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

Mark Singleton

ISBN 10: 1780288751 / ISBN 13: 9781780288758

Published by Watkins Media Limited, United Kingdom, London, 2016

About this Item

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. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Yoga for You and Your Child: The Step-By-Step Guide to Enjoying Yoga with Children of All Ages
• Publisher: Watkins Media Limited, United Kingdom, London
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1780288751
• ISBN 13: 9781780288758
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 544 grams

About this title

Synopsis

Improve your child's health, agility, concentration, confidence and awareness through simple and fun yoga practice.

This is a comprehensive introduction to the inspirational world of yoga for children. Mark Singleton adapts more than 40 yoga positions to make them safe, effective and fun for children. Practical and fun, the book contains everything you need to know to start practising yoga with your child. With the emphasis on safety and enjoyment, it 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. The instructions for postures and exercises are addressed to the children themselves, to make them as easy to follow as possible. As well as energetic physical poses, this book also adapts traditional yogic breathing techniques and meditations into fun exercises that calm and soothe the mind and help children sleep at night. It explores how regular yoga practice can help children learn more effectively and cope better with stress, as well as reduce symptoms of illness such as asthma and prevent posture problems in later life.

About the Author

Mark Singleton is a qualified yoga instructor in the Iyengar and Satyananda traditions, with wide experience of teaching workshops and clubs for children. He trained in children's yoga at The Alice Project in India, a programme patronized by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He has published extensively on modern yoga, including the first collection of scholarship on the topic, Yoga in the Modern World (2008), and the ground breaking study of the modern history of asana Yoga Body. His opinions on yoga have appeared (among other places) in The New York Times and Yoga Journal.(among other places) in The New York Times and Yoga Journal.