Yoga for childrenStretching and strengthening exercises for 3-11 Years old

Yoga for kids and meditation-Lisjcha Pretorius is a my case study she is a yoga teacher and inspired me to write this in my presentation.

• Focusing on ADD

• Adults and children living with attention deficit disorder know the daily struggles of hyperactivity, social isolation, and drug side effects. But yoga may help control these symptoms as well as reduce long term dependendance on medication.

• Yoga for children kids with HIV / Aids

• Most of her notes come from lectures given by shanti Kaur or from personal discussion with her or from my own experience.

• When working with sick students what the teacher brings her practise, presentences and prayer. What the student brings is her own biology, beliefs and behaviour.

• I focus on the following when I work with children with HIV/AIDS:

• Breath

• Lymphatic system

• Thymus and heart centre

• Electro – magnetic field

• Mantra and meditation

Breath

Breath

The HI virus is an anaerobic i.e it does not thrive to an oxygen rich environment.it is there fore very useful for the kids to do a lot of pranayama exercise. It is therefore very useful for the kids to a lot of pranayama exercises. Also

because the flow of pranayama exercises. Also, because the flow of prana is so crucial to the health of all of our

organs and the body as whole, I feel that the kids gets a lot of benefit from it. I teach long deep breathing ( balloon) filling up and also sleeping on each other tummies. I then tend to teach then a four part inhale and one exhale (for anxiety).

We have also done 8 and 4 part breath. We also use panting ( doggies) and lion roars with exercises.

Lymphatic system

Lymph • Naturally ,the whole of the class no matter which yoga exercise you do, will benefit this aspect of the immune system.

• Lymph nodes are found in found in great numbers in the numbers in the arm pits and also in the navel area. We do some navel pluming often with a HAR chant. We also do yoga that involves placing fingers in the arm pits and moving the ups and down ( like a bird).

• It is essential that the kids do a lay out in order for the yoga to take effects.

• I focus on the flow of lymph as well as working on the areas where the

lymph nodes.

• Are focused.

• As lymph only moves with muscular movement, exercise is essential for

these kids. It is important to get them moving . Amongst other

things, we always do a jumping the froggy movement.

Thymus gland

• any exercise for the heart centre should affect the thymus gland. We do a lot of arm movement exercise. More specifically, I sometimes get do a lot of arm movement exercises. More specifically, sometimes get the kids to lightly tap on the chest to affect the thymus ( we do a “knocking on the door of the heart “theme here.)

Naturally, the yoga is generally helpful for the glandular system as a whole ( the guardians of our health).

ELOCTRO MAGNETIC FIELD

• This would benefit the overall heath of the kids and improve their ability to ward of opportunist infections. The kids love bundle rolls arm swinging exercise.

Mantra meditation

• My experience in working with these kids has led me to con clued that there is something very special going on with them.

• I see it in the effect they have on the people with whom they come into contact. They seem (and it has been the case with me ) to have a profoundly healing effect on people`s live. Ironically, we come into contact with the kids thinking we are ones that are doing the helping !! I like to work with the kids in a way that acknowledges the power and love that they carry and we would often do this with short meditations that focus on the mantra Sat Nam and with the heart centre.

• These kids do have a gravity about them because of the depth of their experience in being around death and sickness to the degree that they have. They all know a lot of kids that dead. We acknowledge those kids in the class with a song I wrote that include all the names of the dead kids as well as with the mantra `Akaal~.WE do a healing circle for the people that they know that are suffering in any way, using the mantra “ RA MA DA SA”.

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