Yoga for Young People: A Flowmotion Book: Essential Yoga Poses to Help Young People Get Fit, Flexible, Supple and Healthy - Softcover

Lark, Liz

9781402706684: Yoga for Young People: A Flowmotion Book: Essential Yoga Poses to Help Young People Get Fit, Flexible, Supple and Healthy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1402706685 ISBN 13: 9781402706684

Publisher: Sterling, 2003

Four hours of homework every night. After-school activities scheduled every minute. Children not only have to fight today's sedentary lifestyle and fast-food culture, but they also need relaxation! Yoga is the answer, offering fitness and spiritual calm that will stay with them forever--and FlowMotion(tm), which captures every move in frame-by-frame detail, is the way to learn. Images and easy-to-follow captions explain classic Yoga exercises, such as "the supine twist," "cat," "extended child," and many more. Every asana, or posture, has been specially selected by an international Yoga expert for its gentleness, safety, and ability to improve posture, suppleness, and overall well-being.

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Reviewed with Ben Powell's Skateboarding.

Gr. 4-8. Sterling introduced their Flowmotion series for adults last year, and this year, a spin-off series of the same name debuts for kids, using the same unique format: a continuous series of stop-action photographs that demonstrate activities, step-by-step. The children pictured in both volumes often seem younger than the book's target audience, and the introduction to Yoga-- with small print, gloomy statistics, sophisticated language, and instructions for guiding children through to poses--is less for children than adults. Skateboarding is more accessible; it has helpful safety tips, a glossary of skating terms, and a diagram of a skateboard's components. The strength of both titles is the excellent instructions. Beneath photographs that flow across each spread and show movements from start to finish, are text bars providing more detailed applications, including, in Yoga, essential tips on when to breathe. Younger children will probably need an adult's help to get through the texts, but these books offer outstanding visual introductions to their subjects for browsing or focused learning. Gillian Engberg
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