Rising Sun Kids Yoga

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I find this blissful mantra soothing and peaceful.
This year I am learning that working at anxiety/depression is as crucial and challenging to our wellbeing as identifying underlining issues and triggers.
When anxiety hits different management techniques work for different people and situation. Epsom salt bath, meditative music, nadi Shodhana pranayam (Breathing technique), sleep meditation and massage are my remedies. What are yours? It’s time to reflect on soothing technique that works for you ❤️

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Something to help us feel grounded this testing times

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My yoga dice (or dodecahedron, as I have been told 😉 ) is ready for the weekend fun yoga game!
I am excited to revise these 12 yoga poses as well as talk about chance and probability using this dodecahedron (brain yoga ?!)
Especially for those always stimulated brains that keep looking for challenges to resolve throughout the day ❤️
in case I get asked a difficult probability question, I will be staring in space, pretending to think and playing my ‘Hey, who do you think I am? A math teacher?’ card 🤣

Last Sunday I spoke to yoga students about concept of gratitude while children were meditating in ‘legs up the wall’ pose (Viparita karani is an excellent pose for relaxation and blood circulation).

Expressing gratitude goes beyond teaching children to say ‘thank you’.
When we acknowledge small comforts and experiences in our lives we learn to be grateful and appreciative of little things, which at the same time gives us positive energy.

Gratitude has a crucial role to play to our happiness and overall well-being.

As parents we all want our children to be successful grown ups, I strongly believe success should be measured in terms of being content and happy ❤️

Today we did eagle pose to work on our balance and coordination. While it was difficult for most of us to maintain balance in this pose, with practice we will surprise ourselves in the coming weeks.

We did snake pose and felt the stretch on our arms, back and shoulders.
We tried flapping fish pose as a relaxation pose and we all agreed on how relaxing it felt in that asana!

We did sun salutation following rituals of our sessions.

We played a yoga game called ‘like it, love it or leave it’ (more variations added for ‘hate it’ and ‘not sure’ poses as suggested by the students). It’s amazing how yoga game transforms as kids come up with variations to add to these games.

We worked on ‘tvamev mata’ one last time.

We ended our session with Om chanting and short guided meditation. ❤️

Last Sunday we did bird pose to work on our balance and coordination, this time focusing on how to hold the pose for longer. We worked on the bridge pose, with and without yoga block to squeeze against our thighs in order to work on our spine and leg muscles. We also learned Simhasana (lion pose) which is a great pose to let out suppressed emotions (FYI for the yogis that are future singers, apparently this asana also enhances vocal cords!)

We did 2 sets of surya namaskar and this time I watched them, correctly their postures in between.

We practiced Bhramari pranayam one more time followed by Om chanting.

They did short guided meditation focusing on breaths, rotation of consciousness and gayatri mantra.

We are all looking forward to play a yoga game based on all the animal poses we have been learning this term! ❤️

Today we learned twisted cobra, grasshopper and lizard animal poses.

We did 3 sets of Surya namaskar and the last set was done along with shloka so we knew exactly how long to take for each pose of surya namaskar. I am so proud of how efficiently each and everyone of us has adapted to this practice!

We did Om chanting, this time focusing on equal duration of Aa, U and M sound vibrations so that our last sound doesn’t end up being too short.

I explained meaning of shloka ‘Tvamev mata’ and we all practiced singing it while thinking of whoever we believe in. We will be repeating this shloka and memorising before we move onto next one.

I introduced them to ‘Bhramari’ pranayam which we will practice more this term. Humming sound vibrations of this practice works on calming the nerves and soothes them especially around the brain. It’s one of the best breathing exercise to free mind of frustration and anger.

We all shared the laughter when our humming sound came out as OM sound we had just practiced before the pranayam! ❤️

Hi folks

Here is all the detail you need of kids yoga sessions of the term, starting 18th April 2021 for ages 8 to 12.

What: 75 minutes of sessions structured around Surya Namaskar, Yoga asanas, yoga games, Om/shloka chanting and breathing practices (pranayam)/meditation.

Why Yoga for kids:

The yoga practice not only helps to keep the young ones strong and supple, but also incorporate mental activities, disciplines that help to develop attention and concentration, and stimulate the creative abilities that are latent within the child. The yoga practice creates a balance in the personality- Physical aspect, Emotional aspect, Mental aspect and Creative aspect.

Did you know?
Although benefits of yoga and meditations are immeasurable unlike academics and other skills, the biggest advantage of exposing your child to yoga and meditation is that it gives them tools for life.

Meditation allows the children to relax and discover the centre of their being. Breathing exercises and meditation enables children to be fully present and relaxed, helping them to solve personal and interpersonal conflicts through contact with inner wisdom, and lead him/her towards confident and responsible adulthood.

When: Sundays 4 pm

I can be reached at 0424990025 for registration or further info.

Today we started the session with a quick name game as we had two new friends joining with us.

We did balancing poses of tree pose and lord of the dance pose in pair, supporting our partners for balance. Balancing poses are great not only for focus and achieving balance but they also coordinate our nervous system.

We did sitting asanas of nauka sanchalana (rowing boat pose) and chakki chalanaasana (Mill churning pose) to work on our abdominal muscles.

We also tried Ha-breathing pre-pranayam practice called ‘Kashta Takshaanaa (chopping wood technique).
We tried deep breathing looking at a shape to guide us with equal inhaling and exhaling ratio.

Since it was a full moon night yesterday we did Chandra namaskar (moon salutation) to bring a little change to our sun salutation routine.

We did Om chanting in a group.

❤️

Eating with mindfulness 🧘‍♀️

This beautiful shloka is a prayer before eating food.

It’s important to understand the Mantras and pronounce them correctly, focusing on the ‘bhaav’ when we chant them.

BRAHMARPANAM with MEANING - Food (Meals / Bhojan) Prayer - Daily Hindu Sanskrit Sloka (Mantra) two verses are from the Bhagavad Git...