Yoga Articles
YOGA FOR CHILDREN? YES!
Why yoga for children? Fifteen years ago, that question was most likely asked about martial arts. Now there are classes for children at martial arts studios around every corner. And, like martial arts, yoga develops many wonderful qualities in children. Beside the obvious benefits of exercising the physical body, yoga sharpens the child’s ability to calm down and focus. It cultivates confidence and self-discipline. Many find that yoga, when practiced regularly, helps children become more aware of their thoughts and feelings. From this awareness, changes and growth in new and positive directions can blossom.
- Shakta Kaur Khalsa
Raising Ourselves and Our children
Parenting has been called “the highest yoga”, and for good reason. Where else do you have the challenge and opportunity to be your most mindful at each moment? Where your every communication has the potential to create conflict or upliftment? Children respond either consciously or unconsciously to the vibratory energy of each moment. Much of the time, we adults have lost our sensitivity to the energy that vibrates between us all. Children can make us painfully aware of our gaps in awareness.
- Shakta Kaur Khalsa
Practice of Peace for Adults and Children
Our world and our mind are made of the same stuff--energy. Yogi Bhajan, Master of Kundalini Yoga, talks about how everything is vibrational frequency, or energy, in The Mind: Its Projections and Multiple Facets: ''The total sum of this life and this Earth, of this planet, this cosmos, and this space is nothing but energy. Call it any kind of theory you want, this life is constructed so that the energy of existence is transferred into matter. That matter can also be transferred into energy. Whatever the details of your theory, somehow that essential energy created matter and that matter sustains us through the energy!"
- Shakta Kaur Khalsa
- As published in Aquarian Times Magazine, 2004
Yoga for Children with Autism/SPD: A Natural Match
Brian has autism. He is ten years old, but in many ways his six year old sister, Lydia, is his model for behavior. They come to yoga class together, and Brian follows his sister’s lead, hissing and stretching into cobra pose, squatting like a frog, and stretching forward toward his toes. He loves to make up his own yoga stories. His favorite part of yoga is meditating and singing affirmations. “I am happy, I am good” rings out enthusiastically, getting louder as he continues. Vocal modulation is not easy for Brian, but no one minds. He is happy. He is learning self-regulation through the development of awareness that is a natural byproduct of yoga practice. And, most importantly, he is learning to be himself.
- Shakta Kaur Khalsa
The Myth of Attention Deficit Disorder
Over the past thirty years, attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has emerged from the relative obscurity of cognitive psychologists’ research laboratories to become the "disease du jour" of America’s schoolchildren. Accompanying this popularity has been a virtually complete acceptance of the validity of this "disorder" by scientists, physicians, psychologists, educators, parents, and others. Upon closer critical scrutiny, however, there is much to be troubled about concerning ADD/ADHD as a real medical diagnosis.
- Thomas Armstrong
Yoga Para Niños
Por qué yoga para niños? Quince años atrás, la misma pregunta se hacía con respecto a las artes marciales; ahora hay clases de artes marciales para niños por todos lados. Así como lo hacen las artes marciales, yoga desarrolla muchas cualidades maravillosas en los niños. Más allá de los obvios beneficios que aporta el ejercicio físico, yoga aumenta en el niño la capacidad de calmarse y enfocarse, además de cultivar la autoestima y la autodisciplina. Muchos encuentran que con la práctica regular de yoga los niños llegan a lograr una mayor consciencia de sus propios pensamientos y emociones. Es desde esta conciencia que pueden florecer los cambios y el crecimiento hacia nuevas y positivas direcciones.
- Shakta Kaur Khalsa
Yoga for women - For Radiant Health and Ageless Beauty
Staying young for a long, long time is a wonderful, blessed way to live. As women, we have so much to give as we mature; so much wisdom born of hard earned experience, and so much loving kindness to share. So let's keep our good health and vitality so we can reap the profit of a life well-lived.
- Shakta Kaur Khalsa
