Online Yoga v Live Classes
Do you and your children love online yoga classes like Cosmic Kids and Yoga with Adrienne?
Is this the answer to all your yoga practise needs?
Yes, there are great benefits to online yoga:
Introducing children to yoga, with engaging and animated content
Allowing you to explore different types of yoga class and yoga teachers
Being able to attend classes when you can’t get to a ‘live’ class, for example during lockdowns
And in case you’re wondering if I have any favourite apps, I particularly like Yoga International and Sadie Nardini’s Fit and Fierce Club.
BUT…
There are downsides too:
Some children’s yoga online classes are filled with animation and the pace of classes are fast, which can be over stimulating, the opposite of what we aim to achieve through yoga
These classes can pile on the screen time too.
Online classes can’t interact and engage through discussion of yoga values and principles
It isn’t possible to adapt to the abilities and needs of the group
You can’t build a community and have fun through partner and group yoga
Can you bridge the gap?
There are things you can do to make online videos work for you and your family:
Have some fun and do yoga together with your children, so you can break the screen-time ‘attachment’
Take the video at your own pace, pausing the video to slow things down and practise poses on both sides to build strength, flexibility and balance equally
Access the meditative and philosophical resources on yoga apps to maintain a balanced and nurturing practise for body, mind and spirit
Use online yoga as an introduction to yoga and find a teacher or teachers that resonate with you
Technology has certainly given us many more options when it comes to being able to engage with and maintain our yoga practise and other forms of exercise, although there is no substitute for real people, real relationships and real connections.
Anjli Patel
Founder, Storyteller, Yoga Facilitator
World of Children’s Yoga
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