Yoga for You and Your Child: The Step-By-Step Guide to Enjoying Yoga with Children of All Ages

Yoga for You and Your Child: The Step-By-Step Guide to Enjoying Yoga with Children of All Ages

by Mark Singleton (Author)

Synopsis

Yoga has so much to offer children, from keeping them healthy and agile, to helping them to focus, to encouraging self-awareness, a positive self-image and the beginnings of spiritual awareness. This book contains more than 40 yoga postures specially recommended as safe, beneficial, easy-to-learn and most of all fun for growing children - and their parents, too! The step-by-step photographs make the instructions really clear and easy to follow for both grown-ups and little ones.Whether you already practise yoga or are trying it for the first time, this easy-to-follow guide allows you to share yoga's many benefits with your child - whatever your level of flexibility and fitness. * Includes more than 40 yoga postures for children of all ages devised by children's yoga expert Mark Singleton* Shows how to make yoga sessions exciting, interactive and child-friendly by playing yoga games, going on yoga adventures and imitating animal shapes, walks and noises* Explores how regular yoga practice can help children learn more effectively, cope better with stress, reduce symptoms of illness such as asthma, and prevent posture problems in later life* Adapts traditional yogic breathing techniques and meditation into fun exercises that calm and soothe the mind, and help children to sleep at night

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More Information

Format: Illustrated
Pages: 144
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Watkins Publishing
Published: 19 Jan 2016

ISBN 10: 1780288751
ISBN 13: 9781780288758

Author Bio
Mark Singleton is a qualified yoga instructor in the Iyengar and Satyanandatraditions, with wide experience of teaching workshops and clubs forchildren. He trained in children's yoga at The Alice Project in India, a programmepatronized by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He has published extensively onmodern yoga, including the first collection of scholarship on the topic, Yoga in theModern World, and the ground-breaking study of the modern history of asana, Yoga Body. His opinions on yoga have appeared in (among other places) The New York Times and Yoga Journal.