Children Have Huge Potential
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM
Watch!
Jurij years old is 7 and Karina 6
If video doesn't load, try
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZLaZyMpfUI
If video doesn't load, try
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZLaZyMpfUI
Don't let the vast potential of children go unmet. Go to the playground with them. Hang with them. Tumble with them. Play movement games with them. It's gaining priceless skills and health and the best aspects that childhood offers, not losing any aspect of childhood. Ask them to show you things.
Babies have a grasp reflex that allows them to hang with their fingers, with grip equal to world class climbers. Children have the brain elasticity to easily learn many languages without an accent, to move with strength and ability.
Don't strap children into the equivalent of wheel chairs (strollers) while you lift little hand weights. Lift the kids.
I teach many of the moves in this video in my yoga and other classes. Beginners can start them with good success, if they work and try. I have had yoga instructors who come my classes, curse and storm out at the first effort, whining that it is "haaaaaaaaaarrrrrd." They claim yoga makes them strong and loving, then throw tantrums, but that is for another story.
Click the labels children and partner exercise below this post, for Fitness Fixer ideas you can try (using your brain) so that children grow with all the joy, discipline, and strength of real health.
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Labels: children, partner exercise, spirit, video/movie, yoga
1 Comments:
At Thursday, July 09, 2009 12:57:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
Hey Dr. Bookspan,
I have read many of your informative articles, as well as consulted your beneficial books. One thing that struck me is that stretches for the neck ar limited to primarily the pectoral strech and trapezius stretch. Stretches that take into account side-to-side rotation of the neck are not mentioned. Is there a reason for this? Are they useless?
Further, the trapezius stretch, at least as far as my own body is concerned, targets only the side of my neck, while I often get tender in the middle and lower portions of of the trapezius. The side of the neck is especially tight as well and sometimes when I bend to the side, the stretch seems to shift to right below the posterior deltoids.
Do you know why? Am I performing the stretch wrong? Where should the stretch be felt? Also, the trapezius is a rather big muscle and it would seem like a mis-nomer if the only portion that is targetted is the 3 or 4 inches on the side of the neck.
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