Surya Namaskara for Children

Developing a new race of man
Surya Namaskara is a practice that allows the shaping of the human personality to take place from the early age of eight years. A child who is lucky enough to receive this type of training will have many advantages over his fellow students who have received the purely intellectual education prevalent today.

The yogic education fulfills the criterion laid down by the great physiologists and humanist, Alexis Carrel, who said, "The development of young human beings between the sixth and eighteenth years of life should take place simultaneously in the anatomical, functional organic, skeletal, muscular, physiological intellectual and emotional aspects. In none of these spheres can development occur separately. The most important of these spheres are the physiological and emotional aspects and education should begin from there. In the first place a psycho-physiological discipline should be introduced, and at the same time the principles governing interhuman relationships should be inculcated."

The above statement points to the necessity of introducing basic yogic training, which includes the practice of Surya Namaskara, to our youth in order to produce a controlled and integrated unfoldment of psychic and physical functions which would develop a new race of man. Quoting the words of the great humanist and physician, Albert Schweitzer:

"There must come a new renaissance reaching much deeper than the one which led us out of the middle ages, a great renaissance when humanity will find that ethical values are the highest truth and the most useful value. This will liberate the human race from the senseless reality in which it is now vegetating."