Yoga that promotes togetherness-International Yoga Day

In times when stress prevails and happiness has become a goal and not a vehicle that drives you to do greater in life, Yoga is the only way that lets you open your vulnerabilities to yourself and makes you realize that nothing else matters but just the memories you make with your loved ones.

Yoga is the only habit that helps you grow healthy, spiritually, and emotionally.

Parents may teach their kids a lot about life through yoga. That’s not all, though! Numerous other advantages of practicing yoga also exist. All of these are valid reasons to begin doing breathing exercises and asanas with your children.

All ages, skill levels, and capacities can practice yoga, after all. After all, it’s incredibly adaptable. How therefore can you do yoga as a family? What should you do?

Yoga has several advantages, regardless of whether you practice Hatha, vinyasa, prenatal, or family yoga. Yoga is beneficial for both parents and kids.

First, yoga helps strengthen parent-child relationships, which is a benefit to families. They can then advance to practicing mindfulness, adaptability, and teamwork after that.

Kids can learn a lot about yogic philosophy and practice through yoga. Numerous other qualities of yoga will be developed, including concentration, inner harmony, and mindfulness.

Each asana in a kid’s yoga session or a family yoga session will be modified so that the entire family can practice it.

Let’s call for a yoga party-

Ujjayi breath serves as the main melody, with Bhastrika pranayama serving as a change of tempo. Everyone, including parents, grandparents, siblings, children, and their friends, can mimic the fluid, graceful dancing motions of yoga asanas.

Especially the cutest member of your family, your dog! They rush and dance around, pleading to join in the joy. A little meditation session during the sun’s descent acts as a preservative for everyone’s joy.

People marvel at the small details when nibbles and milk mugs arrive at the gathering. A dog properly expresses his unhappiness at the bird’s trespass on their owners’ affection as it lands on the boundary wall to dine on biscuit crumbs.

The family and the entirety of creation are coming together via yoga. Sure, the dogs will pick it up too.

Anywhere, Anytime Yoga
Yoga is helpful.

We are grateful to the yoga teachers for introducing people to this joyous way of life. There are no restrictions on props, locating the ideal location, or the ideal moment to partake in a yoga party.

Instead of the green that you may have started with, aren’t you now warm and cozy?

Yoga (divine unity) may soon be brought into your nest, which you name home, through yoga (yoga asana, pranayama, and meditation).

YOGA FLOW FOR YOUR FAMILY’S MOOD AND TOGETHERNESS-

TREE POSE

This standing balance posture opens the hips, aligns the spine, and strengthens every component of the leg.

To build a kickstand with your right foot, stand on one leg and extend your right leg.

Alternatively, you can choose to balance here by grabbing your right ankle and slowly raising your right foot towards your inner thigh.

Your right foot should be pressed against your thigh with your toes pointed downward as your thigh presses back against your foot.

As if you were growing branches, extend your arms upward.

• Do not forget to balance in a tree stance on the other foot.

Fun question: What kind of tree are you? Create various tree postures using your branches to represent various tree varieties. To see if your tree topples over, have someone pretend to be a strong wind.

WARIOR POSE

This balance position helps to lengthen and strengthen the back while balancing the knees and ankles when standing.

Standing tall, progressively slant your upper body forward while maintaining a straight front. Raise a leg such that it is parallel to the ground. Remember to change your standing foot.

Funnify it: As you visualize yourself flying, make airplane noises. Then you can strike positions that correspond to everything you saw during your flight.

FROG POSE

This squatting position lengthens the spine, stretches the hips and knees, and strengthens the ankles. Kneel down and place your hands in the space between your feet as you squat.

Clap your hands collectively and push your knees apart.

Make it entertaining by hopping around on your lily pad or ribbiting like a frog to catch flies with your tongue.

HAPPY BABY

This reclining position stretches the low back, expands the hips, and opens the inner thighs. Kneel down on the floor with your back to the wall.

Grab onto the outsides of your feet or any available area of your legs. Rock and roll on your mat with your knees wide open.

Funnify it: Act as though you are a pig in mud. Or rock and roll till you take off like a rocket ship into the skies.

DOWNWARD BOAT

This balance position while sitting strengthens the core. Partners assemble in a chair facing one another and touch feet. As you hold hands, place your legs between your arms.

Kneel down with a small bend. Lift one leg off the ground first, then the other, slowly pushing one foot in front of the others.

Funnify it: Sing “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” or try rocking your boat back and forth.

DOUBLE DOWNWARD-FACING DOG

The entire body is stretched during this moderate inversion, which also soothes the nervous system.

One partner does a downward dog while the other places their palms on the ground approximately a foot in front of the dog’s hands. the dog’s hips with their feet next.

Adapt your actions so that both partners feel secure.
Make it entertaining by using your downward dog as a crawl space for family members.

