As you might know, sweating is a great way to burn calories and rid your body of unwanted toxins. But how do you sweat when you’re injured, or unable to exercise?

Infrared saunas help your body release a number of toxins, including heavy metals like mercury and lead, and environmental chemicals. The benefits don’t stop there. With infrared sauna technology, you can also lose weight, relax, relieve unwanted pain, increase your circulation, and purify your skin.

Detoxification

Sweating is one of the body’s most natural ways to eliminate toxins, making it a crucial part of detoxification. When compared to traditional Swedish saunas, infrared saunas allow you to eliminate about seven times more toxins.

Relaxation

Infrared sauna therapy promotes relaxation by helping to balance your body’s level of cortisol, your body’s primary stress hormone. The heat generated by the sauna will also help to relax muscles and relieve tension throughout the body, allowing you to relax and de-stress.

Pain Relief

If you suffer from muscle aches or joint pain, infrared saunas can relieve this form of inflammation by increasing circulation and relaxing your muscles.

Weight Loss

The heat generated by an infrared sauna will cause your core temperature to increase, which can also lead to an increased heart rate — the same increase in heart rate that you experience when exercising. When your body has to work harder to lower your core temperature or keep up with an increased heart rate, your body will burn more calories, resulting in weight loss. An article, titled Effect of Sweating, in the Journal of the American Medical Association concluded that a 30-minute infrared sauna session could burn roughly 600 calories.

Improved Circulation

As the heat from infrared saunas increases your core body temperature, your circulation will increase along with it. Consistent infrared sauna sessions, especially in the middle-infrared level, can stimulate blood flow, improve muscle recovery, and decrease pain and inflammation after intense exercise.

Skin Purification

Infrared sauna technology can help purify your skin by eliminating toxins from your pores and increasing circulation, resulting in clearer, softer, and healthier-looking skin.

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Researchers suggest that children under the age of 6 are developmentally less capable of:

1. Thinking about an event in its entirety;
2. Selecting from a menu of possible behaviors in response to any new, interesting, or anxiety-inducing event;
3. Comprehending an event separate from their own feelings; and
4. Modifying their physical reactions in response to change in stimuli

Zegans (1982) theorizes that stress response is experienced in 4 distinct stages:

1) Alarm then physical reaction;
2) Appraisal, as a child attempts to make meaning from the event;
3) Searching for adaptation and coping strategies; and finally

4) Implementation of a strategy or strategies.

Yoga teaches how to intervene in stages 2, 3, and 4. It creates resilience to prevent future chronic stress, heals past stress.

To children, when something bad happens, its a disaster and will last forever.

They lack sense of proportion and duration. Stress is the body’s general response to any intense physical, emotional, or mental demand placed on it by oneself or others.
Stressful:

• Racing to meet a deadline
• Dealing with a difficult person
• Earning a poor grade

Also Stressful:

• The excitement of playing a lively game
• Falling in love, (getting a crush or special attachment to another child or adult)
• Being selected to join a special program/ get an honor.

Anything can be a stressor if:

• It lasts long enough
• Happens often enough
• Is strong enough
• Is perceived as stress

School is your children’s job. Students closely link their identities to excellence and achievement. Failure, or even the perception of failure, seriously threatens their self-esteem. Academic and social pressure are 2 big stressors.

There is no way to measure the extent of childhood stress. Health officials do not gather statistics, as they do for diabetes or cancer. But there are certain indicators.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that in 2005 a startling

• 17 % of high school students contemplated suicide in the previous year
• 8 % tried to kill themselves.

From 1980 to 1994, the incidence of asthma among 5-to-14-year-olds increased by 75 percent.

The best predictor of how a child will cope with stress is how the parents/role models cope.

Factors That Help Prevent Stress:

• Good nutrition, wellness, and exercise. Time to relax.
• Positive problem solving and coping skills.
• Close, supportive relationships at home and school, with peers and adults.
• Clear expectations.
• Permission and ability to learn from mistakes.
• Consistent, positive discipline.
• Ability to express feelings appropriately.
• Feeling physically and emotionally safe.
• Time to do recreational activities.

How Parents/Role Models Can Help

• Be aware of your child’s behaviors and emotions.
• Be available and open to talk with your child when they are ready. If family circumstances are contributing to the stress, be willing to answer questions honestly and calmly.
• Teach and model good emotional responses.
• Encourage them to tell you if they feel overwhelmed.
• Encourage physical activity, good nutrition, and rest.
• Teach your child to problem solve.
• Remind your child of his or her ability to get through tough times, particularly with the love and support of family and friends.
• Use encouragement and natural consequences when poor decisions are made.
• Help your child select appropriate extracurricular activities and limit over- scheduling.
• Make your child aware of the harmful effects of drugs, alcohol, and promiscuous sex before experimentation begins.

Adapted from: “Stress in Children: Strategies for Parents and Educators,” Ellis P. Copeland, Helping Children at Home and School II: Handouts for Families and Educators, NASP, 2004.

The full handout is available online at http://www.nasponline.org/families

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A meditation movement for children is emerging in schools, clubs, churches, Yoga studios and community centers. Various reports are appearing in newspapers, magazines, books and other media touting the benefits of child meditation.

Sarah Wood facilitates child meditation and in her book Sensational Meditation for Children, explores the many advantages of teaching children to
meditate. Sensational Meditation for Children contains various meditations that parents can use to guide their children through the process at home.

Teachers who build meditation into lesson plans report their classroom environments being more peaceful and attribute this to their students’ ability to express compassion to each other, according to Wood.

