Benefits

This pose gently massages a child’s internal organs, muscles and glands. Also relaxes the nervous system and calms the mind. It is great for very active children.

Kids yoga pose

• Stand tall with your arms by your sides. Feel your feet firmly on the floor.

• Bring your hands together in front of your heart.

• Turn one foot out, and slide it up the inside of your leg as far as you can. Imagine roots growing from your foot on which you’re standing, into the ground. Let your leg on which you are standing be strong like the trunk of the tree. Balance is easier if you find a point to focus on at eye-level. If you are unsteady, put one arm on a wall for balance.

• Now stretch your arms up like branches. Don't worry if you start to fall; just smile and start again from the beginning. Breathe in and out while in the Tree pose.

Adults yoga pose

• Stand with the feet together and the arms by your sides.

• Bend the right leg at the knee, raise the right thigh and bring the sole of the right foot as high up the inside of the left thigh as possible.

• Balancing on the left foot, raise both arms over the head keeping the elbows unbent and joining the palms together. Hold the posture while breathing gently through the nostrils for about 10 complete breaths.

• Lower the arms and right leg and return to standing position with feet together and arms at the sides. Pause for a few moments and repeat on the opposite leg.

• Hold the pose as long as you comfortably can. Repeat it two or three times on each leg.