COBRA

Start on your stomach, with your feet hip-distance apart and your hands by your ribcage.

Straighten your big toes and press down with all ten toenails to activate your quadriceps.

To widen the lower back, rotate your inner thighs upward.

Lifting your head and chest while gently pressing your hands down will cause your shoulders to roll back and down.

Maintain a long back of the neck and concentrate on elevating your sternum rather than your chin.

Keep your shoulders away from your ears and extend your arms straight. Keep your elbows at least slightly bent.

Release yourself back to your mat to leave the pose.

If your lower back is in any way uncomfortable or compressed, do not try it!

CHILD POSE

Seated in heels. Bend forward and bring your forehead to the floor while maintaining your hips on your heels.

Keep your hands on the floor, palms facing up, and keep your arms at your side. If this is uncomfortable, you can stack two fists and rest your forehead on them.

Press your chest lightly against your thighs.

Hold. Uncurl each vertebra one at a time as you slowly rise to sit on the heels.

Avoid this yoga stance if you have a major back or knee injury.
Avoid striking this stance if you’re pregnant.

If you have diarrhea now or have previously had diarrhea, avoid doing this pose.

TRIANGLE POSE

• Stay upright. Set your feet comfortably apart (between 3 1/2 and 4 feet).
• Put your left foot 15 degrees in and your right foot 90 degrees out.
• Now, place your right heel’s center over the arch of your left foot.
• Make sure your feet are firmly planted on the ground and that your body is evenly distributed across both feet.
• Take a deep breath in and exhale.
• Bend your body to the right, downward from the hips, keeping the waist straight.
• At the same time, allow your left hand to rise into the air as your right hand descends towards the floor.
• Ensure that your arms are straight.
• If it’s possible to do so without causing your waist to sag, rest your right hand on your shin, ankle, or the floor just outside your right foot.
• In a straight line with the tops of your shoulders, extend your left arm upward.
• Your eyes should be softly focused on your left hand as you keep your head neutral or turn it to the left.
• Make sure your body is bending sideways, not forward or backward. The chest and genitalia are exposed.
• Maintain stability while stretching to the fullest. Continue inhaling deeply for a long time.
• Relax your body more and more with each exhalation.
• Bring your arms to your sides, lift yourself up, and straighten your feet as you inhale.

Waterfall (Viparita Karani)

Lay flat and get comfortable. Put your body in such a way that your tailbone is pointing at the wall’s base.

When your hips are as close to the wall as they can be, start walking your feet up the wall until your body is shaped like an L.

Adjust the position until it feels comfortable; place a pillow under your head or a towel at the base of your back.

• Yoga positions for Viparita Karani, which require a little inversion, should not be done when you are menstruating.
• If you’re expecting, stay away from doing this sleep yoga.
• Avoid this pose if you have high blood pressure or eye conditions like glaucoma.
• If you consistently have foot pain while doing this sleep yoga pose, try bending your knees and contacting your soles to bring your heels as near as you can to your pelvis.
• For optimum Viparita Karani advantages, people with back and/or neck issues should either refrain from practicing the asana or only do so in the company of a trained instructor.

Other Yoga asanas that you can incorporate into your daily family routine-

1. Handstand against the wall

2. Savasana-

• Best of all! You know why. Just lay down with your family in silence!

3. Mountain Pose

4. 1 to 3 Sun Salutations (including Upward and Downward-Facing Dog)

5. Cat and Cow

Yoga is a way of embracing yourself, the bond you share with your loved ones, and the comfort that togetherness gives.

Especially when there are kids in the home, life may be incredibly stressful.

While it is well known that a personal yoga practice has many advantages for the individual, a family yoga practice has the ability to strengthen bonds between parents and children while also bringing additional advantages such as increased serenity, a sense of spiritual connection, and enjoyable activities to the daily routine.

Here are ideas on how to make your family’s family-friendly activity your cherished yoga practice.

Set the Bar High

The worst thing you can do, first and foremost, is add yoga to your list of errands as yet another thing to do. Try not to pressurize your kids into practicing with you if they show any reluctance or if you are working with toddlers who have a shorter attention span.

Create a schedule

Rituals and routines are very important to children (and adults). For this reason, create a regular yoga routine while being open-minded about where and when it occurs.

Assuring that each member of the family gets their own yoga mat — even the little ones — and incorporating the setting up of the mats and tidying up of the space into the mindfulness practice.

Lighten up and enjoy yourself

Give up all notions of what a yoga practice entails when you include your family and kids.

Laughter, conversation, movement, and imaginative play are frequently included in family yoga (and should be).

Children enjoy imitating the animal sounds that some stances (such as the horse, cobra, dog, and cow) are named after.

Describe events that occur in tandem with the poses (“The Cobra slithered up the Tree, and then an Eagle flew out!”).

Yoga and Laughter- Healthy Recipe for a Healthy Family!