Children usually sit and stand incorrectly, which will affect the development of bones. Continuous yoga practice can adjust these basic postures of children and let them develop the habit of good posture.
Step 2 correct your figure
Correct abnormal body shapes caused by natural or bad posture, such as hunchback, scoliosis, X-leg, O-leg, etc. In addition, it can strengthen muscles, reduce excess fat in the body and improve the body shape of chubby people.
Step 3 prevent myopia
In the practice of yoga poses, you will encounter many children's eyes, and there are also yoga poses specially used to treat myopia and astigmatism, which is very beneficial to prevent children's myopia.
4. Promote the flexibility and flexibility of the body.
Continuing to practice yoga will enhance the flexibility and flexibility of children's muscles, bones and ligaments, promote the development of children's self-protection function, and make children less likely to be injured in other sports or daily life.
5, improve immunity
Children can enhance the function of the whole viscera and body through yoga practice, help detoxify, promote the metabolism of the body, and then improve the immunity of the body.
6. Enhance self-confidence and improve personality.
Yoga can help children touch their inner self, realize the best things in their hearts, enhance their self-confidence, learn to respect and tolerate, improve their interpersonal skills, and promote him/her to live in harmony with the surrounding environment and others.
7. Improve your attention and patience
Yoga can help children control their own thoughts, calm their thoughts, improve their attention and patience, enhance their memory and learning ability, and help them become better students and athletes.
8. Increase vital capacity
Children's yoga is not as demanding on breathing as adult yoga, but breathing exercises in each class will teach children the skills of deep breathing in a way that children can accept. With the continuous practice, children will naturally develop the habit of deep breathing, making breathing more free and powerful, which not only helps to increase vital capacity, but also helps to improve asthma and tracheal sensitivity.
Disadvantages: 1, easy to get hurt.
Improper yoga posture or difficult yoga movements will bring health risks to children's bone development to a certain extent, often causing damage to the lamina and ligaments behind the spinal canal, and even seriously damaging the spinal cord. In addition, lacing can enhance the flexibility of waist and joints when practicing yoga, but children's bones are in the development stage, and improper practice is more likely to cause injuries.
2. Improper exercise affects bone development.
Children in the growth and development stage have soft bones and muscles. Improper yoga practice will affect children's bone development to some extent and bring health risks.
How old did the child start practicing yoga? Children over 3 years old can practice parent-child yoga with their parents, and can only teach them some postures selectively. Children aged 7 to 15 can also practice student yoga alone, because the child's heart is in the present and will not run to the past or float to the future. The current practice is the most effective. However, it should be noted that some postures that hinder children's growth cannot be done, and they may affect children's endocrine system. The intensity of practice can increase with age. /kloc-more than 0/5 can directly take adult yoga classes.
Children's Yoga Action Style 1, Butterfly Style
Stand with your arms raised from your sides and extended upward. Stretch up from your toes. Put down your arms, return to your sides, and land slowly. You can practice your arm movements several times before you try to stand on tiptoe.
2. Monkey style
Stand, raise your arms, bend forward so that your upper body, arms and hands face the floor and relax. If you feel difficult after finishing, you can bend your knees. Straighten out slowly and return to the standing position.
3. Lion style
Sit cross-legged, with your back straight and your hands on your knees. Take a deep breath. When you exhale, stick out your tongue as much as possible and shout "ah." Open your fingers at the same time and stretch your arms forward. Some babies can also look up at the same time and look above their eyebrows.
4. Cat style
Put your hands on your knees, your knees are perpendicular to your hips, your legs are parallel, and your wrists are perpendicular to your shoulders. Lift your pelvis, chest out, chin forward, head up. Tuck your hips, arch your back and relax your head. Repeat these two actions continuously.
5. Rat type
Kneel on the ground with both hands and knees. Put your legs together, sit your hips on your feet and touch the floor with your forehead. Try to keep your spine straight. Put your arms on both sides of your legs, palms up. Quiet, relax.
6. Bird style
From the standing position, put your hands together on your chest and focus on your left leg. Lift your right foot and put your heel on your left ankle. Your toes can touch the floor, and your right knee is facing the right. When your body can keep balance, stretch your hands up and raise them above your head. Put your right foot down and your left foot up and repeat the action just now.
7.frog style
Feet are hip width apart and toes are inward. Squat down and put your hands on the floor between your knees, shoulder width apart. Try to keep your spine straight and your head in line with your spine.
Step 8 rest
Lie flat and keep your body straight. Legs apart, hip width apart, feet relaxed to your sides. Put your arms at your sides, palms up. Try to keep your head and spine in a straight line, close your eyes and imagine yourself slowly sinking into the clouds.
Can children improve by practicing yoga? From the point of view of exercise physiology and anatomy, every joint of human body has its own range of activities, and high-intensity activities exceeding this range for a long time often bring short-term or long-term damage to joints. If you are too eager for success, too strong or too difficult, plus the wrong posture, it may lead to sports injuries, such as muscle ligament strain, meniscus injury, joint inflammation, neuralgia, etc. These are common "yoga diseases". It can be seen that practicing yoga should fully consider your flexibility, balance and strength, and must follow the principle of doing what you can.
Yoga lacing can enhance the flexibility of waist bones and joints, which has certain benefits. However, children's bones are in the development stage, and improper exercise is more likely to cause injuries and leave sequelae. Generally speaking, it is not recommended for children to practice yoga to improve.
Height is influenced by many factors, which can be summed up in two aspects: heredity and environment. Among them, heredity has the greatest influence on height, accounting for about 70%. Environmental factors include nutrition, sleep, exercise, disease and environmental pollution. To sum up, heredity, sleep, nutrition and exercise are the four main factors affecting height.
Precautions for children practicing yoga 1, fasting
Before doing yoga practice, don't eat too much for half an hour and fast.
2. clothes
When doing yoga, let the children wear comfortable and elastic yoga clothes; Use a yoga mat.
3. The movements are gentle.
Children's yoga practice pays attention to fun, does not need too much intensity, and does not pursue flexibility too much, because children's bodies are still developing, and movements should be mainly gentle.
4. Pay attention to the age stage
Children of different ages have different intensity and duration of practice. Younger children are not easy to calm down and should not stay in an action for too long; The balance and coordination of muscles are not high, and the intensity of action is small.
5. Yoga training needs special design.
People's yoga movements are not necessarily suitable for children, and children's yoga activities should be specially designed to meet the needs of children's physical development. Some high-intensity movements, such as arch bridge and monkey style, should not be practiced by children without the guidance of a professional yoga teacher. According to the development of children's bones, they can be stretched.