Yoga for children, says teacher trainer Shakta Khalsa, isn’t just a scaled-down version of yoga for adults—it’s a whole different animal. For example, a teacher might lead postures by asking children to “make a mountain” with their bodies (that would be Downward Facing Dog) or become a “fearless warrior.” A breath-awareness exercise could be as simple as blowing on a feather, first gently and then more forcefully, and noticing how these different types of breathing affect the way you feel. The language is different, too: yoga teachers may have to unlearn some very basic habits, such as using the words inhale and exhale. “Kids may not know what those words mean,” Shakta says.
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Carol Joy teaches children’s yoga to five-to-nine year olds in her home studio, at an elementary school on a university campus, and at a Montessori school. The children are very enthusiastic about yoga. They love the asana sequences to stories and really like savasana with “spaghetti arms”. Carol Joy began practicing yoga at age sixty and became a 200-hour RYT four years later. She studied Radiant Child Yoga in 2012. She teach four classes of six-to-eight year olds with twelve to thirty kids in each class, and is working on teaching at the Henderson School in Boca Raton Florida which is part of Florida Atlantic University.
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