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Sing Song Yoga® Kids Yoga App Update Live in App Store

Sing Song Yoga® For Kids… Take Two!!

We are excited to announce that our kids yoga app update is available in the Apple App Store!  We want to be sure you enjoy the benefits of the improvements:

  • Bugs squashed
  • Improved stability and performance with iOS7 integration
  • Simplified usability

NEW: kids yoga app

The above pic illustrates an example of one of the simplified features in our kids yoga app – the Available Purchases page. While our Packages remain the most economical deal for purchasing, this new page more clearly displays the options for you, to best meet the needs of your family or classroom.   We’re so grateful for our talented developers and love this gorgeous and functional new “Available Purchases” page!

kids yoga app

And, another example of the simplified features —  If you do not own all of the poses and sequences, those you do own will move to the left so you can find them easily.

 

We are so excited to make these improvements available to better serve you and your young yogis! Thank you for your continued support and loyalty for Sing Song Yoga! We are so grateful for you!  If you’re not yet following us on Facebook and Twitter now’s a great time to hop on board 🙂

Look forward to sharing more soon,

Deb

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 9th, 2014.
Posted in Sing Song Yoga.
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Top 6 Kids Yoga Poses for Bedtime: a calming sequence

Ahhhh!  Summer is here.  After long lovely days at the beach, at the ballpark, on the playground and running around the neighborhood, kids tend to remain wired when heading to bed.  Unless of course a calming activity is deliberately infused into the routine leading up to bedtime.

One such activity can be a short series of kids yoga poses.  Here are top 6 yoga poses for helping your child begin to calm their bodies and minds — in as little as 8 minutes. These poses also happen to be the included poses in the free Sing Song Yoga App.  So enjoy – and let us know what you think!

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Sailboat begins the series during which your child will twist around the straight spine, which has a neutral effect on the nervous system.

 

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Next comes Half Butterfly.  Forward folds have a calming effect on the nervous system and the one bent leg opening up the hip adds to the calming effect.

 

Fish T Still Image

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fish pose is a lovely night time yoga pose to add to our sequence.  We tend to hold stress in our hips, so allowing our legs to relax out to the sides enhances the relaxation effect.  Open up the chest and allow your head to relax back and look behind you (slightly different than the picture). This multifaceted pose works beautifully to continue the calming effect.

 

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Bridge pose is an inversion well known for its calming effect on the nervous system.  This kids’ yoga pose can also be used anytime you have an extra minute during your day to give your child an extra sense of calm. Great, of course, for moms and dads too!

 

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Deadbug pose adds a final dose of a calming response before the big finale! Your child can even add the hum of the bug to enhance the relaxation. Hearing the humming sound within one’s own head can also double the calm for some children.

 

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Savasana is the final yoga pose in this series and the granddaddy of the relaxation poses.  Encourage your child to lie flat on his or her back, close the eyes and imagine themselves floating on a cloud allowing their bodies to completely relax.  For preparing for bedtime, it can also be helpful for your child to do savasana right in their bed and then allow themselves to drift softly into dreamland!  Ahh! Now mom and dad can slip off for their own quiet time.

 

 

If you would like to learn the songs and more in-depth directions to these Sing Song Yoga kids yoga poses, check out the award-winning Sing Song Yoga App in the iTunes Store. The above poses are the free ones at launch. Or see our website to order the DVD.

To see a fun White Board Animation about our program click here!

Sing Song Yoga Kids Yoga App video animation

 

 

 

 

 

 

This entry was posted on Saturday, June 21st, 2014.
Posted in Benefits of Yoga, Kid's Yoga Sequences, Parenting, Sing Song Yoga.
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Sing Song Yoga Kids Yoga App Awarded Top App of the Year 2014

We are feeling the love and are grateful for the honor as our Sing Song Yoga kids yoga app has been named the “2014 Top App of the Year Award” in the “Apps for Healthy Habits” category by Creative Child Magazine!  Thank you heaps to the over 100 reviewers, made up of educators and parents, who put their hearts, time and expertise into reviewing our app.  We love that others are finding such value in our first-of-its-kind kids yoga app, which makes our beloved Sing Song Yoga program completely customizable for the user.

Sing Song Yoga iPhone & iPad App

The Sing Song Yoga App allows the user to customize his or her own yoga experience by selecting either:

  • one of the 39 preprogrammed Sing Song Yoga Sequences or
  • individual kids yoga poses

kids yoga app Sing Song Yoga App

Each of the preprogrammed SSY Sequences have an end in mind.  Some of the more popular sequences are the “Bedtime Sequence,” the “Athlete’s Sequence” and the “I am Powerful Sequence.”

The free download includes one free sequence and 6 free poses.  This helps the user know if it’s a good fit for them before purchasing either a package, sequences or poses.

One fun feature to highlight is that kids love saving their own sequences with their names in them:

kid yoga app Sing Song YogaThank you for checking out our kids yoga app.  You can search kids yoga or Sing Song Yoga in the Apple App Store or simply click on Sing Song Yoga app here. For more information on our kids’ musical yoga program go to our Sing Song Yoga for kids yoga website.

 

Thank you Creative Child Magazine for the recognition!  We are truly grateful for the honor!  See this post for the process that goes into selecting the award winners.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 11th, 2014.
Posted in Parenting, Sing Song Yoga.
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Five Calming Holiday Poses Made Easy with Kids Yoga App

Last year, before our Sing Song Yoga App was available, I wrote a blog post about some great calming kids’ yoga poses for the Holidays, using poses from our DVD.  Now our SSY App makes it easy to line up the poses, save, and push play to enjoy the sequence as its own little video.  There are inevitably times during the holidays when life can be a bit stressful for our kids. So having this little tool in your pocket can be quite helpful in guiding your children back to feeling peaceful.

This quick video demonstrates using the Sing Song Yoga App to create this calming sequence.

Links for more info:

Our website, DVD, App, holiday blog post, App blog post

And a fun animation about why yoga can be a great thing for your kids 🙂

 

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Holiday Sequene App Demo Pic

This entry was posted on Saturday, December 7th, 2013.
Posted in Kid's Yoga Sequences, Sing Song Yoga.
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Can a Tablet Actually Get Kids Moving?

Tablets are typically a source of screen time for kids.  During screen time the child is still, the eyes hold a fixed gaze, and the image on the screen is moving.  So as a teacher and a mom, I’m thrilled to encourage your kids to use the Sing Song Yoga® kids yoga app to transform their screen time into some “music and movement” time.

This whiteboard animation and jingle are a fun way to say the same thing…

When kids move, play and sing they use their brains well.
Building their brains is naturally fun.
Paving the brain roads and making connections
A well-developed brain makes learning easy and fun!

But too often now kids sit with one of these.
Which at times can be a bit of a concern.
So let’s use tablets to get kids moving
So we can see the benefits of moving return

Experts find that yoga helps kids
With focus, awareness, coordination and more.
A kids’ yoga studio on your TV
Find the Sing Song Yoga® App in the App Store.

So have fun encouraging your kids to use their tablets to keep moving!  And thanks in advance for sharing this post!

The Sing Song Yoga® App is available in the Apple App Store and is explained in detail in this former blog post.

For more information about our program check out www.singsongyoga.com

 

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Sing Song Yoga Kids Yoga App video animation

This entry was posted on Saturday, November 23rd, 2013.
Posted in Benefits of Yoga, Parenting, Sing Song Yoga, Yoga Research.
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