When kids concentrate on their breath or feel a stretch in their arms, they learn body awareness. This teaches them to keep their minds in one place, instead of all over the place.

The self-control eventually spills over to the classroom and home.  You’ll start to notice you’re not yelling as often. Homework time becomes less stressful. You start getting nice notes from teachers and principles from school.

You may still find a moldy sandwich in their backpacks here and there. Some kids are just messy. We just have to live with that.

Yoga also include some breathing technique that I talked about for meditation. Part of yoga is to focus on the breathing and what the body is doing. Most of us do not breath properly or enough. And we tend to take shallow breathe from our chest, rather than breathing fully from our diaphragm—which gives you a deep, cleansing breathe. Breathing slowly and deeply through the nose is a powerful tool to reduce day-to-day stress and calm the mind down.

Yoga not only helps with calming and focus, but most of all, confidence. Having ADHD takes a lot of confidence away from your child. Yoga helps to build confidence by trying new activities and developing new skills. When they practice the same poses and become good at it, it gives them confidence to keep going. Kids learn self-control and self-calming techniques, which helps to improve their social skill.

I have prepared 5 fun yoga poses for your new yogi to practice.

Once your child get confident with these, then help them find new poses to try. Practice the postures in the same order every time for consistency and build memory muscles.

Another great thing about yoga is that you can do it anywhere. Ready to start?

Here are a few kid-friendly yoga moves that you and your family can do right now.

It’s easy to make yoga fun because initially all the yoga moves feel silly. So just have fun, don’t worry if you’re doing it with perfect form.

Holding a yoga pose can be difficult both mentally and physically for kids with ADHD. So when they complete a pose successfully, celebrate the little victories with them.

Stand up straight with feet together touching and arms on the side. Spread the toes and straighten the legs without locking the knees. Stand as tall as possible by pushing both feet on the ground while lift through the head, making sure to face forward, keeping your head level. Hold for 10 deep breaths.

Transition from the Mountain Pose to Tree Pose to hide from your parents.  Start with lifting one leg up and resting the foot on the inside of the standing leg. You may use to hands to move your leg. Then, put your hands together into a prayer gesture. Now you know being a tree is not easy. Try to hold for 10 deep breaths, then repeat for the other leg.

Now transition from the Tree Pose to the Down Dog Pose. The tree is tired of being peed on all the time. Put your leg down from the tree pose, then bend forward until your hands touch the ground and walk your hands slowly forward until your body form a triangle with the ground. Hold for 10 deep breaths again.

From the Down Dog, you shape shift into the Sphinx pose. Drop your knees to the ground and walk your hands forward until you’re on your belly. Then lift your upper body up and rest on your elbows, just like the Great

Sphinx in Egypt. Hold for 10 deep breaths.

Now you’re going back into a human child. Scoot your body up on all fours and walk your hands backward until your butt is sitting on your legs. Then lean forward with your arms stretched above your head on the ground, while keeping your butt down. I don’t know how to explain it. If you get confused, look at the pictures. Hold for 10 deep breaths.

Schedule some yoga time every day. You’ll be surprised by what it can do for your child and your family.

Ok, there you have it…

I hope you find this information helpful. Let me know what you think and comment below. 

Remember ADHD does not doom your child to a life of under-achievement. You know your child is bright, full of potential, and deserves the best. In fact, many of the world’s greatest discoveries and inventions were made by people with ADHD.

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