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Posturing Healthy Children
Written By: Chad Garner - Yoga Highlands | Issue: 2020/04 - April
Families living on the Plateau have many natural elements for children to thrive. Room to roam in the forest provides a needed release for most all of us to balance out the tension of our
sedentary society.
Some of the most deserving people of bodywork are children. Even in the most well-meaning of families, children exhibit some of the same postural stress as
their caregivers.
You may wonder, ”how could a child have strain and tension?’’
As innocent and resilient as children are, their ability to carry and suppress tension is real. Children now take in far more digital information than children ever have before.
This can manifest as fatigue, malaise, irritability, confusion and depression.
During childhood, we make the body we will inhabit for life – the physical form, the brain, the organs. Early injuries and stressful situations can turn into the chronic pain cycles and illnesses of adulthood.
Helping children can alter this in a positive way when guiding them in how to feel into their own skin, joints, muscles, and connective tissue. This can and often does lead to better living.
We all know the potential for children to learn is tremendous. Children’s body pain and strained gait patterns change rapidly with therapeutic bodywork.
Finding a practitioner sensitive to a family’s needs is a good find, but even then children may be shy or unable to describe the nature of what exactly they are feeling.
Giving new sensory language is a great benefit of integrative mind-body therapy and this may create a path of happiness for a child to awaken to their full potential.
by Chad Garner & Ashby Underwood, Yoga Highlands, Advanced Practitioners of The Ida P. Rolf Method of Structural Integration
