I recently had the opportunity to review The Grateful Giraffe, by Giselle Shardlow. It is a sweet book featuring a variety of animals corresponding to yoga poses for children. I read the book and did the yoga flow with my kids one morning, and they really enjoyed it! Giselle has included tips for how to use the book and how to use yoga in general with kids, and I loved that! There are illustrations of kids performing the poses on each spread, which is very helpful for young ones who need information in as concrete a manner as possible. I also really enjoyed the flow--it was one that I could probably teach to my kids to use without the book eventually. We added a simple mindfulness component to the rest pose at the end. As we lay in rest pose, we talked about five things we could see, five things we could touch or feel, and five things we could hear. It was a nice way to bring closure to the activity and add in mindfulness. There is an extr...
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