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Designed for children ages three and up, offers sixty-eight exercises and games based on traditional yoga exercises to help improve flexibility and motor skills and develop confidence and awareness.
This introduction to yoga for children contains variations on traditional yoga postures that help children develop physical strength, flexibility, emotional calm, and self-expression. The games involve relaxation, trust, and cooperation. Included are over 50 illustrations and 16 completely structured lessons based on themes like the seasons, rain, snow, and animals.
Introduce children to the benefits of yoga through play Yoga is loved the world over for how it can build physical strength, promote mindfulness, and inspire calm. With a variety of engaging exercises, guided poses, and stimulating games, this yoga book for kids teaches young yogis the virtues of yoga through play while helping them build physical strength, flexibility, and balance. Make yoga for kids fun and easy with: Kid-friendly instructions—Simple guidance and illustrations show kids all the techniques they need to master different poses and have a blast doing it. Lessons in independence—Discover methods of solo play and meditation that will help build skills in mindfulness and self-confidence. A regular routine—Give kids the foundation to create a regular yoga practice with poses perfect for starting the day, sustaining energy, and winding down for a restful night's sleep. Help kids develop strength, reduce stress, and find calm—all while having fun—with this kids' yoga book.
Fun and healthy yoga exercises for kids and adults. Many children do not instinctively understand the importance of relaxation and meditation. It can be a difficult concept to grasp for someone at a young age. Yoga can be an accessible and fun way for children to learn the advantages of de-stressing and relaxing. By starting yoga early, your children will develop their natural flexibility and balance while simultaneously releasing mental and physical tension. With the fun activities featured in this book, learn one hundred ways to introduce them to this healthy exercise, which could develop into a lifelong practice. Included in this book are sections discussing: • Relaxation • Meditation • Breathing • Mudras (Sanskrit for “gesture” or “attitude”) • Standing and sitting postures • Elongated postures • Games incorporating yoga Additionally, 100 Yoga Activities for Kids features full-color illustrations and diagrams on every page to aid in the explanation and instruction of each pose. Discover the amazing benefits of these elaborate and simple postures, and explore a fun and healthy activity to share together.
Drama games are not staged plays but a dynamic form in which children explore their minds and the world around them. They can use their play-acting in sensory games, pantomimes, story games with puppets, in creating masks and costumes, and much more. Drama games allow children to get more in touch with themselves and what they want to be, and are a delightful way to discover the freedom, creativity, and expression of acting- and living. The SmartFunActivity series encourage imagination, social interaction, and self-expression in children. To make the books easy to use, games are marked according to appropriate age levels, length of play time, and group size, using helpful icons. Most games are non-competitive and none require special skills or training. The series is widely used in homes, schools, daycare centers, clubs, and summer camp.
The best way to teach yoga to children is with games. With 52 vibrant, easy-to-follow yoga games requiring no previous yoga experience, this book will enable you to help children become better listeners, take responsibility, gain self-control, improve behaviour, become assertive and improve self-esteem and confidence. Within these pages Michael Chissick has distilled nearly twenty years' experience of teaching yoga to children aged 3-11 in mainstream and special needs schools. He explains the ideal yoga lesson structure to transform your children's behaviour: you will learn which games to teach, when to teach them and how to teach them, and how the additional benefits of improved co-ordination, flexibility, fitness, self-calming and relaxation can be accessible to all children regardless of impairment, need, culture, shape, mood or size.
Yoga has become a popular activity for children around the world, and The Yoga Adventure for Children is a ready-to-use resource for elementary school teachers and yoga teachers who wish to create children's classes or add sessions between lessons, during a gym class or after school. Ideal for stretches and warm-ups, yoga is also useful for P.E., dance and drama classes and camp activities. Parents, too, can share this book with their child at home. Practicing yoga together offers parents and children an opportunity to interact, play and have fun together.
Yoga in the Music Studio brings the popular and beneficial practice of yoga to music teachers and students of all instruments and ages, from preschoolers to senior adults and all those in-between. Expert on mind-body techniques Lesley S. McAllister provides a unique opportunity for all to improve their musical craft, enabling teachers to help their students concentrate, listen more attentively, relax, and play their best - whether before a performance or just during lessons - all through the practice of yoga. Many music teachers know that yoga postures and breathing practices can help musicians achieve peak performance, prevent injury, and relieve pain, yet surprisingly few are themselves familiar with these techniques or know how to introduce them to their students. McAllister welcomes the music teacher into the philosophy and history of yoga, introducing them to the research behind yoga's physical and emotional benefits. Step-by-step illustrations of practical stretches and useful poses then guide the teacher to the yoga practices that suit their individual needs and those of their students. An accessible and comprehensive yoga curriculum, Yoga in the Music Studio will help to improve students' musicianship, while contributing to their lifelong health and wellness.
