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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

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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.

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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....

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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!

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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.

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