modern education has forgotten that self-listening and family education are important factors in shaping children's personality growth, but sometimes they become an obstacle and limit the development of children's natural instinct. For the safety of children, many parents warned not to play with water and stay away from it, so as not to fall into the water and drown. Do you know that when the mother is pregnant, the baby sleeps in a belly full of amniotic fluid, and the natural hydrophilic habit makes the child still have the instinct to swim after birth. But because many parents are afraid of water, they transfer this fear to their children and tell them to stay away from water to avoid danger. This is just an example of playing with water. Some parents will also tell their children not to talk to anyone at school, not to play with anyone, not to do this and not to touch that. Parents invisibly shape their children, but they also limit their models. We can even say that children's brains are honed by family and school education. Most of our education is done according to textbooks and teachers' guidance. Few educations require us to really listen to our bodies and tell ourselves what to do. Gradually, we lose the ability to listen to ourselves, and we forget what the beautiful energy in our bodies is. These forgetfulness are worrying. I once saw an example in Bali where a group of monkeys were playing by a deep pool. Someone threw a rambutan into the pool, only to see a monkey plop into the water, swim to the bottom like a frog to pick up rambutan, and then swim out of the water to eat. Does the monkey have a swimming coach to teach it breaststroke? No, swimming is his natural instinct. This survival instinct, the deeper the dependence on nature, the more acute the species becomes. For example, before the earthquake, some animals will feel uneasy, and before the tsunami, some animals will make noise. In fact, children are as sensitive to nature as animals, especially children who live in rural areas and often get close to nature. But now many children gradually lose this energy of integrating into nature when they grow up. When the distance between the city and the countryside is getting farther and farther, people and nature can produce * * *, and there will be less and less. You can do it. Looking for the eighth chakra. People who have studied yoga should have heard that the human body has seven invisible chakras, but where is the eighth chakra? The eighth chakra refers to the transparent wall on the outer edge of your body. When you walk in a dark room at night, you will naturally turn around before approaching a table or encountering obstacles. At this time, because you can feel something blocking the road ahead, you instinctively make a detour, precisely because the keen eighth chakra protects you like a road wall. Everyone can have this energy of self-protection. As long as you calm down first, you can feel it and find its existence. Let the child play a game first, try to approach the palm of your hand relatively slowly, close your eyes, calm down and pay attention to the sound of your body, and you will gradually feel the heat in your palm. This exercise is also the first step to guide them to learn to sit still in the future. When children begin to learn to calm down and listen to themselves, they will feel their hands getting hot, that is, they feel themselves. ? The health hazard brought by civilized society is that human beings are a part of nature, but the more people devote themselves to the development of civilization and science and technology, the farther away they are from nature. Children in many cities go out by bus or car, and have never tried walking to school. Or when you eat, you only like hamburgers and French fries, but you are very picky about vegetables and fruits. These children don't like walking in the morning when there is still dew. It is so refreshing to breathe the vitality and green of plants. They seldom know how fruits and vegetables are full of natural energy in the process of planting. For those children who have never been engaged in agriculture, when they are farming or growing tea, they don't know how to cooperate with the rhythm of nature to do the work of ploughing, plowing, harvesting and hiding. They naturally don't understand how much fun it is to play with baked sweet potatoes and pull corn in the fields. The less contact you have with nature, the less you will notice the subtle changes in nature. Children are born with energy and sensitivity to nature, but gradually disappear when they grow up, and all kinds of health concerns are reflected in their bodies. The most common example is that many children are not very flexible now. Not only can they not touch the ground with their hands when bending down, but their backs are still hunched. This is mainly due to the hardening of their bodies. Many children as young as 12 have hunchback problems. In addition, young people like to play computer games, play video games, often watch TV, and their posture is not correct for a long time, resulting in scoliosis in 90% of people who are only 20 years old now. Not to mention children, even adults rarely go out of the closed office environment or indoors. In their spare time, they will go to the park or the nature in the suburbs and try to take off their shoes and walk barefoot on the grass to absorb energy from the sky or accept air from the earth. Many physical and mental diseases of modern people are caused by not knowing how to use nature to relieve stress. We often say that nature is a universe and human body is a small universe. As parents, if they can understand the benefits of nature to people at ordinary times and teach their children to get in touch with nature and care for the small universe of the body, they can get more energy from the body to face what happens in life. Yoga is a catalyst that can connect you with the spirit of nature. Bringing children into contact with yoga from an early age can help them not forget their natural instinct, and can also induce more beautiful energy in their hearts. You can do this: stretch the spine to release the pressure. Today's children begin to receive tutoring education from the bottom. They often play computer games, and their postures are incorrect, which causes their shoulders to contract and their backs to bend. At this time, bad breath can easily accumulate on their backs, so the problem of back pain and hunchback comes. Dyspnea will not only lead to health problems, but also block the