YogaKids: Educating The Whole Child Through Yoga

by Marsha Wenig, Susan Andrews (Photographs)

The innovative YogaKids® program offers more than just It blends traditional yoga and its benefits with new theories of multiple learning styles in a comprehensive, imaginative, and playful approach to education. The best-selling YogaKids® video (a Parent's Choice award winner) has been helping kids--and their parents--discover the pleasures and benefits of yoga for more than seven years. With this book, Marsha Wenig's fun and child-friendly course is expanded and enriched for parents, teachers, and caregivers. YogaKids® presents more than 50 carefully selected poses, in clear, easy-to-follow, color photographs, paired with special activities that stimulate children's verbal, spatial, and artistic skills. The book includes special yoga routines to cover a multitude of common situations, such as calming down, getting ready for a test, or even riding in a car, as well as help for children with special needs. Parents learn the physical and emotional benefits of each pose; children discover that learning is fun, that exercise feels good, and that taking care of their bodies is easy.

Genres: Parenting

128 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2003

Reviews

[createitlibrarian (Amanda) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Given it was written in 2003, some of the resources at the back are old. However this book is full of great activities and suggestions to make a kids yoga session engaging. It's developmentally appropriate (though I'll definitely hold off on inversions for storytime) and thoughtfully put together.

[Julie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I used the hot air balloon pose/activity in a music and movement and it was a hit!

[Brooke · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really liked it, it had some great ideas. I'm going to need to own it to make good use out of it though.

[Hillary · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice resource