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Yoga To Help Children Deal With Stress
Like all people children also suffer from stress particularly if there are problems at home. Unlike adults children can find it difficult to talk about their feelings and in that way yoga may be beneficial. In this article we will look at how yoga can help children with stress as well as the other benefits they may experience.
How is yoga for Children Practised?
There are a large number of classes available in the UK for children to practise yoga and it is important to select the right class. Yoga for children should be fun and done in playful way as well as allowing children quiet time for reflection. The use of animal poses can be incorporated allowing children to pretend to be the animal at the same time making the relevant noises. However they should be done in a way so that the children can learn the poses and develop strength, coordination and improve flexibility.
Why are Children interested in Yoga?
When people think of yoga they often think of it as an adult form f exercise that focuses on spirituality. However many parents that practise yoga will find their children are interested in it just because their parents do it. Children often want to do what their parents do and so this can begin their interest. It is also important to remember that yoga for children will be practised in a different way to adult yoga making it fun and interesting.
How can Yoga Help Children deal with Stress?
Many children will experience stress in their lives for a number of reasons such as their parents breaking up, difficulties at school and many other reasons. However children can often find it difficult to express their feelings and tell people what is going on. Through the practise of yoga the child is able to close the door on these negative feelings. They can have moments of quiet that will allow them to reflect on their lives and the exercises can help with stress release in the same way as other exercises. In the same way as adults can get genuine stress relief from yoga so can children. Even if there is no major life event for a child the regular practise of yoga can help a child to deal with day to day life.
Other benefits of Yoga for Children
Yoga can help by improving flexibility and strength in the body. In addition some of the more physical exercises can have many
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of the same benefits as other forms of exercises in terms of a child’s health. For children who feel uncomfortable in more competitive forms of exercise this may be the perfect option in improve fitness and control weight. It is also worth considering the other psychological benefits. For example it has been shown that people suffering from eating disorders can experience significant benefits from practising yoga. So by regular practise of yoga it may help your children to have a more balanced view of their lives and their own self image.
As you can see there are a large number of benefits to children practising yoga and due to the fact classes can be relatively low cost it may be a viable option. If you are looking for an after school activity for your children yoga may be something that you want to consider.
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Deep sea freediver pushes endurance to the limit – Yahoo! Philippines News
LONDON (AFP) – – Briton Sara Campbell is on a mission to stretch the limits of the human body — diving down into the murky ocean depths for minutes at a time, on a single gulp of air.
Extreme depth freedivers swim down and back as far as possible, while coping with pressure that crushes their lungs to the size of a lemon and would wreck their eardrums if they were not careful.
And the record-breaking Briton admitted it is tough. “Each dive is a phenomenal physical and mental challenge,” the 37-year-old told AFP. “Your body goes through very extreme changes.
“Your heart rate drops, all the blood comes to the centre of your body, and then that blood starts to fill the lung tissues so that the air spaces can contract even more.
“For every 10 metres (yards) that you descend, the pressure doubles, so that means your lungs halve in size. So down at 90 metres, 100 metres, they’re about a ninth, tenth of the size.”
Campbell, who shot from freediving beginner to world record holder within months, is out to break the record again and crack the 100-metre barrier in 2010.
She earned a silver medal at the World Championships in the Bahamas earlier this month with an “easy” dive of 92 metres. That has fired her up to reclaim the world records from her only rival, Russia’s Natalia Molchanova, in 2010.
One metre 50 centimetres tall (just under five feet), Campbell’s extraordinary ability has rocked the sport of freediving.
Some physiologists believe the yoga trainer from Burnham-on-Crouch in southeast England is a “natural” freediver, able to hit significant depths with little training.
Campbell believes she was born to do freediving, having a strong mammalian diving reflex, which helps mammals optimise their oxygen underwater. Through evolution, dolphins, for example, have a far stronger reflex than humans.
“It probably means I’m a little bit less evolved as a human being, I retain more of the fish gene and have less of the human gene!” she said.
Four years ago, fed up with the London rat race, Campbell moved to Dahab, a laid-back diving resort on Egypt’s Red Sea coast, to teach yoga. One of her students recommended she try freediving, given her breathing control skills.
Tired of chasing targets, Campbell resisted for a year but gave it a go in April 2006.
Hepatitis A stopped her progress after six weeks but she began training again in April 2007 and in October that year, set world records in three different disciplines within 48 hours and then claimed a world championships gold medal.
In the blue riband constant weight discipline, freedivers, using flippers, take a weight down with them to speed up the descent but have to bring it back.
Campbell’s personal best is 96 metres, a world record achieved in April in three minutes and 36 seconds under water.
She has dived 100 metres twice, but blacked out within a minute on the surface, invalidating the attempts.
Her rival Molchanova broke the 100-metre barrier in September, reaching 101 metres.
No-one else comes close to challenging the pair.
“She and I are now playing ping-pong with the world records,” Campbell said.
“It’s like the Cold War! There’s definite rivalry. It’s the two of us battling it out at the top. We’ll see what happens next year but having seen how strong my silver medal dive was I’m really fired up.
“I’m certainly not going to sit back and let Natalia push her dives very much deeper.”
Campbell enjoys stretching man’s boundaries.
“Not so long ago, medical science said beyond 50 metres it is not possible for the human being to survive.
“The exciting thing is you do a dive, you don’t know if you can make it but when you do, a door opens and you realise that actually you can go a bit further,” she added.
“Human beings have almost limitless potential and a lot of that is governed by the mind. If you believe something, you can achieve it.”
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