Mommy & Baby Fitness NEW
By Heather Hudson
"Flushed and still sweating from her aerobics class, Jodi Engel-Covens rushed to the gym's day care anxious to cuddle her two-month-old daughter. Though it felt good to exercise again, she couldn't control the flashes of guilt that passed through her as she pictured her baby in a stranger's arms..."
Prenatal Yoga Teacher Takes Us Full Circle
An Interview by Elizabeth Bonet, Ph.D.
"Susan Rothlein has been teaching pre and postnatal yoga for about six years. She and her husband, Lewis, who also teaches yoga, own Full Circle Yoga in Winter Park, Florida. Having attended her classes from weeks 15 to 39 of my pregnancy, I intimately knew that prenatal yoga was one of the few things that quelled the anxiety of pregnancy. Now that my daughter is two, I finally had a minute to catch up with her..."
YogaKids Videos: Silly to Calm and ABCs
A Product Review by Michelle Smith
"These tapes are a favorite of my five-year-old daughter Sarah and my almost three-year-old niece, Ashlee. In addition to exercising their bodies children are given the opportunity to expand their minds with mini lessons that open them up to the world around them. Little animal lovers will enjoy performing poses that mimic the movements of seals, snakes, and lions..."
Family Fitness
By Carol Laliberte
"One way to live a healthy lifestyle and increase your chances for good overall quality of life is to eat a well balanced, plant based diet. But even eating vegetarian is not enough. Exercise is a critical component to good health and unfortunately a missing piece of the puzzle for too many people..."
Yoga for Kids (photo essay)
By Lisa Steele
"Kids love yoga!! And why not? It is fun to twist your body into shapes, turn upside down, do poses with funny animal names and be silly! Yoga also helps them develop better body awareness, self-control, flexibility and coordination..."
Children and Yoga
By Michelle Smith
"Children and yoga are a natural fit. Poses like Cobra, Lion, and Tree invite a lets-pretend kind of play. Can your stretch your neck like a Cobra? Can you roar like Lion? These are the questions that inspire children to examine the world around them in new and exciting ways. Performing the asanas - engaging both body and mind - helps to increase energy and release thoughts of creativity and peace..."
Greenleafy's Yoga Chart Product Review
"With the hope they would be motivated to practice the poses on their own, I hung the chart in my daughter Bay's room. Although my youngest is the bigger yoga fan, I keep finding my older, preteen daughter bending her body into the poster's various examples..."
Like a Fish in Water: Yoga For Children Book Review
Reviewed by Michelle Smith
"This is a wonderful book. The author, Isabelle Koch, uses photos of her daughter, Garance, colorful illustrations, and stories about various plants, animals, and shapes to show children the joy and ease of Yoga practice..."
Yoga Kids: Educating the Whole Child Through Yoga Book Review
Reviewed by Lucy Watkins
"We are big fans of the YogaKids videos, so you can imagine the excitement when we received this book. Joy (5) and Shirlee (3) were thrilled to see it and wanted to get right down to the business of practicing poses..."
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