Example before instruction
A child first sees what the adults around them actually do.
Family Integrity · Yoga with Children
Let self-knowledge begin in childhood.
Children do not need yoga reduced to entertainment. They need adults who practise, a structure that respects their agency, and a path from movement and breath toward attention and inner work.
From Hatha to Raja, together: body → breath → senses → attention → self-knowledge.
The first teacher
The child's main teacher is the parent.
Practice is not something done to a child. The adult practises first. The child observes, joins, experiments and gradually takes responsibility for the practice.
The aim is not obedience and not a perfect picture. The aim is to create clear boundaries, real example and enough freedom for discipline to become internal rather than imposed.
Structure without coercion
Boundaries can be clear without turning practice into coercion or entertainment.
Autonomy is the destination
Guidance should gradually create a practitioner who can continue without being constantly managed.
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From Hatha to Raja
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The practice can turn inward before adulthood.
Asana gives the child a concrete body to work with. Pranayama introduces breath as an object of attention. Pratyahara begins the inward turn. Concentration and meditation are no longer foreign ideas when attention has been trained through lived practice.
Body
Movement, balance, coordination and a felt relationship with the body.
Breath
Pranayama begins to connect physical practice with attention and self-regulation.
Senses
The practice starts to become less dependent on external stimulation.
Attention
The child learns to remain with one task, one breath and one point of focus.
Self-knowledge
Practice becomes a way to notice one's own state rather than only perform for an observer.
What are we training?
Attention is a capacity. Give it something real to practise.
Different breathing practices approach regulation from different angles, but they repeatedly ask the child to organise attention, rhythm, movement and internal state.
Stay with one task
Remain with one action long enough to complete it instead of being pulled away by every new stimulus.
Return after distraction
Notice that attention has moved and come back to the breath, movement or instruction.
Shift without falling apart
Move from one instruction or rhythm to another while keeping the structure of the practice.
Pause before acting
Stop, wait, listen and respond to the next instruction instead of reacting immediately.
Hold a rhythm
Maintain a repeated breathing or movement pattern with less external prompting.
Organise body + breath + attention
Coordinate several streams of information at once and keep them working together.
Notice internal state
Recognise agitation, fatigue, loss of rhythm or growing steadiness before the parent has to name it.
Recover structure
After excitement or distraction, practise returning to a more organised state.
This is not an ADHD treatment claim.
See the researchIt is a training proposition. Research on structured pranayama, high-frequency yoga breathing, slow breathing and yoga-based programmes reports measurable changes in attention, executive function, reaction time, perceived stress and autonomic regulation. We show the studies and their limits openly.
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Technique films
See the method before you practise it.
Each technique can have its own short preview, explanation and full guided practice. Finished films are added here as the library grows.
Kapalabhati · Explanation
Kapalabhati with Children — Technique & Parent Guidance
How the parent participates, controls rhythm and posture, recognises stop signals, uses quiet observation between rounds and prepares the child for the full guided practice.
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Ujjayi Vyayama 01 · Explanation
Ujjayi Vyayama No. 1 — Breath, Balance & Progression
The method behind the practice: breath-led movement, weight transfer, progressive balance work and the shift from external guidance toward internal attention.
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Ujjayi Vyayama 01 · Full Practice
Ujjayi Vyayama No. 1 — Guided Practice
A complete practice moving from a stable base to more demanding foot positions and balance while the breath remains slow, audible, even and continuous.
Open the Ujjayi modulePractice in action
Yoga with Children is shared practice.
Archive footage of adults and children practising in the same space, with movement, breath, concentration and rest.
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Yoga with Children — asana, pranayama & meditation
A Sunday family class moving from standing work and inversions toward pranayama, meditation and savasana.
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Yoga with Children — dynamic family practice
A faster view of children and adults sharing standing postures, strength work, seated practice and concentration.
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Yoga with Children — mantra, meditation & shared practice
Opening mantra, seated concentration and standing asana show children participating inside a real shared practice alongside adults.
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Sofya & Platon — Nadi Shodhana
A quiet mother-and-son pranayama practice: breath, concentration and continuity across generations.
A serious educational method
Observe
Adapt
Structure
Release
Adapt the teaching. Do not reduce the practice to a game.
The same principle that guides the wider Prana methodology applies here: the student comes first. Age changes language, load, duration, supervision and progression. It does not require us to pretend that a child is incapable of concentration, discipline or meaningful inner practice.
Start with the child in front of you
Read attention, coordination, motivation and current capacity before deciding what comes next.
Change the task, not the dignity
Scale complexity, duration and language while keeping the practice meaningful.
Freedom needs a frame
Clear spatial and behavioural boundaries can support attention without suppressing agency.
Teach toward independence
The measure of teaching is not dependence on the teacher, but growing capacity to practise independently.
Supporting methodology
Yoga with Children: Environment, Practice, Autonomy
The book accompanies the practical Family Integrity portal: parental example, structure, observation, gradual progression and autonomy. The practice itself remains video-led where movement and technique need to be seen.
Bridge into teacher education
Teaching Across Ages · Yoga with Children
Selected principles are now being introduced into the 200-Hour Pranayama & Asana Teacher Training as part of adaptive teaching: how observation, language, boundaries, load and progression change when the person in front of you is a child. This is an educational strand inside the TTC, not a separate certification claim.
- Observe before you intervene.
- Adapt language, duration and load to age and current capacity.
- Use parent example and shared practice where appropriate.
- Progress from imitation and guidance toward independent practice.
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