Yoga for kids

Kids and yoga is a great mix. Actually, anyone and yoga is a surely compatible mix.

Wai Lana yoga's little yogis is so beneficial in so many ways.

Wai Lana's yoga DVD program has something for all age yoga kids, starting with her "Little Yogis" yoga DVD. Parents will love this safe, fun and challenging yoga DVD. Her yoga DVD, "Little Yogis" is full of healthful activities that are good for all the yoga kids in your life. Yoga kids will get such a kick out of doing yoga with Wai Lana. She is and inspiration to yoga kids everywhere. Wai Lana makes yoga into a fun game where yoga kids are entertained and delighted. The yoga DVD "Little Yogis" will teach your yoga kids how to improve their balance and coordination. They won't even know that this playful and exciting yoga DVD is just what the doctor ordered.

A wonderful yoga DVD to watch would be Wai Lana's "Daydream". This yoga DVD is based on an ancient yoga technique known as Yoga Nidra. Her yoga DVD is good for naptime.

Do also try some yoga to stay healthy!

Stretch and Play- Yoga Eco Ball

This looks like great fun! I wish this had all been around when I was a kid.

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Coming Soon: Wai Lana's Little Yogis™
Stretch n Play Eco ball

Kids can roll, bounce, and balance on the ball to get fit, strong, and flexible

* Suitable for children aged 3 and up
* Exercising on the ball enhances strength, focus, and balance
* Fun games develop eye-hand coordination
* More than 20 exercises and 4 games on one colorful poster

Kit includes:

* Yellow kid-sized yoga ball made from phthalate-free PVC
* Easy foot pump for quick inflation
* Cute illustrated poster with exercises and games
$24.95

How to Help Your Child Enjoy the Benefits of Yoga

How to Help Your Child Enjoy the Benefits of Yoga
Anna Montage, Health and Wellness Editor

With the new school year underway, many kids are experiencing new teachers, new classes, and new friends. This is also a great time to start your child on a healthy new habit—yoga. Children today often face the same obstacle to health and happiness that all of us face: stress. Yoga not only helps relieve stress, it provides so many other benefits for children:

* Strengthen, stretch and tone muscles
* Improve balance and coordination
* Increase bodily awareness
* Learn to listen and follow directions
* Laugh and have fun.

This month we’d like to offer some helpful tips for starting your child off on the energizing, calming, and fun path of yoga.
The Younger, the Better

Children are just like little sponges, soaking up everything around them. The earlier you’re able to influence them to engage in healthy activities, the more likely they are to enjoy and stick with them over a lifetime.

Even children as young as one year can learn simple poses like Stretching Dog. Kids naturally stretch, twist, and bend. If you see your tot doing something that resembles yoga, you can tell them, “Yoga!” It becomes a fun thing that’s easy and natural for them to do.

The Wai Lana Little Yogis videos and DVDs were made just for the purpose of getting kids into yoga; the bright colors, fun songs, and yoga cartoons act like a magnet for your child’s attention.

In the beginning, children may enjoy just watching the video. As they become more familiar with the poses, they’ll gradually begin to attempt them on their own.
Set an Example

If you practice yoga, even if only occasionally, your child will be that much more likely to practice yoga too. As your child comes to love yoga, it will also make it easier for you to do your own yoga practice; you may quickly find that your child is doing yoga right alongside you. You may also find that your desire to set a nice example increases your motivation to practice yoga regularly.
Make Yoga a Social Activity

Children, especially those age 5 and up, love being with their friends. You can encourage your child to invite friends over to do yoga together. They’ll laugh and giggle as they watch each other learn new fun poses.

The Wai Lana Little Yogis coloring books, Fun Songs CD, stickers, and other fun stuff provide more enjoyable ways for children to have fun together while promoting a lifelong love of yoga.
Give a Little Personalized Guidance

Every child learns differently. Especially if your child is very young, he or she may benefit from occasional guidance to help them master the Little Yogis yoga poses. Even attempting the yoga poses offers tremendous benefit for your child, so there’s no need to worry about whether he or she gets them just right or not. However, all children love encouragement and their parents’ attention.
A Healthy Yoga Diet Makes It Easier to Do Yoga

Most of us have such hectic and busy schedules that it’s hard to eat as healthy a diet as we would like. However, especially for children, a balanced yoga diet, with emphasis on fruits and vegetables, dairy products, legumes and whole grains, will make it easier for your child to have the energy and enthusiasm for regular yoga practice.

Practicing yoga will naturally make your child more attracted to eating healthy foods, and the opposite is also true—eating a healthy diet will naturally help increase your child’s attraction for yoga.

Our mission at Wai Lana Yoga is to help you and your little ones enjoy the wonderful lifelong benefits of yoga.

Wai Lana Yoga

Healthy Yoga Fun For Kids

oooh!! My neices will be sure to love this one!

Coming Soon: Wai Lana's Little Yogis™
Eco Tote Kit

Healthy yoga fun your kids will love!
Kit includes:

* Little Yogis™ DVD: Award-winning DVD delights the whole family!
* Little Yogis™ Eco Mat: Fun, colorful, durable, and completely free from phthalates, phenols, dioxins, and furans
* Cartoon Yoga Poster with 21 poses
* Handy Tote Bag made from recycled materials
* Silly Cartoon Stickers

Wai Lana's Yoga Store

Ommmm Baby

Ommmm Baby

Playthings Magazine
April 2006

Yoga's mental and physical benefits are a healthy selling point

New products in the Little Yogis line from Wai Lana (Malibu, Calif.) include the EnviroMat, a chloride-free, biodegradable soft mat for yogis of all sizes (a Little Yogis-themed mat is also available). The Daydream DVD features Wai Lana's naptime cartoon, which utilizes an ancient yoga relaxation technique, Yoga Nidra, to help small children calm down and sleep. The DVD guides kids through meditation activities, as well as entertaining them with animated waterfalls, balloons and dancing butterflies. Exercise kits, a Teacher's Yoga Kit, and a Fun Songs book and CD.

