Yoga With Kids: Learning Together

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Yoga with kids is a fun and challenging experience. I am fairly new to my yoga journey and I love that my children are learning yoga, to control their bodies and minds, with me.

Long before I had children, back in my university days, I took regular yoga classes. I loved the challenge that yoga presented to me. At the time I was a fit person in my late teens. I took a couple of dance classes weekly, as well as pilates. Yoga was a new challenge. It tested my strength, my flexibility, and, most importantly, my mind.

After university, I stopped doing yoga.

I tried a few yoga studios in my new city where I was working full time, but none of them had the same vibe as the one I was taking before. They didn’t resonate with me.

Time went on and, 4 children and quite a few pounds gained later, I have rekindled my passion for yoga.

Yoga With Kids

This time my yoga journey is different.

I am not in the physically fit shape I once was. To complicate things, I quite often have little children joining in on the fun as well.

I start off doing Yoga with Adriene on YouTube. But then, somehow, I end up switching to Cosmic Kids Yoga and pretending my boat pose is a pirate ship and we are off to find the treasure.

I love the enthusiasm for yoga that my children have developed. There are mornings when my toddler will go find the yoga mats and convince me that we need to go on a yoga adventure.

Being able to share my fitness and mindfulness journey with my children is very important. I hope I am teaching them to love and take care of their bodies, minds, and souls.

Yoga Equipment for Kids

Once I realized that my children actually had a passion for yoga, I decided that it was time to get them some equipment of their own. Investing in equipment and tools for our home yoga practice is an investment in our homeschooling journey.

Some people play hockey or football, we do yoga.

Yoga Mats

Our yoga mats are nothing fancy. They are very basic yoga mats that you can get anywhere. Our mats were inexpensive and a great way to start our practice. When these mats need to be replaced, which they probably will need to be soon (we have had them for YEARS), we will be looking into better quality mats. These mats have caught my eye because they can be washed in the washing machine, which is something my current mats cannot do and all parents know the importance of being able to wash things easily!

Yoga Blocks

Another piece of yoga equipment that we have recently added to our collection is yoga blocks. The children do not use them that often but I really enjoy having them for my own practice.

For the longest time, because we did not use them a lot, we just used foam blocks from the toy bin to help with different poses but they are not as solid as proper yoga blocks.

Yoga Pretzels

We love games of all kinds. Yoga Pretzels is like a yoga game! The set comes with 50 colourful cards with yoga poses and thought-provoking questions for when you are in each pose.

The boys love being able to select the different poses they do and make their own sequence using the cards. Sometimes they will pick specific poses and other times they will shuffle the cards and just do poses as they pick random cards.

Goodnight Yoga

When we have an overstimulating day, or if the kids need help calming their bodies at the end of the day, we love to read Goodnight Yoga. This is a wonderful book which takes you through a calm and relaxing yoga sequence to calm their minds and bodies. At the end of the book is also a guided meditation which we really love.

I hope that yoga is something we can continue to do together as a family. We recently became members of our local YMCA but our youngest is not quite old enough for their family yoga class yet. Hopefully, we will be able to join those classes, in due time, and connect with other families who like to do yoga with kids.

Do you do yoga with kids? Please share your experience in the comments below!