Yoga & Pilates for Children - Kids Yoga

Creative Yoga Games for Kids

Early Childhood to Pre Teens
Designed by Edna Reinhardt

This is a concept developed by Edna over some 30 years of teaching at her own studio and in school and early childhood settings. Much of the structure has come from her running training workshops for teachers.

The set is also intended for use at home under the guidance of adults, yet it is simple enough for children to initiate their own games.

The boxed set is made up of 48 numbered yoga postures on 130x130mm laminated cards and a 28 page booklet. The postures are of varying degrees of difficulty and across an age range from early childhood to pre-teens.
It includes a set of class plans for teachers and instructions for activities and games. These include memory games, transition games (creating links between postures) and creative movement, encouraging the link from yoga to dance in a natural and simple way.

Yoga Kids 2: ABC's

For ages 3-6
With YogaKids founder, Marsha Wenig


Children's yoga expert and YogaKids founder Marsha Wenig's imaginative educational approach speaks your child's language while teaching yoga fundamentals adapted especially for 3 to 6 year-olds. Clap hands and feet like a seal, mimic the fluid motion of a yo-yo, move arms and legs in sync like a locomotive...every letter offers a fun new way to learn about the body and the world.

Research shows that kids learn through movement and by exploring their world in a tactile way - and that long-lasting learning is best absorbed when your child is alert but relaxed.

YogaKids 2: ABC's uses a playful, kid-friendly approach to keep your child engaged, at ease and having fun while teaching skills to last a lifetime.

This DVD offers child-friendly ways to build physical fitness and self confidence as well as activities to build coordination and challenge imagination
DVD 30 mins

Yoga Kids 3: Silly to Calm

For ages 3-6
With YogaKids founder, Marsha Wenig

Channels energy into fitness fun!
Helps kids feel calm and confident
Builds focus and challenges creativity
Harness any child's willy-nilly energy and turn it into constructive, character building fitness playtime. In this remarkable addition to the award-winning YogaKids series, kids' yoga expert Marsha Wenig meets youngsters where they are - in high gear - and expertly shifts their frame of mind from silly to steady, restless to relaxed, boisterous to balanced.

Created with inspiration, imagination and a kids-eye-view, Silly to Calm engages lively young minds and bodies and ingeniously moves from energetic activities to calming basic yoga movements.

With this program, kids can express, release and refocus excess vim and vigor - challenging muscles and thinking skills at the same time. You'll reach for Silly to Calm again and again as a fun, constructive outlet for boundless young energy.

DVD 30 mins

Fitness Fun: Pilates for Kids

Pilates innovator Moira Merrithew and her young pals get moving with this invigorating, kid-friendly pilates workout using household balls and bands to add to the fun.

Best suited for ages eight to 14, and the young-at-heart adults who work out with them.

DVD - 32 minutes

Meditation for Children

Patrice Thomas

This delightful, easy to use CD gives parents, teachers and carers a simple and effective way to introduce the regular pratice of relaxation to children by resting, calming and rejuvenating their bodies, minds and spirits.

The meditation stories have been successfully used in day care centres, preschools and primary schools as the imagery and fantasy on each track appeals to children’s sense of wonder. Using the breath and lying still whilst listening to a meditation story accompanied by gentle music, children from 3 years through to early teens can learn how to soothe and calm themselves. These benefits can be transferred when they feel upset, angry or “out of sorts”. Perfect to use at home, school or in childcare settings to help children become more resilient, competent, calm and positive in facing the challenges of an increasingly stressful world.

Still Quiet Place Mindfulness forYoung Children

Mindfulness is process of developing moment to moment inner awareness which has been proven to reduce stress. So how might our children benefit if they learn this life skill now while they are young, and remain familiar with the "Still Quiet Place" within themselves as they grow-up?
Maybe if our children are able to experience their thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations without being overwhelmed, they will be less prone to the unhealthy effects of stress.
Perhaps if they learn to access a natural sense of peace, and to trust their own inner wisdom, they will be less susceptible to harmful peer influences, and less likely to look for relief in potentially risky behaviors.
Research indicates that reducing children's stress enhances their physical health, social relations, academic abilities and most importantly their sense of well being.

Yoga for Kids - Book

By Bel Gibbs Stretching & strengthening exercises for 3-11 year olds.

Safe, healthy and fun yoga to help children grow flexible and strong in body and mind.

This book is an introduction to yoga for children. They can enjoy doing the various animal poses such as a lion, a tortoise or dragonfly.
A solid reference book for parents, with sound advice on fun, safe teaching principles to pass on knowledge and experience that will stay with children throughout their lives; and classic yoga postures, plus specially-designed poses and games to inspire and encourage children, even the very young and those who are trying for the first time.

Yoga teaches self-awareness, and can help to build confidence and promote overall well-being. The book shows children how to make yoga a part of everyday life. And while yoga will help to build supple muscles and flexible joints, it is also about positive thinking, self-confidence and inner calm: hyperactive, non-athletic or shy children will all benefit from the expression of feeling and imagination through movement that yoga brings.
Beautifully presented with full-colour photographs and charming illustrations, this expertly written book introduces children of all ages to the concept and practice of yoga and will help to give them the best possible start in life.
Illustrated with over 350 delightful colour photographs.

Softcover - large format - 96 pages

Who Am I? Yoga for Children of All Ages - Book

By Jane Lee Wiesner

Jane Wiesner's first yoga publication is a refreshing approach to the introduction to Yoga, a subject that can often seem obscure and inaccessible to many.

Recognising that the contemporary approach to Yoga is very much about seamlessly bringing it into daily life, Jane has simply and beautifully provided readers of all ages (but particularly youngsters) with an inspirational reference source that can be with them over the years as they adopt the practices of yoga to help in answering the question Who am I?

Paperback: 32 Pages
Dimensions: 210 x 210 mm

Yoga, A Magical Gift For All Ages - Book

By Jane Lee Wiesner

Magic Me is the second in a series of yoga books designed to assist positive outcomes in childhood developments (physically and emotionally).
Yoga provides a wonderful way to help combat both childhood obesity through physical practice, and childhood depression through the wisdom of yogic philosophy. Melbourne based Jane Wiesner encourages the imagination of children and adults alike by way of a series of simple reflective yoga practices.

Paperback: 32 Pages
Dimensions: 210 x 210 mm