Relaxation Yoga – Stress Children Teenagers
Believe it or not, even children suffer from stress.
Hence, the need for relaxation Yoga to handle stress in children and teenagers. Actually, we aren’t aware of it, but ever since birth a child is put through stress. True, there are times of relaxation too, but that’s mostly confined to hours of sleep.
The kind of relaxation we get at recreation hardly amounts to much. This is because most of our modern day recreational activities are not soothing, gentle or comforting. Quite the contrary, in fact they most often leave us more agitated than before we began.
Take for instance the process of being born.
What a stressful situation it is. Emerging from the cozy comforts of the silent, ocean-like womb into the noisy, raucous world of screaming doctors, nurses and interns, the smell of formaldehyde and ethyl, being handed from person to person and worst still, being turned upside down and spanked – howsoever gently – on a bare, tender bottom. If that isn’t stress in itself.
The stress never ceases. And we don’t have to elucidate the occasions and instances. The point is how to cope with the stress. Yoga provides the answer. Relaxation Yoga for managing stress in children and teenagers has proven highly effective; however, only if done on a regular basis. Start them on warm-ups and Surya Namaskar. Then put them on to asanas in the following categories:
- Standing poses
- Sitting poses
- Supine poses
- Prone poses
- Inverted poses
- Balancing poses
Also remember to do lots and lots of Dirga Pranayama – that is slow, Yogic breathing. Then progress to Kapalabhatti and Pranayamas. Finally teach them meditation on the breath. It is also important to teach kids and teenagers the importance of a Yogic Diet. Junk food can play havoc with your stomach and your health and subsequently your well-being. Remember the maxim, “Happy mind in a body “ and abide by it. Look how they’ll be able to cope with stress of their own accord.
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