Top 5 Ways How Yoga Helps Teenagers

Posted on May 26, 2008 in Latest News

Yoga is said to be an effective cure for the hyperactive teenagers. Teen age is a very delicate phase, a make or break period, which when not handled properly leads to lot of troubles in the teen’s adulthood.

Here are ways how yoga proves to be useful.

1) Puberty and Growing up Issues: With puberty comes, change in body structure which in turn leads to a demand of wanting to look good. Also, it as this phase that pimples sprout up and the teenager is faced with lot of self pity and depression.

How Yoga Helps: Yoga techniques like the lolasana and navasana, help the child focus on their inner strengths and qualities, developing a sense of confidence in the child.

2) Stress: A teenager is bombarded with lots of stress to look good, study well, peer pressure, maintain a boy friend/girlfriend and so and so forth.

How Yoga Helps:  Yoga techniques like shavasana and vamangasana, help the child relax, by relieving lot of stress factors. The child’s focus is shifted from external factors and is channelized towards inner hidden strengths. Once the child understands what he/she is capable of doing, the child tends to relax and be more confident.

3) Self- Esteem: Due to some incident or experience the child comes to believe that he/she is incapable of anything. Many of the children tend to build a wall around themselves. They are introverted and shy away from doing any activity.

How Yoga Helps: Yoga techniques like suptkurmasana and bhadkonasana, help the child overcome their fear of failure. The child’s sense of awareness and consciousness expands and the child understands that its okay to not be perfect at all times.

4) Self- Control: This is a very important aspect a teen needs to learn in order to come up in life. Extreme behaviors like over submissiveness or rebellion are deviations from normal code of conduct.

How Yoga Helps: Yoga techniques like the halasana and karnapidasana, help the child become aware of themselves. This helps them regulate their behavior.

5) Relaxation: Children today try to seek relaxation in various unhealthy forms like drugs, hard drinks, smoking etc. All these indulgences are done without the parent’s knowledge. These indulgences further turn into habits and tend to ruin a teen-agers life and future.

How Yoga Helps: Yoga techniques like the pranadharna and nispadbhava help the children relax, in a healthy and meaningful manner. It further leads to development of the overall personality of the individual, which is a double bonus.

Yoga has many other unseen benefits, which will help your child grow beautifully. As your child keeps practicing the asanas you, yourself will notice the change in behavior of the child. Before you enroll your child in for yoga classes, make sure that the instructor is a qualified one with the necessary knowledge of all the Asanas.

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