ADAPTING THE YOGA CHAKRA FOR CHILDREN

Bahiranga yoga: 

Hatha yoga is for the body and prana; raja yoga for the mind; and kriya yoga to go through the awakenings in consciousness and ultimately experience the luminosity of the self from consciousness to spirit. Hatha yoga is for annamaya kosha and pranamaya kosha; raja yoga is for manomaya kosha; and kriya yoga is for vijnanamaya and anandamaya kosha.

Body, mind and spirit are covered in these three yogas. They allow you to explore yourself, they allow you to find equilibrium within yourself. They allow you to explore and awaken the dormant potential and prana shakti within yourself. They make you aware of the transformative process that you go through in life with sincere application of yoga.

It is not just random performance, hatha yoga, raja yoga and kriya yoga represent the physical, mental and spiritual disciplines.

Antaranga yoga: 

The expression of these three yogas happens in the inner yoga, in jnana yoga, bhakti yoga and karma yoga. 

With karma yoga you learn to act in a way that every day what you do is done as if for the first and the last time in your life and you give your best. Every moment leads you to a new experience of participation and involvement in karma.

Bhakti yoga involves filling life with positivity. You express the beautiful aspect of your nature, the positive and the uplifting aspect of yourself. 

True jnana yoga is realizing how to apply the wisdom, how to use the understanding to create a better you and a better world in which there is harmony and union with the cosmic and the inner powers.

The purpose of inner yoga is to manage traits that are inherent and genetically embedded in your personality and nature.

Children do imbibe the spiritual qualities and it is not necessary that you give them lessons on yoga, lessons on spiritual life. Give them the yogic atmosphere.

—Swami Satyananda Saraswati