More young people doing yoga

[Guest guest]

Shamyl,<br>If you click on the photos page to the

left of the message board, click on yoga, the next

generation. These are pictures of my children we took one day

while they were practicing. There is a childrens yoga

program here called Indigo Yoga. My kids also posed for

professional photos for Indigo for flash cards and the web

site. You can contact Indioga yoga if you would like to

buy the flashcards of the kids in poses.

[Guest guest]

Its wonderful that your nephew is starting to

practice yoga. I found a great book for kids called "Yoga

for Children" by Rajiv Chanchani. He is one of Mr.

Iyengar's senior students and runs the Yoga Ganga Centre

for Yoga Studies in the Himalayas. His book is

wonderful for children, but also for adults. Some of the

stories behind the asanas are given. It might be hard to

find, but it is definitely work a look. <br><br>Also

there is a book called something like "A Child's Garden

of Yoga" by Baba Hari Dass (I think) My kids really

liked it and there are some great pictures of groups of

kids doing asana in geometric arrangements, kind of

like those synchronised swimmers you see on the

Olympics.<br><br>Sometimes I see kids as young as 7 in my yoga class. They

just come in and do what they can, or more often just

practice until they are bored and then they run around or

read a book. It doesn't seem to bother anyone. I also

saw a little girl who was about 2 or 3 at Guruji's

workshop in NYC the first week. She would put a beach

towel down beside her mother and do an asana or just

sit and watch, then she'd run off and come back a

little later and do the same thing. It was really cool.

I hope that she is OK.