Create a Yoga Practice for Kids: Fun, Flexibility, and Focus

Yael Calhoun, Matthew R. Calhoun

Sunstone Press, 2006 - Exercise for children - 128 pages

What allows kids to use a lot of energy, make funny noises, relax, and learn to focus all at the same time? Yoga! While many yoga books present individual poses, this book explains how to create a flowing yoga practice that will holds kids' interest while providing the benefits of yoga. Here is a handbook for anyone--including parents, teachers, and kids--who wants to develop a fun yoga practice. In addition, the book provides ideas for yoga games, yoga at a wall, more relaxation games, and five-minute classroom yoga.

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Contents

• Foreword: 12
• Opening Poses: 27
• B Sequence 2: 33
• Themes: 41
• Math YogaPoses You Can Double: 46
• Poses That Melt: 52
• Pose You Can Do In Line and Those You Cannot: 58
• Poses That Flow: 64
• Poses That Grow: 70
• H Theme 8 Poses That Get Wet: 77
• Poses That Kick: 83
• Circles and Arcs: 89
• Relaxation: 95
• Sequence 3102: 102
• B Yoga Games: 110
• Learning the Body: 119
• Sanskrit Pronunciations: 127

About the author

Yael Calhoun, M.Ed., M.S., is an author and educator who has been studying yoga for 15 years. Yael lives in Utah with her husband and three sons, who have shared their yoga practices with her from the start.

Matthew R. Calhoun is a certified children¿s yoga teacher and holds three certifications in hypnotherapy. He created yoga programs for children at the Chicago Yoga Institute and at Onward Neighborhood House. Matthew lives in New York City.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Create a Yoga Practice for Kids: Fun, Flexibility, and Focus
• Authors: Yael Calhoun, Matthew R. Calhoun
• Illustrated by: Carol Anne Coogan
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Sunstone Press, 2006
• ISBN: 0865344906, 9780865344907
• Length: 128 pages