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 | Heat wave getting you down? You say you've been to the pool, the mall, the trampoline place, and then back to the pool? It might be time to break out your secret summer weapon: yoga! If you can make it fun for the kids, they might just let you sneak in a few down dogs yourself. Here's how. | |
Yoga Poses for Kids
Fourteen kid-approved poses, plus suggestions for how to keep kids engaged by relating the poses to their experiences. This is not really a sequence per se, so feel free to pick and choose the poses that will work best for your family.
| Watch Me Do Yoga
Watch Me Do Yoga is an engaging children's book by Iyengar yoga teacher and illustrator Bobby Clennell. Clennell's premise is spot-on: while yoga may be a solitary, interior pursuit for adults, children want to feel they are participating in something. And if they master a new trick, the first thing they want to do is show mom and dad.
| YogaKids Video
This video feels a little dated, but it still a super sweet introduction to yoga for kids aged 3-6. It shows kids doing all the poses, which makes it very relatable for child viewer.
| Pose of the Week - Mountain Pose - Tadasana
 New yoga students can find the basics of alignment confusing, but most of the time it just comes down to stacking. The simplest pose that illustrates this is mountain pose - tadasana. Standing in mountain pose, all the major joint and skeletal building blocks are stacked one of top of the other. This means, from the bottom up, that the ankles, knees, pelvis, and shoulder girdle are all in a line. Keeping this set-up in mind helps you to figure out the alignment in other standing poses. Take warrior II, for instance. Though the front knee is bent, interrupting the continuous line from toe to head, you can still stack that knee over its corresponding ankle and the shoulder girdle over the pelvis. Make sense?
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