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

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.

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 program 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.