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New Parent & Child Kids Yoga Class
Spinning Spider
Young children and loving adults make for a perfect kids’ yoga combination! We had our inaugural Parent and Child Sing Song Yoga class today. It was such a blast! The parents were fabulously good sports!
Turtle Partners
Our traditional live Sing Song Yoga kids’ yoga class invites kids whose ages range from about 5 to 11. And over the past year or so we have continued to have parents inquire about their toddlers and preschoolers being able to join.
So we have finally answered the call. For this kids’ yoga class we have changed things up a bit designing it to be specifically for the youngest yogi! We shortened the class to 30 minutes, have added some movement and parents, and now happily accommodate children ages 2-6.
Snug as a Bug
We enjoyed some traditional poses today but also added in heaps of movement! Thanks so much to our young yogis and parents alike who made for a really fun first class!
savasana
For more information on this and other Sing Song Yoga classes see our website. To do more Kids’ Yoga at home or in school, check out our new Sing Song Yoga Kid’s Yoga App in the Apple App Store as well as www.singsongyoga.com for general information about our program.
This entry was posted on Monday, October 21st, 2013.
Posted in Parenting, Sing Song Yoga, Toddlers.
Tagged: boys, children, childrens yoga, gifts, girls, health, kids, kids yoga, kids yoga app, kids yoga benefits, mom and me yoga, music, parenting, physical activities for toddlers, raising kids, sing song yoga, toddler, toddler yoga, yoga app, yoga poses
Gratitude Before the Storm
I could barely utter the word seizure ever since a decade ago when my 30-something-year-old brother had an unexpected seizure, never having had one before. So recently when my 20-month-old little man had a febrile seizure it was scary to say the least. A febrile seizure is one brought on by a fever in very young children and are typically benign. It helped immensely that I was aware of this type of seizure and felt assured that he would be fine while going through the challenge. Frightening but manageable.
My husband and I, over the week or so prior to the seizure, had been increasingly forgetting to stay in the moments of gratitude with our quite active twin toddlers. We were tending to get wrapped up in the moments of chaos with things being knocked over, pulled down, dumped out, torn up and thrown over our deck. The chasing, redirecting, reminding and repeating were dominating our thought process as well as our conversations.
After the seizure that day we were more than grateful to see our little man coming around to being himself again. We were thrilled to say “yep, our little dude is back to himself” when he chucked a stuffed animal across the room to initiate a game of catch. I’d never been so grateful for the flinging of a toy!
As a whole we do strive to stay in the moments and enjoy this stage of life. We do stop and simply take in the moments much of the time. But often times we allow our mindfulness to dwindle, getting caught up in the busyness of life, until something forces us to remember to do so.
Not only is life precious, but it’s the tiny moments that make it so. Striving to live in gratitude and fully experience these little moments, in the absence of a storm, is fully worth striving for!
This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 4th, 2013.
Posted in Parenting.
Tagged: boys, children, childrens yoga, gratitude, kids, kids christmas, kids yoga, kids yoga app, mindfulness, parenting
Top 6 Yoga Poses for Toddlers
Recently my 17-month old said “mo doda” which means more dog. So I looked outside and informed him that the neighbor’s dog had gone inside. He loves watching their dog. But he continued to repeat “mo doda, mo doda” while continuing to do the sign language for more. I finally realized he wanted me to sing our Sing Song Yoga song for Downward Dog!! So I started to sing it. He was elated and joyfully got into the pose. My heart melted!
A few months ago a parent asked me how she could best do yoga with her one-year-old daughter. After thinking about it I realized that I could simply share with her what I do. When my twin toddlers are playing and it seems like a good time, I get down on the floor with them, sing a song for a pose and do the pose. Some days they are more into it than others but they love it!
Of course, I already know the Sing Song Yoga songs, but for other parents I recommended this. Learn one of our songs and how to do the pose by watching the Sing Song Yoga DVD or your chosen pose on the Sing Song Yoga App. Then, once you’ve learned a song or two and your child is playing and seems open to it, get down on the floor with them and begin singing and doing the pose. Your child might not do the pose right away but it shouldn’t take too long before they catch on. Also, whenever you see your child in what looks like that pose, begin singing the song and do the pose right next to them. Soon you will have a little one who pops in and out of yoga poses all day long! It is such a blast when they do their first yoga pose on purpose! And so heart warming to witness them continue to love it!
