Yoga Kids

Description

The innovative YogaKids (R) program offers more than just poses: 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 (R) 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 (R) 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. - Designed for kids and adults to use together - Integrates yoga with verbal, spatial, and mathematical learning - Follow-up to the best-selling YogaKids (R) video, a Parents' Choice award winner - Two new videos to be released this fall - National author tour - National print and broadcast publicity - Online marketing

Marsha Wenig, CYT, is the creator of YogaKids[registered] and the President of YogaKids[registered] International. Marsha is a certified yoga instructor as well as a certified yoga therapist for children with special needs. Through her YogaKids[registered] Facilitator Certification Program, hundreds of facilitators are being trained to teach YogaKids[registered]. YogaKids[registered] is considered the premier program for yoga education, and its trainees and facilitators work throughout the world. As an expert in the field of yoga for children, Marsha has written widely on this subject for Yoga Journal, Fitness, Parent Guide, Yoga Chicago, and manuals for her YogaKids Facilitator training program.

"YogaKids is an excellent yoga primer for children."