Kids

[Guest guest]

I hope no one misunderstood, I don't take my kids

to yoga class with me. They have a special class

just for kids where I practice. I think it would be

disruptive and rude to bring a 6 year old to class (and

probably not too good for the child either). <br> I don't

let my kids do anything too intense either, because I

think it could be harmful. However, I don't see how a

few simple asanas could hurt. One good way I've found

to work on backbending is to make my body into a

tabletop and then let my daughter try to do a supported

backbend over me. She loves it and has a lot of fun. Also,

its amazing how little fear kids have. I have a big

psychological block about handstands and its taken a lot of

work for me to even do one against the wall without a

spotter, but my daughter will just try to kick on up

without a care in the world.

[Guest guest]

It's definitely important for kids to see that

yoga is something fun rather than this intense thing

that mummy or daddy are really hard-bitten about doing

right, because then they'll never want to try it! Also,

practising so much with them around makes it an amazing

experience just to go to a class or have a practice by

myself sometimes, that I think sometimes I appreciate

and enjoy the practice more than people who don't

have kids around most of the time. Kids are a great

leveller to your ego while you're doing yoga, it makes it

hard to take yourself too seriously - and that's

practising yoga too!!!

[Guest guest]

Perhaps if you let your kids practice (their

version) with you at home enough, your children could come

to a class occasionally. My boys are 4 and 2. They

love to come into one of my yoga classes near the end

to watch and maybe practice their series. They know

that if they are loud they won't come back, so they

are respectful and quiet. The next generation of

yogis deserves a peek at class while they are still

small.<br><br>Yours in yoga,