To start doing yoga today with your toddler I recommend the following six poses. Remember – take this very lightly and simply have fun. Your toddlers might join in right away, but if they do not they are learning nonetheless and will move forward in their own time. So give it a try and I’d love to hear about your experiences on our facebook page!
Downward Dog
Lion
Butterfly
Mountain
Dead Bug
L Pose
Savasana 🙂
This entry was posted on Friday, May 31st, 2013.
Posted in Toddlers.
Tagged: children, childrens yoga, dvd, health, kids, kids yoga, kids yoga app, kids yoga benefits, music, physical activities for toddlers, sing song yoga, toddler, toddler yoga, video, yoga, yoga app, yoga benefits, yoga for kids, yoga poses
Kids’ Yoga App Debuts in App Store
The first of its kind, the Sing Song Yoga® App for kids goes live today in the Apple App Store. The iOS app, based off our popular DVD program by the same name, takes the yoga video concept to the next level. Instead of playing the same sequences repeatedly, the Sing Song Yoga App allows the user to choose individual poses, virtually creating a new yoga video each time.
Sing Song Yoga is a kids’ musical yoga program in which song lyrics instruct children how to get into the poses. The App features the beautifully produced, full HD video of the DVD yet is perfectly customizable. There are two avenues to take within the app. The user can either choose one of 39 preprogrammed SSY Sequences or allows parents, along with their kids, to choose individual poses by simply dragging and dropping poses into the Sequence Canvas to play as a seamless video.
In the above screen shot of the app, the arrows show the standing poses tab, the color coding of the poses (red for energizing, blue for cooling, and yellow for neutral) and dragging the poses to the Sequence Canvas.
These pics above show the SSY Sequences tab, from which the user drags one of the preprogrammed SSY Sequences to the Sequence Canvas and the poses fill in. From the Canvas you can customize further, by adding, deleting or moving poses around and change the speed of the transition.
Once the poses are set perfectly for your use, push play and enjoy your customized kids’ yoga video.
Save your custom sequences with personalized names for later use.
Transform your TV into a virtual yoga studio. The Sing Song Yoga app is AirPlay enabled for use with Apple TV and is compatible with HDMI adapters for mirroring on TV’s and projectors.
Check out the other features within this free app, which includes one SSY Sequence and six poses. This allows families and schools to play with it and see that it’s a good fit for them. Additional poses and sequence are available as in-app purchases starting at $0.99 and $3.99 respectively. And Sequence Packages start at $14.99 unlocking all the poses and 16 SSY Sequences.
The Sing Song Yoga® App is compatible on any iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad Mini that support iOS 6.0 and above.
We would love to hear your feedback on the app on our facebook page or below!
This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 28th, 2013.
Posted in Sing Song Yoga.
Tagged: app store, children, childrens yoga, dvd, health, kids, kids yoga, kids yoga app, kids yoga benefits, music, sing song yoga, video, yoga, yoga app, yoga benefits, yoga for kids, yoga poses
2013 Charity of The Year
Sing Song Yoga® is really excited to partner with Conductive Learning Center for our 2013 Charity of the Year.
At Conductive Learning Center (CLC), located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, children with motor disorders learn to become confident, active and self-reliant individuals. These children may have cerebral palsy, spina bifida or other motor challenges that make even the smallest tasks – eating, buttoning a shirt or sitting in a chair – seem monumental. CLC uses an intensive, multi-disciplinary approach called Conductive Education to help the children gain control over their bodies, allowing them to accomplish tasks that may have once seemed impossible. For more information please use the following links: www.conductivelearningcenter.org
www.facebook.com/conductivelearningcenter
Sing Song Yoga® is greatly looking forward to learning from, and growing with, Conductive Learning Center this year!
This entry was posted on Monday, January 7th, 2013.
Posted in Charity of the Year.
Tagged: charity, children, childrens yoga, dvd, health, kids, kids yoga, motor disorders, video