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

Mark Singleton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780288751 ISBN 13: 9781780288758

Publisher: Watkins Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

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

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

About this title

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, and the ground-breaking study of the modern history of asana, Yoga Body. His opinions on yoga have appeared in (among other places) The New York Times and Yoga Journal.

Edition details

• Publisher: Watkins Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1780288751
• ISBN 13: 9781780288758
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144