5 resources to help your child practice Yoga

mindfulness meditation yoga teddy bear 5 OMazing resources to encourage your little cub to find peace through mindfulness and meditation. Also, Omazing yoga books to inspire!

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Meddy Teddy

by Megan Devine on February 21, 2017

I use yoga and mindfulness strategies to help me become more grounded and present as a mother, wife, teacher, and friend. When I share these activities with children, not only am I share the benefits, but I’m also applying my knowledge at a deeper level, as the role of a teacher. You do not need to be a licensed yoga teacher to experience and share yoga and mindfulness practices with children, but a foundation of understanding will definitely help.

Related: Using Yoga and Mindfulness to Help Kids Learn

Check out these 5 great resources to help you get started on sharing yoga and mindfulness with your children:

1. Yoga for Children

This is a wonderful resource, written by children’s yoga expert, Lisa Flynn. In this book you will find color photographs, instructional scripts, and pose modifications for more than 200 yoga poses, meditations, and activities that are suitable for children between the ages of two and twelve. ‘Yoga for Children’ will help build your child’s confidence, self-awareness, and focus while strengthening your connection, one yoga session at a time.

2. Meddy Teddy

mindfulness meditation yoga teddy bear

This is an adorable, poseable yoga and mindfulness teddy bear that is a great tool for teaching. It can also serve as a faithful companion. Be sure to check out the fun and inspirational images on Meddy Teddy’s Instagram account.

3. Kids Yoga Stories

This is a fabulous blog/website dedicated to kids yoga. Founder, Giselle Shardlow, shares her books that combine stories with yoga poses, resources and helpful information for parents and teachers.

4. YogaKids – Educating the Whole Child Through Yoga

Written by Marsha Wenig, the founder of YogaKids, this is a beautiful book full of colorful images and thorough descriptions.

5. Sitting Still like a Frog — Mindfulness Exercises for Kids (and Their Parents)

Written by Eline Snel, this book and CD is an introduction to mindfulness meditation for children. It includes practices that can help children calm down, become more focused, fall asleep more easily, alleviate worry, manage anger, and generally become more patient and aware.

Original Article: http://www.mothering.com/articles/complete-5-great-resources-to-help-share-yoga-and-mindfulness-with-children/

Best Yoga Partner

Meddy Teddy is by far one of the cutest things I’ve ever incorporated into my yoga classes. I took him on a full day of classes, car rides, & check ins and he never disappointed. Everyone loved having him present. What I thought was really cool is him just sitting peacefully made clients and students check in with themselves. Everyone noticed how having a cute reminder sitting meditating help them to just ask themselves a simple question like am I okay? Am I relaxed? Do I need to do as much? Meddy Teddy is just a simple idea that makes a major impact on adults and children. My son loves having him at home to practice his karate and yoga poses. If you don’t have one you need one!