Yaks Can Do Yoga!

Yoga makes children happy, healthy and strong! But if you are a clumsy yak, with wobbly hooves, who has never done yoga before, it can be tricky. Join Yak in her first Happy Panda class and see how she discovers the power and playfulness of yoga. Eight yoga poses and their benefits are clearly explained and illustrated at the back of the book so young children can easily do them at home or in the classroom.

Yoga is for everyone!

Adorable, engaging characters and humorous story draw in young children and get them hooked on yoga, creating healthy mind-body habits to last a lifetime.

Mindfulness and meditation are lots and fun! The story’s humorous, creative visualisation exercises tap into young children’s innate imagination, facilitating a deeper understanding of their emotions and developing confidence and resilience.

Author and experienced children’s yoga teacher Snezana Danilovic and illustrator Sandy Thornton team up to create the Happy Panda Children’s Yoga picture book series of heart-warming stories full of gentle humour, aimed at encouraging even very young children to get hooked on yoga. Parents, teachers and educators don’t need to be experienced yogis – they can learn and enjoy yoga alongside young readers, too!

Yaks Can Do Yoga! is the first book in the series. Children’s yoga is specially designed for children and is also adapted and refined to suit their different ages, abilities, and levels of energy and pace.

It has many medically-proven and powerful benefits, including: develop concentration, bring calm, and build self-esteem, build co-ordination and strength, stimulate the nervous, lymphatic and immune system to foster energetic and healthy bodiescreate a healthy awareness of body and connection with the natural world Yoga enables children to slow down in today’s fast world.

With the busyness of day-to-day life, it can come as a surprise to children how enjoyable yoga mediation is when ‘everything stops’, enabling children feel calm.Mindfulness and meditation are accessible and fun!

The story’s humorous, creative visualization exercises tap into young children’s innate imagination, facilitating a deeper understanding of their emotions and developing confidence and resilience.

My Review

What an amazing book! I’ve always felt like a clumsy yak when it comes to yoga – not very balanced lol. I love how this book shows children how to do yoga, breaking it down into terms they would really understand. I tried doing this with my 3yr old and let me tell you, we had a blast! The diversity shown in the book was amazing, letting all kids know that they too can do yoga. The illustrations are absolutely adorable (Yak is my personal favorite)! I can’t wait to see what comes next!

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The Duo Behind The Magic

Snezana Danilovic is a children’s author and an experienced children’s yoga teacher. Her mission is to bring yoga to children through her passion for storytelling. She has spent the last 30 years writing and working in theatre and children’s TV, creating an array of characters for pre-school and early years. Snezana lives in Windsor with her husband, two children and a hamster. She loves hugging trees and her house is full of balloons and musical instruments!

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Sandy Thornton is a picture bookmaker with over 20 years of experience in early years creative play, running her own children’s art & craft classes, whilst providing creative ideas and content for children’s TV, including Cbeebies Mr Maker. From an early age, Sandy snipped, sketched, glued and stapled her own little books and magazines, influenced at the time by Herge’s Tintin and Jansson’s Moomins. Sandy lives in North London, with her family, their dog Winston and cat Rocky.

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Huge thanks to Snezana for my gifted copy in exchange for my honest review. To get your hands on a copy click on the link below!

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For all my readers, thanks for coming by! Have a lovely rest of your weekend!