Nurturing Your Family With Yoga is an essential guide to the practice of yoga for families and children, demonstrating how yoga can be a real part of everyday family life and bring happiness and harmony to the home. Illustrated with beautiful, inspiring photographs of children and adults practising yoga together, and with clear, concise explanations, the book is packed with fun and practical suggestions for incorporating yoga into daily life, including:
- The A-Z of Yoga - a wonderful, engaging game that introduces children to 26 classic yoga poses
- Breathing exercises to strengthen and balance the nervous system and to steady the mind
- Visualisations to reduce anxiety and build resilience
- Yoga in Bed sequence to help children settle down and sleep well
With guided meditations, affirmations and reflections that will inspire and inform interesting and thoughtful discussions with children, as well as tips and tricks for adults to help you share yoga successfully, Nurturing Your Family With Yoga is all you need to help you foster health and wellbeing for your whole family.
Kiki was born in the City of London and fell in love with yoga aged 6, when she took a class in a friend's playroom. She has worked as a medical doctor in some of London's top hospitals and writes a regular column on anatomy for Om Yoga Magazine. She started her yoga career teaching 2 year olds, taught yoga therapy at London's celebrated Triyoga and is the founder of Primrose Hill Yoga. Known for her beautiful, calming voice , she has narrated Becalmed, an album of Yoga Nidra meditations on iTunes. She lives in London with her husband and their 3 children.
Title: Nurturing Your Family with Yoga: An A-Z of yoga poses, meditations, breathing and games for the whole family
Author: Kiki Morriss
ISBN: 9781906756802
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Publisher: Pinter & Martin Ltd.
Publication Date: 2021-04-29
Number of Pages: 144
Weight: 0.4801 kg
Kiki, who is an MD, a Yoga Therapist and a Birthlight Perinatal Yoga and Baby Yoga teacher, is an extraordinary woman. Among many medical and yoga accomplishments, she has chosen to teach yoga to children in London schools and her book Nurturing Your Family with Yoga has just been published by YogaWords. As a mother of three, the incentive to write a book about Family Yoga has come from her children, now aged 14, 12 and 8. Kiki sees children's yoga as a continuation of nurturing, a way for children to find calm and grow in their confidence, laying the foundations for teen and adult years. Early exposure to yoga, writes Kiki, acts as powerful, preventative medicine and supports good mental, physical and emotional health throughout life.
This is a classic book, inviting parents to enjoy 'doing yoga' with their children. The clear, simple structure of the book, the carefully crafted yet creative and relaxed style, the beautiful settings and the inspiring photographs all make it look possible. Dream families? Perhaps, but the tips for sharing yoga successfully with children are reassuringly pragmatic. Keep it light-hearted and brief, do not worry if the children lose interest, let them create their own versions of yoga poses.
The A to Z illustrated list of yoga poses come with benefits, affirmations and reflections that highlight the messages of poses for education and happy living as yoga philosophy in practice. Developing awareness of how the different yoga poses make one feel can certainly be the root of future mindfulness and compassion.
The parenting with yoga that oozes through the words and the images of Kiki Morriss' beautiful book is an expansion of the early parenting that Birthlight invites with Baby Yoga. Saying that you will teach your children to be attentive by being attentive to them is more than preaching by example, it involves a sharing of experience that nurtures the whole family.
-- Francoise Freedman
This is such a beautiful book. Not only is it practical and accessible, filled with lots of tips and ideas to introduce yoga to all the family, it is wonderfully playful and full of joy. Kiki's passion and knowledge shine through every page.
-- Anna Wise, co-author of Yoga Sadhana for Mothers
