SUBJECTS:
Exercise Juvenile Literature
Yoga
Exercise For Children
Exercise
Hatha Yoga For Children
Yoga Juvenile Literature

Even though this is a book that is geared towards children, I found myself getting a lot out of it. I like how beautiful the illustrations were, and they really helped me to visualize how the poses should look in their proper context. It's a cute, rhyming book that shows children how much fun (and beneficial) yoga can be for them. ( )

A very adorable ABCs of yoga for the young and young-at-heart. The illustrations are darling and the sweet look at the poses will make even the adult yoga practitioner smile.

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This book is a companion to ABCs of Yoga for Kids, a picture book that uses the alphabet, rhyming and colorful illustrations to introduce children to yoga.

This book has a few cute ideas for classes for kids relying heavily on the ABC's of yoga book. If you are new to teaching yoga or someone just starting out teaching yoga to kids this is a nice companion book that gives some great explanations as to how yoga can help children with Autism, ADHD, and also just the every day stress that kids these days have. There are great ideas for activities that unplug kids and teach them ways to help move their bodies, learn breath techniques and meditations that can help them throughout life. Children who learn these techniques early in life will have lifelong skills to help them relieve stress and bring awareness to their bodies. Yoga also helps teach kids about living a healthy lifestyle in a fun and non-competitive way.

This is a nice starter book for teacher or parents of young children who would like to incorporate some fun stress relieving movement into a classroom. Even in a normal everyday school schedule a 10 minute break doing a few of these fun exercises can really help kids focus and retain more.

Activities are described a little vaguely so I would suggest you are familiar with the ABC's of Yoga for Kids book. Since the poses names are the ones used in her book and not necessarily the mainstream yoga pose name you may not know what pose she is talking about. There are several illustrations of poses in the book but I still suggest buying this book as a set instead of on its own.

I feel like many of these activities would be good for pre-school to kindergarten age children. ( )

I was sent a copy of the book for review though Net Galley, as always, all opinions are my own.

I’m a huge fan of anything that helps keep children active and this book certainly does that, my toddler had a blast working through all of the poses. The illustrations are fun although those who study yoga may notice some discrepancy among the names used for the poses and that many of the poses aren't really poses at all. Even though I study yoga myself I don't find that this bothers one bit, it’s a great way to engage my son in something that keeps him active during the long winter months. ( )