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Family Yoga Dance and Drum Fundraiser

FREE! Donations optional for Silver Lane Elementary Fund, East Hartford.

January 23rd at 5:45pm
Sacred Rivers Yoga Studio Glastonbury, CT.
Call 657-9545 to register.

Yoga for Children

In today's fast paced society, with so many different ways for children to be stimulated, yoga for children provides a supportive, safe, uplifting, and non-competitive environment in which to grow. Yoga for children is an amazing gift, with benefits that will last a lifetime!

The Benefits of Yoga for Children:

• Allows creative expression
• Increases self-confidence and self-esteem
• Enhances neurological development through movement
• Increases concentration, calmness and ability to relax
• Enhances body awareness
• Fosters compassion, cooperation and connection with peers
• Increases flexibility, balance, focus, strength and coordination
• Promotes deeper connection with inner self
• Increases muscle tone for children with special needs
• Reduces anxiety and aggression with a healthy outlet for expression of energy

Yoga for Adults

Yoga strengthens the body and mind, heightens individual spirituality, and brings you into the present moment. Overall, it increases strength, balance, flexibility, focus, peace, grace, connection with self and energy, health, and well-being. When the mind is calm, the body automatically relaxes. The benefits to yoga are endless.

The Benefits of Yoga for Adults:

• Tones, strengthens, and lengthens muscles from the inside-out
• Improves posture
• Restores low energy
• Increases lubrication of the joints, ligaments and tendons
• Massages ALL organs of the body, increasing immunity
• Completes detoxification
• Reduces anxiety
• Relieves stress
• Promotes calmness
• Prevents injury
• Enhances respiratory function through breath
• Increases circulation/ blood flow
• Improves attention, focus/concentration, and memory
• Unites mind, body, spirit, encouraging a deeper understanding of self and energy