| Did you know that nearly three hundred thousand | | | | toes. These are basic steps in practicing yoga. As the |
| children in the United States alone have been | | | | child progresses, they will increase the number of yoga |
| diagnosed with some form of arthritis? That is large | | | | poses they are able to participate in and begin to |
| number of kids and it continues to grow each day | | | | strengthen those core muscles and greatly improve |
| leaving parents baffled for treatment options. One | | | | their posture as well. Having poor posture is one of the |
| method of therapy that has yet to be given the | | | | leading reasons for chronic back pain. While a child sits |
| amount of credit it deserves is encouraging children to | | | | and plays a video game or while they are sitting at |
| engage in practicing yoga disciplines. | | | | their desk in school they have a tendency to not sit up |
| A child that has arthritis is limited to what activities they | | | | straight and slouch their bodies forward. This causes |
| can perform without feeling any pain. Most of these | | | | pain in the back, neck and shoulders that can result in a |
| children cannot participate in team sports and they | | | | permanent condition. By instilling yoga exercises in the |
| often times become lazy from their lack of movement. | | | | children their posture automatically begins to increase |
| When these kids begin to practice yoga exercises it is | | | | and they will start to sit up right with a flat back after |
| not enough of a cardio activity to harm them, but it is | | | | just a few weeks of yoga. The increased flexibility |
| enough of proper set of exercises to help their | | | | that yoga brings is another benefit for young children |
| condition greatly. Yoga primarily focuses on the core | | | | suffering from arthritis also. When you move your |
| section of the body. It works the abdominal muscles | | | | body into the poses a few days per week, it begins to |
| and the back as well to make them stronger without | | | | become much easier to touch your toes and to |
| the need to lift any weights, perform any resistance | | | | stretch your frame in positions you could not even |
| training or utilize any machines. You simply move | | | | attempt before. The children will start to feel relief of |
| around in the set poses and hold them there for | | | | their pains and they may even not need their |
| around a minute each pose and while you are in those | | | | medications anymore. This is the goal for any parent |
| poses you practice breathing techniques as well. The | | | | with a child that suffers from arthritis as you do not |
| breathing techniques are what relaxes the yoga | | | | want to give your child any medication that their bodies |
| student and helps them hold the poses for longer | | | | do not need. Older children such as teenagers may |
| periods of time. | | | | enjoy taking a yoga class with a friend and for the |
| Almost any child with or without arthritis can easily sit | | | | younger students getting them involved in yoga |
| with their legs folded in an Indian style position, they can | | | | exercises can be simple if you pick a fun yoga video |
| also generally bend forward and attempt to touch their | | | | just for kids. |