heart-to-heart chakra. When the cautious energy is bound, your love will become narrow and it is easy to become a selfish person in the future. If you find that children are always sitting and rarely get up, asking them to do this action can help relax stiff shoulder and neck muscles and sore bodies: sit cross-legged, push your body straight, straighten your back, hold your hands with your fingers crossed, and then raise your backhand above your head. This action helps to open the heart and let love radiate, and when the back spine is straight, the accumulated evil spirit in the body will be discharged from the brain. ? Yoga opens the energy of the soul. There are countless great energies in our hearts, such as kindness, compassion, happiness, patience, concentration and self-confidence. If children don't turn on these spiritual energies at an early age and make good use of them, you will never know what kind of people they are capable of becoming and what kind of life they will achieve in the future. Don't think that children can't understand the meaning of these spiritual energies when they are young. He may not know how to interpret the literal meaning, but he can clearly feel that there is energy in his body as long as it is not buried. Yoga brings inner happiness today, there are still many children who forget the power and value of the soul in the process of socialization. At this time, yoga is needed to awaken the energy of the soul. For example, in today's idol society, as long as a popular singer appears, it will be accompanied by the screams and cheers of countless fans, which makes people want to ask, can you become an idol just because you are handsome and can sing? Why are young people's idols not Gandhi, Mother Teresa or their own father? In the idolatrous society, we can see the values of these children putting the cart before the horse: they don't know that appreciating their father's honesty, kindness and dedication is an idol advantage worthy of reverence; They only look at the external figure and beauty, only pay attention to the external surface beauty and not the internal spiritual beauty. Many people get happiness from the outside, not from their own hearts. When the power of the mind is not strong enough, as long as there is one thing missing from the outside, they will suddenly feel how miserable their lives are. Through yoga practice, let children learn to feel the change of mood and find that happiness is produced by the inner function. Your heart is happy, and this is true happiness. Yoga brings spontaneous kindness. Sometimes, I see an old lady carrying a heavy cabbage up the stairs, but I seldom see a child willing to take the initiative to help. But if a child can think of the hardships of the elderly and help, this is the beauty of the soul. However, in a selfish and utilitarian society, kindness can't suddenly appear if it is not for children who have been kind since childhood, but needs to be cultivated from childhood. Children who have been exposed to yoga since childhood will automatically exert their energy, and their compassion will spontaneously help others. Yoga can make children's hearts "naturally" do good deeds, unlike most education that "teaches" children to do good deeds. Yoga brings concentration in learning. In addition, the problem of children's learning ability also deserves parents' attention. Many diets contain too much sugar and unhealthy additives, which can easily lead children to be hyperactive, often lose concentration in class, or jump around on the sofa when they should be doing homework at home. In the process of learning, it is very important to concentrate and calm down, so as to really absorb what you have learned. I met many young fitness instructors in their twenties. Their sports skills were quite good, but they didn't finish college. They think this is because they often can't settle down to study when studying. Imagine, after 10 years, how much knowledge and cultural connotation can they accumulate if they still can't settle down to learn things and step into their 30-year-old life? If you want to make your future life interesting and weighty, it is very important to calm down and keep learning. Although it is natural for children to love to play, it still needs a certain degree of meditation to learn things well. At every stage of growth, what you learn is likely to be a part of your future life; This is like saying that I can teach my favorite tea ceremony instead of yoga, or I can teach my favorite ancient art instead of tea ceremony. Even at the age of forty, I can have many interesting lifestyles in my life. When considering their children's future, parents should start to pay attention to whether their children's learning ability and absorption ability have been fully exerted since childhood. Children must learn to calm down and concentrate before they can burst into enthusiasm for learning, and all these are the changes and gains that yoga can bring. Yoga brings strong will. Although many children belong to flowers growing up in greenhouses, they can have whatever they want when they are born in rich families. Because it is very easy to get and have, and they have never experienced pain and difficulties, can they only be blown down by the wind when they encounter difficulties? Not necessarily. In fact, such a child needs yoga to help him grow up. Learn to overcome difficulties in sports, and know how to endure and overcome everything when encountering difficulties or accidents in life. Once a child can overcome the difficult movements in yoga, he can also walk through these movements in the face of life setbacks in the future. The pain and patience he experienced in yoga movements invisibly enhanced his willpower. When he finds that he can overcome it, he will have more confidence in himself. This is the willpower energy brought by yoga. You can do this: have the ability to concentrate on learning (tree). This action is to practice the ability to stand on one foot and concentrate. First of all, learn to return to your heart and listen to where your balance is, so as to find out where your body center of gravity is. Let children practice (tree) more and find the source of their inner concentration, which is very helpful for learning anything in the future. Yoga can trigger the innate beautiful energy in children's hearts, gradually discover their own potential, and let children naturally learn to cherish their inner happiness, cultivate compassion and kindness, and have concentrated learning ability and willpower.