Guest guest Posted January 22, 2006 Report Share Posted January 22, 2006 diane, i think it's baron baptiste's book that's entitled "my daddy is a pretzel" should be good to check out Diane Scobie <enhe wrote: Looks like I'll have the opportunity to create a class for kids - grade school. I'm SO excited about sharing yoga with them. Does anyone have any advice and experience to share? Can you recommend any books or other resources that might help? Much thanks and namaste' Diane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 22, 2006 Report Share Posted January 22, 2006 I let my daughter look at my ashtanga yoga practice card, have her do suryia namaskara A and B, then have fun with the other asanas as she wishes, and sometimes she makes up her own and names them for fun, like popcorn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 i think i missed the email prior to this one...re kids yoga?? i teach a kids yoga class every week and love it!! we start out with ashtanga, and end in fun games like "yogi says" and the kids do love it. my kids are ages 6 to 11....in fact they all did 108 sun salutations in october!!! i would love to hear from any of you, whom are teaching children.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 2, 2006 Report Share Posted February 2, 2006 I have to just say, I really appreciated your earlier post, with all your helpful ideas about games you can play with yoga asana. I do think children can concentrate from a very early age (I did myself when learning the piano), but that doesn't mean it's 'BS' to make yoga fun. I personally love Astanga, but not some of the attitudes that some people bring to it. Even when I practice with friends, we keep it quite playful. When Guruji came to London he was laughing and joking during the practice, and I think people in the West forget that and take yoga, Astanga in particular, far too seriously (by which I don't mean that they make it too important - yoga is important, just that important doesn't have to mean humourless). Certainly children will happily follow a few sun salutations (in my experience anyway), but why not make the rest of the session a little more playful - it's not about dumbing down, it's about keeping yoga joyful. JMHO! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 All It seems noble to teach kids yoga. It may also be difficult to sustain the program, at least in observation of two yoga studios in Florida, one of them ashtanga-based, which had such a program two years ago. I went to their web sites, with the hope of giving the contact information to you, so that you can email them and ask them for suggestions. However, the yoga for kids is not on the program. The classes were taught by a teacher from Tampa in the cities of Tampa and Orlando. Maybe they have the program on a trial base and have not formally integrated it into their regular schedule. I'm sorry you feel people are insulting you. I hope that is not true. Maybe a person expressed something without thinking much. But practicing yoga, whether ashtanga or other types, makes you kind mannered. And I have found that to be the character of people posting on this list. It's people helping people. "People, people who need people..." Sing it, Barbra... Cheers Arturo Bill Gray <billg Re: Teaching Kids <snip> The original writer asked if anyone has suggestions for teaching group classes to kids at her new studio. My position was that Ashtanga yoga is not the way to go. I suggested a few creative ideas that work and are fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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