Read About the Benefits of Yoga for Active Kids in the Vancouver Sun
January 07, 2015Eight slender arms — a few circled by bright friendship bracelets — reach up and overhead to limber the muscles of pint-sized athletes. The under-11 soccer players stretch and, later, massage away kinks by rolling on foam tubes.
It's a Vancouver yoga class for athletic kids, a group that's getting injured at a higher rate than ever before, doctors say, because of growing specialization in sports at a young age.