How To Get Your Kids To Love Yoga

All yogi parents would love to see their children reap the benefits of yoga, but the surest way to get kids to run the other way is to force it on them, says Judith Hanson Lasater, an East-West psychologist and a yoga teacher. Realizing that children will rebel when forced into situations, Lasater let her three little ones come to yoga on their own. "If I had made them do yoga, I would have been missing the whole point," she says. "It’s when they choose it, with their own intention, that it really has value."

Lasater recommends making your practice part of everyday life—and a public part—so that kids can join in if they choose but don’t feel that they have to. "Do your practice or meditate in the living room," she says. "Eventually, they’ll ask to do it with you." When Lasater’s children asked to be part of her practice, she took the empowerment one step further and asked them to help lead the session. "If they wanted to do Handstands, we did Handstands," she says with a laugh. The strategy seems to have worked. All three of her grown children practice yoga, and Lasater’s daughter taught yoga while in college.

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