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Finding Peace in Yoga

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The Yoga video Shanti Generation for Youth Peacemakers is relaxing, helpful, and a good tool for relieving stress.

The video’s “main menu” has five separate choices, three of which are designed to help you relax and learn how to do yoga, and the fifth being “special features.” The first choice “Library of Poses” is, in my opinion, one of the best features of the video. In this section, the person watching is able to choose the type of yoga he or she wishes to do, whether it be “Focus,” “Energy,” or “Calm” yoga. This allows you to control the video.

The interesting thing about this video that sets it apart from other yoga instructional videos is that the people on the screen teaching the watcher are all teenagers. This is a great feature, and makes it more interesting for other children to watch, seeing as they can relate to it in this way. Therefore, I would recommend this video to people from around twelve years old and up.

This is a good video for both beginners and people with more advanced yoga skills, and for both girls and boys. In the “special features” section each of the “youth peacemakers,” or yoga instructors, are briefly interviewed. This part of the video is interesting to watch because you are able to hear the reasons for why each teen loves yoga. The two boys say that they love yoga because, not only is it relaxing, but it also helps them with sports. One of the boys has asthma, and he says that yoga gives him good breathing techniques.

The girls say that it helps them to relax and forget about any problems that they might be having. Every person, however, mentioned that it was helpful with relieving stress caused by schoolwork. This is one of the main reasons why I would recommend the video to teens, especially high school students. School is stressful for everyone, whether it is academically or otherwise, and this video is very helpful in relieving the stress that it causes.

I would give the video a 4 out of 5. There are a couple reasons for why it is not a perfect 5. For one thing, the music for most of it is a little hyper for a yoga video; however, if you chose “calm” yoga, the music does slow down a bit. Also, the instruction is a little fast, and at times hard to follow.

All in all, the video has very good instruction and is great for teaching kids to live more peaceful and stress-free lives.

Madison Friedman is a fourteen-year-old girl who goes to Rye Country Day School. She enjoys writing and playing golf, and plays on the Rye Country Day School varsity golf team.

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