![]() ![]() You can use yoga flow routines with preschoolers, too, though in my experience it helps to go a bit slower to make sure they get all the body parts in the right places. Slow down with balance poses, breathing, and more focus on your own body. Start with quick energy, then bring it down. You can do a yoga flow routine several times through right at the beginning of class.īy the last time through you either slow it down substantially or add in some trickier balance poses and then start to cue breathing. It’s a fast-paced yoga routine that follows the basic outline of a sun salutation. Yoga Flow is a very special “call and response” yoga routine that can be done with almost every age group of kids to help them learn yoga and move efficiently from crazy movement to focused. What you need is to teach effective kids yoga is a Yoga Flow. You need to match their quick pace and their loud voices to start, and then with a few minutes of repetitive, weight bearing, crossing the midline poses, start to get them to slow down. The right set of yoga poses (for kids!) in a set sequence that helps them learn the yoga but keeps them moving productively. ![]() Sometimes not even in a whole class period.Īnd, almost impossible before bed. Or they need to learn how to practice mindfulness.īut it’s really, really hard to go from fast like a cheetah to slow turtle in the blink of an eye. When they move at the speed of light and are jumping or bouncing or talking so fast you can’t even get them to take a breath.Ĭlearly, kids need to do yoga a little differently than adults. However most kids, especially little ones, are just naturally moving all over the place…wiggling, running, jumping, and noisy. If you are teaching them yoga, you might think that it will be a naturally calm and focused class, since yoga is sort of a naturally calming practice. Slow Vinyasa Yoga is a therapeutic dance of moving meditation.So you want to teach yoga poses and sequences to kids and help them learn to slow down, right? Slow flow allows a person to become familiar with his or her body, create a reflective pause, and create the time to go inward. ![]() Poses can be refined and strengthened, without feeling rushed into the next move, next breath, or next pose. Even the most advanced Yoga practitioner has much to learn within the reflective pace of slow Vinyasa. The pace may be slower, but challenges will be present with difficulties to work through. All levels of Yoga practitioners can find their personal challenges, as they slowly and mindfully move through a series. Slow Flow Vinyasa Yoga is not restricted to beginners or those with physical limitations. Slow flowing Vinyasa is a wonderful practice in discovering one’s personal limitations and learning how to move past those limitations. The mind and body connection is one of the main goals when practicing all forms of Yoga. The practitioner also has the time to mentally engage with the body, as it moves through a series. The practitioner has time to evaluate how and when a pose should to be modified, due to physical limitations or limitations in experience. Slow flow brings the element of time into the practice. Slow Flow Vinyasa Yoga allows beginners to create their own synchronized dance, while learning poses and how to move, breathe, and stretch between poses. Moving through the Sun Salutation series requires the practitioner to synchronize the breath, while moving through, and holding poses. The Sun Salutationsseries is the most commonly known Vinyasa movement. ![]() Those, who are familiar with the traditional practice of holding of yoga poses (also known as Hatha Yoga), find Vinyasa to be an invigorating yoga practice as breath, movement, and posture form a continuous, flowing, dance-like, moving meditation. Hence, the need for Slow Flow Vinyasa Yoga sessions filled the gap between Hatha and Vinyasa. Unfortunately, sloppy form, not focusing, and not being mentally present for practice, could potentially lead to injury. Additionally, experienced students have had problems focusing on the poses, and may start moving quickly in and out of poses, with sloppy form. A common problem that can develop is that the new student may not be familiar with the sequence and try to keep up with experienced students. The pace is usually quick, requiring the practitioner to focus inward, while synchronizing breath and movement. Vinyasa Yoga is often seen as a more athletic practice. ![]()
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