The Kids Class on Sundays

February 27th, 2013Latest News1 Comment

It was fun to watch the Kids class on Sunday. We were impressed with how many kids attend the one-hour class. Half of the students were sent upstairs to the second studio, so there were a lot more kids than these photos suggest!

The class is basically a fast, non-stop sequence of asana, all kinds of poses mixed in with each other. Very soon the yawns and bleary-eyedness disappeared. Ray and I wondered if we could’ve kept up! There were many students who knew the poses and jumped right into them on command, while newer ones followed. The little ones even attempted Sirsasana and Adho Mukha Vrkasana, with kindly help from the teaching assistants. Yoga Philosophy is taught from the get-go too. We could see why parents want to send their kids there: the kids burn off energy, they learn to concentrate, and they develop a firm foundation.

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Before class, the kids love to swing on the ceiling ropes.
It’s amazing how many kids show up at 8 o’clock on a Sunday morning!
The OM column on the teaching platform
A lot of adults go to watch the class.
The students are first arranged with the littlest ones in front and the older ones in the back.
Utkatasana second thing in the morning!
Especially for the young ones, the idea is to keep them moving rather than to make their poses super correct.
Good concentration by the gents.
Half-way through the class, the little ones and older ones switched places.
The kids knew all the names of the poses.
Name that pose!
Before they did their Sirsasana, Adho Mukha Vrksasana, and Sarvangasana, they recovered in Downward Facing Hero Pose.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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