Ship’s ahoy! Boat Pose (navasana) is a simple –yet challenging – yoga pose that builds abdominal, hip, and lower spinal strength. Practicing Boat Pose also enhances digestion, stimulates the thyroid, and aids in kidney, prostate, and intestinal function. Plus for...
My path to becoming a kids' yoga teacher was extremely unexpected. As a 200-hour RYT, I’ve taught hundreds of classes to adults of all ages and experiences levels, but not once did I see myself getting involved with teaching yoga to kids. To be completely honest, the...
Want to grab any kid's attention? Just say the word "snack" and BOOM. Use this to your advantage with a food theme in your next yoga class: Yummy Yoga: Kidding Around Yoga has written a wonderfully creative song called Yummy Yoga. In it, you fly around the world...
Our blog author today is Kaden, an 11 year old Yogi. Whether physically or mentally, doing yoga can make you and your family members strong and healthy. When my mother first began yoga I was doing sports such as football and soccer. I gradually increased in these...
Need a theme for your kids' Yoga class? How about using the month of March as your theme? "In like a lion, out like a lamb" is a familiar saying that invites our imaginations to pair the fierce weather of winter to be like a lion with the hope that a gentle lamb-like...
When I tell people I am a Yoga teacher a lot of them answer things like: "I can't do that", I am not flexible enough", "Yoga is too slow- I am more the energetic type".... So I made it my mission to tell (and show) people that Yoga is for EVERYONE. Same applies to...
As a 500-hour yoga instructor, aspiring Personal Trainer, and generally active person, I take matters of health quite seriously. I’ve had injuries in the past from running that have been horribly disabling. I watch people my age complain of aches and pains and be...
Downward Facing Dog (Adho Mukha Svanasana) is a pose great for aligning everything along the back side of the body. It is my personal “aaahh” pose done daily. This posture does double duty using both the arms and legs to stretch the spine, hips, hamstrings, and calves...
* Kidding Around Yoga teaches Yoga to children of all cultures, races, faiths and backgrounds. Yoga Yeladim is Kidding Around Yoga with a Jewish twist and provides Yoga methods for people who work with children in the Jewish community.* Deep breathing exercises can...
In Kidding Around Yoga we are moving and exercising all parts of our bodies: arms, back, legs, hips, mind, spirit, and all the way down to our little piggies with Toe-ga! It’s so important to work on balance and stability in every aspect of our lives as yogis. Could...
I have always gotten a kick out of pom-poms. But I had never thought they could help toes! Toe-ga is the best exercise/game/activity/whatever you want to call it. Is it better than all the rest, really? YES! All you gotta do is get a bag of pom-poms of varying colors...
I have always liked to shake things up…in a good way, of course. I like to shake up my exercise routines, yoga postures, culinary experiments, research interests, projects, etc, etc. I also like to feel good and smile a lot. So when I learned of the benefits of...
When I arrived at home from my weekend training with Haris in May, all I could say to my husband was, “Haris is a genius! Haris is a genius!” My statement was completely validated just a few days later when I used the KAY music with kids for the first time. I am a...
When I took my Kids’ Yoga training, they told us about Really Stinky Feet Spray. It has a soothing aroma of lavender, and I was told to use it in case my students came to class with some old school smelly feet. At the moment, I wasn’t so sure about it but during my...
WOWZA! What a crazy few weeks. Or as I have learned through my fellow KAY teachers, it has been CRAY KAY. Oh, excuse me, where are my manners?! My name is Harris, and yes, Harris is my first name. Yes, I know it is Haris ‘Harini’ Lender’s first name too. She made me...
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