Breathing Exercise For Kids

Kids Yoga Breathing Exercise Sequences

• Yoga has a tremendous power to build confidence and building a connection to your breath is the foundation practice of yoga.
• Deep breath tells your body and brain to relax, reduce anxiety and promote happiness
• Breathing exercise helps them bring awareness to their five sense by deliberating focusing attention on scent, sound, visual images, and other sensory details. This enhance memory, creativity, problem-solving skills.
• It's very challenging to teach kids how to do breathing exercises. In this blog, I am describing some of very easy breathing exercise sequence which you can do with your kids.

Flower breath

• Imagine a beautiful flower in front of you
• See all the colors in your mind
• Now bring the flower close to you and imagine you are smelling the scent
• Now breath out through your mouth
• Take at least 5 round

Candle breath

• Imagine you holding a candle in front of you
• When you breathe out like you want to make candle flam wiggle, don’t want to blow out
• Take a long deep breath in and very gently blow out making candle flam wiggle
• Once more take a long deep breath in and slowly make the candle flam wiggle.
• It helps us to feel calm and peaceful.

Flower and candle breathing

•  Flower and candle breath is the best way to make kids understand what is inhale and exhale
•  Inhale or breath in - like you smelling a beautiful flower
•  Exhale or breath out like you are trying to blow out the candle flame
•  Do it 5 times

Flower breath 1

• Every living thing connected to breathe, even flower need oxygen to breath
•  You need to make a flower with your hands,(for this put your pinky and thumb together )
• As you breathe in flower petals are open and when you breathe out through your mouth, petals are closed
• You can close your eyes if you want

Relax breath or recognize breath or bear breath

•  Now sit in a criss-cross leg position or an easy pose
•  When bear hibernate, they breathe slowly
•  Pretend you are a bear and hibernating in winter
• Slow down your breath by taking a nice deep and slow breath through your nose
•  Imagine a flower in front of you, imagine how it smells, take a long sniff through your nose
•  Now breath out slowly through your nose
•  Feel how you are safe and cozy in your cave.
• Do it 4-5 times.

Feather Breath

• Hold feather out in front of you
• Take a deep breath in
• When you breathe out, use your breath to move only the soft part of the feather
• Watch it flutter with your breath

Belly Breathing

• Place one hand on your belly (just above your belly buttons) and one hand over your heart now slow breath in and out
• Do it 5 times

Balloon breathing

Take deep breaths 1,2,3, count while raising your arms up, and try to make a balloon with your arms.
As you breathe out, brings your arms back down, as you round your back, wrap your arms around yourself in a hug.

Do it 5 times

Shoulder shrug breath

• Take a deep breath through your nose and relax
• Roll your shoulder up or squeeze your shoulder to your ears as you breathe in
• Breath out through your mouth and roll your shoulder down
•  Do it seated or standing.
•  Repeat slowly

Lion breath

• Imagine you are a sleepy lion just wake up and start yawning.
• Begins on your knees then sit back on heels
•  Spread your fingers wide and press your hand onto your knees
•  Take a deep breath through your nose
• ·Open your mouth, stretch your lion tongue out and let your breath out through your mouth with a loud roar

Bumblebee breath

•  Sit up tall and let's be a bumblebee.
•  Inhale or breath in through your nose as plug each ear with your fingers
• As you breathe out make a humming sound that buzz like the bumblebee
• Make the buzz sound last as long as you can
• Do it 4 to 5 times
• Take a deep breath in and then out
• Keep going for as many rounds as you like

Deep breathing props

• Making bubbles. Blowing gently to create bubbles a good way to breathe deeply
• Use stuffed animal to practice belly breathing
• Use feather
•  Use Hoberman sphere for balloon breathing or counting breathing.
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