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It Boosts Self-Esteem and Confidence - Yoga helps to instill confidence and to bring learning to children on an experiential level. Yoga teaches them to persevere, be patient, and work toward their goals. A yoga teacher can only offer guidance; it is the child who has to work to succeed. Therefore, when a child masters a pose, it gives him confidence and self-esteem. Yoga also provides tools for practicing compassion, mindfulness, generosity, focus, strength, and flexibility.
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It Strengthens the Mind-Body Connection - Yoga helps kids achieve a sound mind in a sound body by exercising the physical body and calming the mental spirit. As parents, we want our children to act and behave with mindfulness and with compassion, to be brave, to know love and happiness, and to find inner peace, Since the modern world moves very, very fast for children, it's not long before they feel all kinds of pressure (personal, parental, social) to keep up with everyone around them. Yoga functions as a release valve that alleviates pressure and as a foundation to nurture and develop a resilient and resourceful body, mind, and spirit.