{"id":781,"date":"2025-09-16T12:30:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balanceyog.com\/?p=781"},"modified":"2025-09-16T12:30:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:30:25","slug":"krida-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balanceyog.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/16\/krida-yoga\/","title":{"rendered":"Krida yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Games play an important part in creating awareness, concentration and attention. Games (Krida) helps in bringing these abilities and the games itself turn into Yoga, called Krida Yoga. To Sum up if we keep constant awareness while playing, which in turn will bring love, harmony, group dynamics, peace and bliss. The games described in this lesson do not require any variety of equipments or expenses. The only apparatus used is body-mind. Different actions of the body are utilized and the games are formed. Others can easily prepare new games or change them, based on single or combination actions. In this lesson you are going to learn about some Yogic games, which will help you to develop awareness, concentration and attention abilities. Here are some of the best yogic games of Awareness, Speed, Creativity and Group Co-ordination that will naturally improve your Memory, IQ and Creativity skills..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Games like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Namaste<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Mandal Kho<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2022 Train Race<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2022 Flag Race<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>1\/Namaste<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 All players will form a circle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2022 One of them &#8216;X&#8217; will run around the circle clockwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 While running he will touch one of the players say &#8216;Y&#8217; on the back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 &#8216;Y&#8217; has to run in the reverse direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2022 When they meet while running, they will say &#8216;Namaste&#8217; and then both will try to reach &#8216;Y&#8217;s place first, running in their own direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Whoever reaches the place late will continue running and he will touch some other player and thus the game continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol style=\"list-style-type:upper-roman\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Variation \u2022 When &#8216;Y&#8217; meet &#8216;X&#8217;, how &#8216;X&#8217; acts like that &#8216;Y&#8217; has to imitate.\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>II.Variation \u2022 &#8216;X&#8217; can hop on one leg instead of running<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>2\/MANDAL KHO (CO &#8211; ORDINATION)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Practice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2022 All the players stand in a circle at equal distance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>. \u2022 Alternate players will stand in opposite directions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 The first player of each team will be given a baton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2022 He should run and give the baton to the second player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Second player in turn to the third and so on until the last player receives the stick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Second team should run in the opposite direction and complete the process<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>. \u2022 Whichever team completes the process first is the winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>3\/TRAIN RACE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Practice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The groups will be standing in a straight line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2022 When the game starts, the first player of the group will start running towards the boundary line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2022 After reaching there he starts running in reverse direction without changing the direction of his face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2022 When he reaches the starting line, the second player, holds his\/her waist, then both of them start running up to the boundary line and again return to starting line without changing the direction of their face, to take the third player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2022 The game continues right up to the last player forming a chain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 The group which reaches the starting line first is the winner<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>4\/FLAG RACE (SPEED)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 16 players can play this game at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2022 Divide them into four groups of four each according to their state\/class<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>. \u2022 Arrange all the four groups to play in four different corners. Give each group a flag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2022 When the whistle is blown, first player will move to another corner, handover the flag to the second, second to third, third to fourth, fourth to first, where the game ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2022 Like that all the four groups will play simultaneously, who ever finishes the job first will be the winner of the game<strong><u><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Games play an important part in creating awareness, concentration and attention. 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