Should Schools Include Yoga? What Are the Benefits?

I have always thought that parents should start their kids off on yoga early in life; that parents can do yoga with their kids. This is great for kids for so many reasons: it is great family time and it helps create a healthy habit for life! So I feel it would be a great idea for yoga to be made a part of the school curriculum. It would be great for kids and it would be someth...
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International Yoga Day 2017: Special Yoga Class for Over 170 Children at Nehru Science Centre – June 21, 2017

IYD2017 - kids yoga class
On June 21, 2017, International Yoga Day, I got a chance to introduce yoga to over 170 young minds and bodies at the Nehru Science Centre, Worli. These children, from different schools and ranging from grades 6 to 8, came with an open mind and an inquisitive attitude. I tried to make yoga fun and interesting for them, while inculcating an awareness about the mind and body conne...
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Why and How to Instill Habits of Pranayam in Tweens and Teens

Kids Doing Pranayam
The good habits that we inculcate in our children can become a way of life for them; become habits for life. If you make it a habit to create healthy meals at home so your child is habituated to eating healthy, if you regularly play or go for a walk together so your child has the habit of daily exercise, if you teach your child the importance of keeping our communities clean,...
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Yoga – A Great Idea For Kids

With the summer holidays upon up, parents need to get really inventive about how to keep kids occupied, engaged and out of trouble; preferably in ways that are educative and/or beneficial. So those quilling classes you’ve been contemplating will teach them a new skill and the guitar classes may give a tone deaf kid a new musical lease in life. However, there is another mind-b...
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