Therapists have told Wood that meditation reduces test anxiety, builds positive peer relationships and enhances anger management skills. Scientists have found that meditation decreases blood pressure and helps other physical functions.

Parents say meditation raises their children’s self-esteem, helps them relax in the doctor’s office, wind down at bedtime and stay healthier, notes Wood. Children say meditation helps them “prepare for tests and sports events, as well as improves their relationships with their friends, parents, brothers and sisters.” Other children tell Wood they enjoy meditating because it makes them “feel good when they are sad” and because it’s fun.

Guiding your child in the process of meditation is not only good for the child, but offers parents rewards as well. Seeing their children at peace within themselves can be empowering to an adult. Knowing that they’ve contributed to their child’s spiritual growth is immensely gratifying.

“The transformation we as adults experience when we become partners in learning with our children” is exhilarating, says Wood, who also observes “learning a meditation practice is a journey in growth, whether it is spiritual, emotional or mental.”

Meditating with your older children can bridge the emotional distance that can develop between a parent and child. For younger children, the process might be able to ward off the onset of child rebellion and build strong connections between families.

Children can start meditating by the age of five, states Wood. She reminds us that “meditation is an adventure just the blink of an eye away” and is for any child who “dares to journey into his incredible imagination.” Meditation should be fun for a child and is a time to “laugh and giggle, sing or shout for joy.” Because of the ease with which a child is able to meditate, it can be done in almost any setting— classroom, swing set or “in a tent made of couch cushions and blankets.”

Research shows teaching meditation to children can only benefit them. Meditation is non-denominational and though it can be considered a spiritual practice, follows no religious guidelines. Meditation is a win-win experience for children and their parents and has positive consequences that will last a lifetime.

By Pamela Heyer Santore, Certified Child Meditation Facilitator pesantore@hotmail.com

Kidding Around Yoga

Kidding Around Yoga is stress reduction. For children play is their language, it’s how they learn. KAY teaches Yoga as play. You can teach kids how to use Yoga/play in difficult situations.

General Suggestions:

• Encourage physical activities.
• Take a stretch break, a Yoga study break.
• Teach children that mistakes are ok in poses (and life).
• Everyone makes them, including you.
• Teach coping with difficulties: Stop, breathe, stretch.
• Tell stories about dealing with stress.
• Make up a story with asanas about coping.
• Give back rubs and hugs.

Teach Relaxation Skills:

• Have some routines in the class, particularly around relaxation. The more ADD or ADHD, the greater the benefit of the routine.
• Different helpful interventions: count backwards; tense and release your muscles; secret garden; play with play dough; dance; chant, “Shake it up baby” shake out tension.

Breathing Practices:

• Breathe out fully 3 times.
• Breathe out bad feelings, breathe in good feelings (breath out sadness, in cheerfulness with imagery)
• Breathe out pain, breathe in health (with imagery)
• Before a tough decision, breathe until you feel good again, then make a decision
• Use bubbles to teach children that slow, even breathing can relieve anger and stress. Children learn quickly that if they blow too hard or too softly, they will not produce bubbles. But steady breaths will produce a nice stream
• After the youngsters have mastered bubble blowing, ask them to practice once or twice a day, first with bubbles and then without. Instructs them to blow imaginary bubbles when they are angry or upset.
• If you’re stressed while with children, you can say, “Help me blow bubbles”. Role model good stress release.

Meditation:

• Find the quiet place inside
• Imagine a favorite place to be and visit that place in your mind (can be the secret garden)
• Repeat “Peace begins with me”
• Raja Yoga Teachings for Children’s Stress Release

1) Cognitive restructuring can teach us to change the root cause of stress: the mental interpretation that a circumstance is somehow dangerous to our well being.

• We are a spiritual being “riding around” in a body-mind, like a car. This is the basis of Raja Yoga/ Integral Yoga.
• It can be taught through deep relaxation, meditation, and stories.
• Yoga can teach children to take back their power over their own happiness.
• You can choose happiness inside no matter what’s outside (tell stories— age appropriate)

2) Spiritual teachings from Raja Yoga that reduce stress:

• A perfect act is one that does good for someone, and harm to no one.
• It’s all for good. It’s all a movie.
• The golden rule (10 commandments, yama-niyama, basic ethics).
• What’s the problem right now? Where’s the joy/peace now?
• The “4 locks and keys”—good for dealing with interpersonal troubles.
• Friendliness to the happy
• Compassion toward the unhappy
• Delight in the virtuous

3) Disregard (indifference) to the wicked (mean, hurtful).
Use spiritual stories from the world traditions. Look for children’s versions, like Enlightening Tales.
– Two stories from Vedic culture (the ancient origins of Yoga, Hinduism and Buddhism):
– The Ramayana is a great adventure story, and teaches morality for all ages.
– The Mahabharata, (includes The Bhagavad Gita) teaches spiritual truth amidst war.
– Fairy tales often have a moral that you can discuss with children.

4) To children, when something bad happens, its a disaster and will last forever.

• Teach kids everything passes. It’s ok and it can be like a movie—an adventure. What’s Now?? What’s next?
• Expect the opposite of the current situation to come around in time.

5) Create as much order as possible in your Yoga class. Routines help children feel secure and comfortable.

• Have some basic routines of poses, stories, relaxation, and meditation.
• Keep the structure of class similar, even if content varies (e.g., there’s always an Asana section, even if postures vary).
• Keep the relaxation the same as much as possible

Swami Vidyananda, Copyright 2011