5 días de retiro de yoga para aprender a enseñar niños en India

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Nowadays, Namaste Yoga Farm has seen children highly equipped with technological gadgets. Parents also encourage their children to be good with technology, which is not a bad thing, but at the same time, a child should also be encouraged to play outdoors and spend time in nature, as these activities help a child to evolve and grow.

Yoga presented in a child's language can help counter the stress experienced by little ones living in a hurry-up world. Learn the benefits of teaching yoga for kids. Children live in a hurry-up world of busy parents, school pressures, incessant lessons, video games, malls, and competitive sports. You usually don't think of these influences as stressful for your kids, but often they are. The bustling pace of your children's lives can have a profound effect on their innate joy - and usually not for the better.

Yoga can help counter these pressures. When children learn techniques for self-health, relaxation, and inner fulfillment, they can navigate life's challenges with a little more ease. Yoga at an early age encourages self-esteem and body awareness with a physical activity that's noncompetitive. Fostering cooperation and compassion- instead of opposition - is a great gift to give to your children.

Children derive enormous benefits from yoga. Physically, it enhances their flexibility, strength, coordination, and body awareness. In addition, their concentration and sense of calmness and relaxation improve. Doing yoga, children exercise, play, connect more deeply with the inner self, and develop an intimate relationship with the natural world that surrounds them. Yoga brings that marvelous inner light that all children have to the surface.

When yogis developed the asanas many thousands of years ago, they still lived close to the natural world and used animals and plants for inspiration - the sting of a scorpion, the grace of a swan, the grounded stature of a tree. When children imitate the movements and sounds of nature, they have a chance to get inside another being and imagine taking on its qualities. When they assume the pose of the lion (Simhasana) for example, they experience not only the power and behavior of the lion but also their own sense of power: when to be aggressive, when to retreat. The physical movements introduce kids to yoga's true meaning: union, expression, and honor for oneself and one's part in the delicate web of life.

Learn how to teach children

Yoga with children offers many possibilities to exchange wisdom, share good times, and lay the foundation for a lifelong practice that will continue to deepen. All that's needed is a little flexibility on the adult's part because, as Namaste Yoga Farm quickly found out when they first started teaching the practice to preschoolers, yoga for children is quite different than yoga for adults.

Six years ago, Namaste Yoga Farm had their first experience teaching yoga to kids at a local Montessori school. They looked forward to the opportunity with confidence. But after two classes with a group of three-to-six-year-olds, they had to seriously reevaluate their approach. They needed to learn to let go (the very practice they had been preaching for years) of their agenda and their expectations of what yoga is and is not.

When Namaste Yoga Farm began to honor the children's innate intelligence and tune in to how they were instructing me to instruct them, they began to co-create their classes. They used the yoga asanas as a springboard for exploration of many other areas - animal adaptations and behavior, music and playing instruments, storytelling, drawing - and their time together became a truly interdisciplinary approach to learning. Together they wove stories with their bodies and minds in a flow that could only happen in child's play.

How you can benefit from teaching yoga for kids

If you're planning to teach yoga to kids, there are a few general things to know that will enhance your experience. The greatest challenge with children is to hold their attention long enough to teach them the benefits of yoga: stillness, balance, flexibility, focus, peace, grace, connection, health, and well-being. Luckily, most children love to talk, and they love to move - both of which can happen in yoga. Children will jump at the chance to assume the role of animals, trees, flowers, warriors. Your role is to step back and allow them to bark in the dog pose, hiss in the cobra, and meow in cat stretch. They can also recite the ABCs or 123s as they are holding poses. Sound is a great release for children and adds an auditory dimension to the physical experience of yoga.

Children need to discover the world on their own. Telling them to think harder, do it better, or be a certain way because it's good for them is not the optimal way. Instead, provide a loving, responsive, creative environment for them to uncover their own truths. As they perform the various animal and nature asanas, engage their minds to deepen their awareness. When they're snakes (Bhujangasana), invite them to really imagine that they're just a long spine with no arms and legs. Could you still run or climb a tree? In Tree Pose (Vrikshasana), ask them to imagine being a giant oak, with roots growing out of the bottoms of their feet. Could you stay in the same position for 100 years? If you were to be chopped down, would that be okay? Would it hurt?

When they stretch like a dog, balance like a flamingo, breathe like a bunny, or stand strong and tall like a tree, they are making a connection between the macrocosm of their environment and the microcosm of their bodies. The importance of reverence for all life and the principle of interdependence becomes apparent. Children begin to understand that you and they are all made of the same stuff, just in different forms.

Daily schedule

Day 1

• 15:00 Arrival and welcome drink

Day 2

• 08:00 Breakfast
• 11.00-13:30 How to start. Main differences between yoga for adults and yoga for children. How to teach a classical yoga lesson to children.
• 13:30 Free time

Day 3

• 08:00 Breakfast
• 11.00-13:30 Include yoga in stories, dos and don'ts
• 13:30 Free time

Day 4

• 08:00 Breakfast
• 11.00-13:30 Include yoga in games, "let's play 'n have fun"
• 13:30 Free time

Day 5

• 08:00 Breakfast
• 12:00 Departure

Note: In-house yoga teachers, guest teachers, and schedule are subject to change without prior notice.

Gokarna is a town on the Arabian Sea, in the southwestern Indian state of Karnataka. A popular pilgrimage destination for Hindus, it’s known for sacred sites like Mahabaleshwar Temple, which has a shrine dedicated to the deity Shiva. Nearby, Koti Teertha is a temple tank where devotees wash in the holy waters. The town is also home to beaches such as palm-lined Gokarna in the center, plus Kudle and Om farther south.

Namaste Yoga Farm is an oasis of peace just three minutes' walk from the golden sands of Kudle Beach and the famous Rama temple / Shiva cave of Gokarna. 15 minutes in either direction, you reach Om beach or Gokarna beach.

Moreover, Ayurvedic treatments are available from Dr. Ratan Singh, just 200 meters from Namaste Yoga Farm toward Gokarna. The following therapies are offered: Ayurveda, naturopathy, traditional Chinese medicine, and Schuessler Salt and Bio Mineral Salt treatments.

Nearby places

• Ayurvedic treatments, 200 meters
• Gokarna beach - 15 minutes
• Kudle Beach - 3 minutes' walk
• Om Beach - 15 minutes

• Chilling aside the fish pond
• Cycling
• Exploring coastline by scooter
• Getting Ayurvedic massage
• Going on boat trips
• Going on morning walks and adventure hikes
• Going to art classes
• Kayaking tour
• Playing badminton and beach rackets
• Playing chess and backgammon board games
• Sightseeing tours
• Sunset boating
• Visiting Cotigao Wildlife Sanctuary
• Visiting Half Moon Beach for a swim
• Visiting Yana falls and caves
• Watching movies

• 3 days of daily 2.5-hour yoga teaching
• 4 breakfasts
• 4 nights accommodation
• Belts
• Complimentary bikes to explore the surroundings
• Mats
• Polster
• Probs
• Tax (GST) or local service charges
• Use of linen and towels
• Water and other drinks

• Tourist visa for India
• Airfare
• Health insurance

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