1 Allow children who are 6 and older to hold poses and do exercises for up to 1-1/2 minutes, or 90 seconds. 2  Older kids can often endure yoga sessions up to 25 minutes.. Teach kids how to breathe. Relaxed and deep breathing is essential to the practice of yoga. 1  Explain that proper breathing produces calm, allows focus and increases energy. 2  Kids often need to understand why they are asked to do something.
Respiration is the sequence of events that results in the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between the atmosphere and the body's cells. Every three to five seconds, nerve impulses stimulate the breathing process, or ventilation, which moves air through a series of passages into and out of the lungs.
Answer Wiki. One critical role that oxygen plays in the body is that it is used to oxidize our food, in the process of cellular respiration, thus releasing energy, which is eventually stored in ATP in the electron transport chain in mitochondria, and in glycolysis in the cytoplasm.