Yoga & You: The right age to start Yoga | Dr. Hansaji Yogendra

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[Music] today we have the internet we have plenty of distractions for the kids we have gadgets and there is tons of activities that they are pushed into well today more than any other time I think balance is much required for kids and a sense of uh guidance how they should lead their lives Hans G uh I have to kids and I would love for you to you know shed light on why it is most important today to catch kids young and to EMB the knowledge of yoga and give them a practice of the same well AA yoga is a way of life how to live we have to learn right from childhood how to sit stand how to eat how to walk how to do everything child is learning they are watching their parents and learning in the beginning what your parents say they don't listen or follow but what your parents do they definitely see and follow accordingly they EMB that in their life so this is the time where parents have to become like a models MH for children and they should see that parents are doing something to keep themselves healthy health is something which has to come and second parents are doing doing something to keep their mind calm so they can see parents sitting in meditation for some time or they can see that while eating food parents are eating very happily without any distractions or keeping mobile while eating or you know doing business at the time of food is not what child has seen when child sees all that yoga has already started in his life we have to see that all such things become our second nature we have to develop some healthy habits and this will happen when it is Tau from childhood the earlier the better earlier the better even from the age of five we start even teaching them officially but before five they are learning from their parents right so for a small kids we tell parents to come and learn yoga so that uh they would be in the right path children they go through quite a lot of chaotic situation ups and downs failure less marks sometimes punishment sometimes bullying some stronger one is bullying the weaker one all they have to go through quite a lot and they are very much stressed even at the age of five when they are learning AB CD how much tension they have because if they don't do this who are the parents teacher children also children also get into tension because they come and complain that somebody pulled something somebody bullied somewhere and so on so now all this life management is something which they need to learn from childhood they need to learn to handle this situation in life and this is done by learning yoga in y we say that you do your part well and don't criticize others or don't put somebody down you do your part well which child learns child focuses on his personal growth rather than complaining about something else at child age all these things could be learned much faster and it goes deeper into that system because they are very pure hearted very clean no dubious mind they don't show that they are doing something and they are not doing they are doing they they'll tell you I have seen one child who always sits and meditates for 2 minutes he's been told to do that and now he has found out that whenever he's Disturbed the friend got more marks or a friend took away his best of the things or he told teacher something wrong which he has not not done he is Disturbed first he comes home and leaves everything and sits in meditation and he calms himself down how beautiful and then he tells his parents what happened then parents and they sit and discuss now how do we go about so they would either meet the boy call something or whatever is according to situation such things a child coming home but always picking up some something and coming home um chalks are available in the classroom somebody's pen is thrown somebody's um Compass is left there and children just run the moment it is school is off this child would always come out last picking up everything from the classroom and come out and then in the house he would the mother will see that whose Compass you have brought this is not yours he says no this is nobody's I asked few children nobody's Compass this is how he behaved and parents were terrified they say that he has formed a habit of stealing he says I'm not stealing I have found it it's lost and found lost and found I have found it so this is his argument parents say why do you bring you have so many rubbers and so many Compass why are you picking up things you just leave it as it is it is not yours no he says it is nobody's so this was his argument and so the child was brought to me they said that look this is what his habit is I looked at child I said you know very well that this Compass is some of your friends you know very well he has forgotten and you have picked it up but now so you are picking it up when you are alone everybody has gone but do you think that um nobody's watching you so he tells me nobody is there in the class I'm the last person to come out so I said don't think like that somebody is watching you said no oh nobody's watching me said I'm telling you somebody is watching you who you says your God which is there within you your conscience your God is within you God is definitely watching you is it so so I said that is the thing so don't pick up because God knows you have picked up so leave that thing where it is or keep it on the table of the classroom and you just come out and instead of coming last you come out first and he changed his habit because he found that well he can't cheat like this such education has to be given to Children very innocently they want to behave little cleverly because they have seen how people are speaking lies how people are picking up things from here and there now they have started learning from world not just from parents um switch on the TV this that things are coming I'm sure a lesson like this would stay with him all his life then because it was T throughout life and now that person who has grown big he is a very good businessman he knows very well that there is nothing like black money and white money uh you have to do everything very very straightforward and systematic he is successful businessman now but he thanks me all the time that he tells me that that lesson that somebody's watching you has gone into my system and now I'm doing everything every time I feel that I'm not alone God is there with me God is my uh working partner so when he grew little big he came and these statements he heard and he's very happy about it but the point is children they need guidance from all the side and they pick up things very fast so I personally believe that that children have to be taught I mean at young age as fast as possible to mold the whole personality whole personality get molded and person is very very happy throughout his life because he has some basic values with him absolutely answer G I remember as a child visiting the yoga Institute doing camps and also you know getting some talks on ahara you know on the food aspects of it and even today if I pick up a bag of chips I'm very conscious I about it because that was kind of that thought was ingrained in my brain since I was a child and uh you know it's a lot easier for me to abstain from certain things which is not good for me than my friends who probably you know have uh just recently started on this journey so I have been a huge fan of the yoga Institute since I was a child and I'm immensely grateful for that actually because I owe my good health to the yoga Institute um the yoga Institute has kids camps during Summers they have regular classes all through the week I heavily request recommend strongly um order all the parents to send their kids to learn yoga because I know how it's swed the seed in me and I've seen many other kids and I know what an impact it had on their entire life you would be gifting them great health all their life if you do so thank you oh