The Best Kids Yoga Videos

Some parents would be surprised to see their energetic children enthralled by yoga. When yoga is taught by instructors who understand what captures children's attention, the children can love yoga and actually look forward to doing it. Some videos instruct children and parents how to do yoga together at home in your living room. Children don't realize the physical and mental benefits of doing yoga, but mom and dad certainly do.

  1. Yogamazing

    • "Yogamazing: Yoga for the Kid in All of Us," by yoga instructor Chaz Rough, is a video for parents and children to enjoy together. Rough, an instructor, singer-songwriter and children's author, teaches kids yoga poses through creative play and silliness, like having them pretend they are animals while they develop their strength and flexibility. Some poses are specifically for your child to do with you. According to Omega, this video was one of Yoga Journal's Editor Choices for 2002.

    Yogakids: Silly to Calm for ages 3 to 6

    • "Silly to Calm" is part of the award-winning "Yogakids" video series, led by creator Marsha Wenig. Wenig teaches children the art of yoga through imaginative play and yoga poses to increase stamina, strength and flexibility. Wenig is a mom and former school teacher. Kids bounce around the room one moment and calmly sit criss cross on the mats to take pause the next. This balance of activities keeps children engaged.

    Yogakids: ABC's for ages 3 to 6

    • In "ABCs," Marsha Wenig instructs your children on yoga and develops their yoga skills through their ABCs, from alligators chomping to forming a Y for a yo-yo pose. Children learn by watching and following Wenig and other children demonstrating.

    Rodney Yee: Yoga Journal's Family Yoga

    • "Family Yoga" is a yoga video led by yoga instructor Rodney Yee, his wife Donna Fone and their children. Yee instructs the program for all ages and teaches families how they can incorporate yoga together as a family but in a playful way. Children and parents develop themselves mentally and physically as a family.