Spiritual sales
For toy retailers, the company offers point-of-sale floor displays for Little Yogi mats, and kits and promotional flyers that list the health benefits of each product. Currently, the products' consumer base includes parents, as well as daycare centers and schools that use the product as part of their fitness and naptime programs.

“The Little Yogis line is a great fit for many retailers—especially toy stores,” says Wai Lana, founder and president of Wai Lana. “The line has fun and exciting activities for children that will help them grow mentally and physically, so parents really appreciate it. Little Yogis is unique, because it has excellent entertainment value, as well as a positive influence on child development. By helping [parents] understand the incredible difference these products can make, it becomes easy for them to pass along that enthusiasm to their customers.”

Lana initially started the company to offer products that help combat obesity, but yoga's relaxation and meditation exercises are also helpful for children with sleep problems, or for calming young children. “With such high rates of childhood obesity, ADD, and ADHD, there is a real need for children to have tools for achieving health, happiness, and balance naturally,” says Lana. “My children practiced yoga as they grew up, and it helped them tremendously. I wanted to make the benefits of yoga available to other children as well. So I created the Little Yogis—a product line that's fun and entertaining while taking children in a positive, healthy direction. The Little Yogis makes these yoga techniques fun and appealing.”

Lana adds that parents should consider yoga to help balance a child physically, mentally, and emotionally. “As children have fun doing yoga asanas (postures), they develop flexibility, coordination, balance, strength, and body awareness. Such qualities help them perform better in sports and make them less prone to injury. Performing yoga asanas also increases their determination and ability to focus. This really gives kids a learning advantage when it comes to schoolwork, music lessons, martial arts, and other pursuits. Yoga also regulates hormones and calms the mind, making its techniques valuable tools when kids feel angry, frustrated, fearful, or stressed.”

“Yoga is great fun for kids,” says Lana. “Children love pretending to be different animals in poses like Lion, Cobra, and Seabird. They get to use their imagination to be windmills, bridges, and boomerangs. I look around and I see children growing up so fast and dealing with all kinds of stress—whether it's because their families are breaking up or they feel peer pressure to act older than they are. Yoga lets them relax and have fun getting familiar with their bodies through movement, balance, and even music. Yoga lets kids be kids.”

Wailana In the Media

Wai Lana: Yoga CD Helps Kids with ADD

Yoga CD Helps Kids with ADD
October 27, 2004

With ADD and ADHD rates skyrocketing in the United States over the past decade, it is critical to find natural ways to help our children achieve a state of balance and relaxation—without a prescription. Wai Lana, host of the long-running PBS series Wai Lana Yoga, provides a solution for tired or troubled youngsters with her latest CD, Daydream. Using techniques from the ancient art of yoga, Wai Lana helps kids find natural relaxation and relief from stress through soothing sounds and songs.

“Rest and relaxation is essential to our well-being, no matter how old we are,” Wai Lana emphasizes, “and learning to relax when you’re young will stay with you for the rest of your life.”

Wai Lana’s Daydream CD is the latest product in her Little Yogis line, which includes videos, DVDs, music CDs, mats, kits, games and books. The Daydream CD includes two tracks, each containing a guided relaxation, original songs, ambient music, and soothing sounds of the oceanside. Track 1 lulls listeners to sleep, then ends with a song called “Wake Up, Sleepyhead” to lure them out of their slumber in good spirits. Track 2’s relaxation session fades out with the sound of ocean waves, letting listeners continue resting peacefully.

“When my kids were small, they never wanted to nap or settle down,” laughs Wai Lana, “so I was crafty about it. I’d relax my kids by singing to them, with simple visualization techniques, and with yoga relaxation. I’d get far better results than by announcing ‘Kids, it’s naptime!’ or telling them to calm down. The approach I used was more subtle and enjoyable for us all—and far more effective. Since my children were young, they’ve appreciated the importance of relaxation and have used yoga’s techniques to achieve not just physical health, but mental health as well.”

Having raised three children herself, Wai Lana knows well the benefits kids can experience through yoga relaxation. And with her Daydream CD she shares yoga’s gift of relaxation with the world’s growing population of little yogis, helping them deal naturally with stress, anger, and other turbulent emotions, now and in their future years.

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Relax with Wailana Music

When I've been really stressed out, can't think right, and am really irritable, usually what works to calm me down is when I pop in one of Wailana's music CDs. It just changes my whole vibe, my whole outlook, makes it much easier, better.

Ahhh.. and for her Little Yogis cd and songs? OH the kids just love it. :) They're good fun for the rest of us too. I love singing along with them when my nieces and nephews listen and sing them.

Wailana for Kids

It's always good fun to have your kids join you and enjoy doing what you're doing- be it signing, cooking, or hey- doing yoga! I think that it's just great that Wailana has made all that possible with her Little Yogis series and materials. I think it's a great way to get kids to get to know their bodies, and get into the habit of doing yoga too. I hope that this will help them stay healthy for the rest of their lives. I guess there really isn't an alternative to developing good habits early on.

Thank you Wailana!