Kids Yoga for Anatomy Awareness

By Faye Martins

If you are a parent who enjoys participating in yoga exercise at home or in a class, then make sure to get your children involved in yoga. Not only can your children benefit from yoga movements that will increase their muscle strength and flexibility, but also, your children can learn more about their own anatomy.

Preschoolers Learn About Their Knees and Elbows

You can have your children perform yoga at home, but you can also suggest this form of exercise to your child’s teacher. Preschool directors want to find fun ways for students to learn about their body parts, and with yoga, a child must understand the directions from a teacher about bending their elbows or knees for certain poses.

Improving Body Balance and Coordination

If you have a child who is slightly clumsy, then yoga can teach them how to stand, walk or run better. An essential part of yoga is aligning the vertebrae in the spine to stand upright before beginning to move the legs and arms. With frequent yoga sessions, your child’s balance and coordination will improve.

Understanding Their Lungs

In addition to improvements in coordination and balance, yoga teaches children more about their internal anatomy. An important part of yoga exercise is breathing, and your child may never have considered how their breathing affects their body. Learning where the lungs are located inside their body can help a child to understand their own emotional anxieties that lead to breathing too fast.

Protecting the Body’s Joints

Your child might not understand why they need to protect their joints with knee or elbow pads while riding a bicycle or playing soccer, but in a yoga class, a teacher can explain the importance of each joint in the body. With certain yoga poses and movements, a child can see how these types of joints work:

• Saddle

• Pivot

• Ellipsoidal

• Gliding

• Ball-and-socket

• Hinge

Learning How the Muscles Move Inside the Body

During yoga movements and poses, your child can see how some of the muscles move underneath their skin. Yoga exercise also helps to tone a child’s muscles, making it easier to notice how some muscles extend while others flex. If your child struggles with weight issues, then building muscle strength will help them to burn additional calories, helping to prevent damage to their sensitive joints.

Understanding Their Skeletal Structure

Children must listen carefully to an instructor as they explain how to move or position their legs, arms, feet and hands while participating in a yoga class. Your child may not realize that they have over 200 bones in their body until they begin to watch a teacher and other students demonstrate a difficult pose or movement.

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