What are children's yoga moves?

Yoga is a relatively healthy form of exercise. Practicing yoga regularly is very good for the body. Not only adults but children can also practice yoga. Children practicing yoga can not only exercise the body and maintain good health, but also practice body flexibility, which is very good for the body. There are also many yoga movements for children, and you can start with basic yoga movements.

Yoga Positions

Fish pose

Lie flat on your back first, support your body with your elbows, push your chest up, and touch your head to the ground. Then stretch your hands up and place the backs of your hands on the ground. Lift your feet slightly. The movement of pushing your head up can straighten and massage the respiratory tract.

Yamagata Breathing Exercise

Sit on your heels first, straighten your back and place your palms behind your head, then tilt your head back and then forward. This posture can adjust the thoracic spine, soften the head and neck, and exercise the upper back.

Swan Pose

Support your body with your hands and keep your back straight. Pull your feet up and against your back. You can tilt your head back slightly. This posture can stretch the abdominal muscles and spine and eliminate belly fat in children. However, pull your feet up and against your back according to your ability. Lift as far as you can and don't force it.

Archery

First straighten your back, then stretch your feet flat and straighten them. Use the hand on the same side to pull the foot on the same side. Straighten one foot and pull the other foot back. This posture can train the thigh and calf muscles.

Wheeled

Lie down first with your hands flat on the ground and your hips raised. Then use your hands and upper back to support your upper body. An adult can help by pulling your upper back to straighten your waist. This posture can exercise your spine and respiratory tract, while headstand can stimulate brain development.

Cat pose: Kneel on the floor with your knees hip-width apart and your hands shoulder-width apart on your yoga mat. Inhale, look up, and open your chest and shoulders; exhale, pull your abdomen inward, and bring your chin inward toward your chest. Repeat several times.

Tree pose: Focus your eyes on one point and breathe evenly, allowing your child to slowly concentrate. Stand on one leg, bend the other leg, place the sole of your foot against the inner thigh of your standing leg, point your knee to the side, and try to open your hips. Cross your hands over your head, put them together above your head, and stand for a few moments.

Tortoise pose: Sit with your legs bent and apart. Wrap your hands around your knees and hug the outside of your ankles (outside of your calves), slowly lower your body to the ground, straighten your legs as much as possible, keep your body close to the ground, and hug your hands to the outside of your calves. Repeat several times.

Before doing yoga exercises, you cannot eat too much and must fast within half an hour.

When doing yoga exercises, children should be dressed in comfortable and elastic clothes and use yoga mats.

Children's yoga exercises focus on fun. They do not require too much intensity or excessive pursuit of flexibility. Because children's bodies are still developing, the movements should be gentle.

The intensity and duration of practice vary for children of different ages. It is more difficult for younger children to calm down and stabilize, so they should not stay in one movement for too long; their muscles are not well balanced and coordinated, so the intensity of their movements should also be low.

Warriors 1

1. Open your arms to the sides and open your feet to about two shoulder widths apart, forming a "big" shape.

2. Put your hands on your waist, turn your body to the right, let the front of your body and the pelvis face the same side (front), and put your left heel on the ground.

First, lift along the body. Turn the left heel inward 45 degrees and remember to place the entire left foot on the ground.

The thigh will be stable and strong, and finally bend the right knee so that the calf is at 90 degrees with the floor.

[Supplementary knowledge]: Be careful not to let your knees go beyond your toes, otherwise it will put too much pressure on the bent knees.

3. Keep your upper body straight, and don’t lean back too much or slump forward. Inhale, open your arms to the side; exhale,

Stretch your hands straight up, with your palms facing each other or together, and slowly tilt your head back slightly, returning to the movement.