Yoga and T’ai Chi for kids: healthy and fun game to develop a child’s body, mind and spirit
Imagine that your child has the skills to be perfectly focused on whatever he or she is doing and, at the same time, be completely relaxed.
Imagine that your child has the fitness, balance, and muscle tone they need to do what they love.
Imagine that your child is totally free from excessive anxiety and fear.
Imagine that your child feels safe and loved at all times and has the self-confidence to face anything.
Just like the waters of a mighty river or flood sweep away everything that stands in its way, the CHI or energy generated by the animal games, the earliest qigong practice ever created (over 2000 years ago), removes obstacles to vibrant, inner health. peace, constant love and a joyful life.
Just as a gentle, steady stream of water will clear a clogged pipe or smooth out a rough stone, a steady stream of CHI pulsing through our body keeps our arteries, veins, capillaries, and energy channels open while soothing and calming our state of mind. emotional. body.
The frolicking of animals teaches us how to be and respond appropriately from a calm center in all circumstances. Sometimes we are as soft as a light morning mist or as soft as a snowflake. Then there are times when we need to be as harsh as hail or as powerful as an avalanche.
For thousands of years, the Chinese have been using the simple exercises, focused breathing, and inner focus and concentration of frolicking animals to achieve TOTAL physical, mental, and emotional health.
Tea American Journal of Sports and Medicine(Vol III, Number II, March/April 2001) lists a number of studies showing that t’ai chi can improve concentration, focus, performance, physical and emotional balance, can lower blood pressure, anxiety and depression, can improve reactions to stressful situations, and can improve overall health by improving the immune system.
Among the benefits observed in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
Each of the various animal exercises has specific and general benefits for your child!
As your child soars like an eagle, he develops balance, lightness and agility. They cool and relax the entire body, balance the energy of the heart, gently stretch the ligaments and release tension in the spine.
Eagle exercises help instill confidence, freedom, and grace.
Squats, flying, arm and leg stretching, strutting, balance, controlled walking, keen concentration, coordination of arms and legs together, and heart-focused rest in this party will really improve Eagle Heart of your child and much more!
Pretending to be a bear will help your child develop deep-seated power.
Bear romp helps create greater leg strength, strengthen the spleen and lower back, strengthen bones, and build energy in the kidneys, which are the body’s primary source of vitality.
They naturally teach your child to go inward, stay centered, and maintain their inner priorities as they go through the world.
Assuming the persona of a bear: methodical, down-to-earth, yet full of energy inside, ready to spring into action at a moment’s notice, helps prepare your child for anything and everything.
Romping like monkeys helps develop your child’s flexibility and agility. It helps them to be resourceful, alert and agile.
Monkey games help remove blockages in the flow of blood and chi. They help prevent and harmonize the hardening of the arteries. They also help remove plaque.
They lose their bodies and joints. They sharpen eyesight and improve hearing.
Deer games help your child develop grace, eloquence, accuracy and relaxation.
They engender fluidity of movement and consciousness. They open creative channels.
They give a long stretch to the legs and spine, creating an open and expansive movement with very flexible muscles and bones. They benefit the liver and lower abdomen and open up the area between the mid-back and the atlas. They strengthen bones, joints, hips and knees.
The frolicking of the tiger is like a mighty gale-force wind in motion and like a calm evening moon in stillness. Tiger exercises help build muscle strength in your child. They strengthen the waist, muscles, lungs and kidneys.
They build courage, inner power and willpower. They help prevent winter colds.
While the chi or energy of the bear play acts on the bones (our core energy), the tiger play acts on the flowering of chi in the muscles, tendons and skin. Hand and finger strength is improved along with focus and concentration.
Frolicking like a powerful yet graceful dragon, it strengthens the kidneys. Twisting, bending and flowing like a swimming dragon stimulates your child’s endocrine system while working on the organs, muscles and skin.
As your child moves like a swimming dragon, it builds elasticity in his body, beautifies his skin, and helps his body use food.
Stretching, shaking and twisting your body like a swimming dragon opens up your capillaries and increases oxygenation and energy.
These beautiful and oh so graceful movements open the two main energy channels in your child’s body.
Moving like a gorilla can help cure disease, keep the body healthy, and build a strong body.
Bouncer games stimulate all the organs and energy channels of the body and help focus the mind through a rhythmic pounding of the body. They circulate blood and send energy from the outermost layer of skin through the body to organs, vessels, and bone marrow.
From the use of patting to prevent oxygen starvation and retardation in a baby, to a mother patting a child on the back or stomach when they are uncomfortable, or gently patting them to help them sleep, patting as a method of healing run through all of our lives.
Becoming Gorilla in the game will help your child be strong and resilient on the outside and soft and fluid on the inside.
Gorilla romp strengthens the lungs, sinuses, and throat while generating a great deal of energy, strength, and a sense of well-being.