Attention Deficit Disorder & Children's Yoga

Review by Dr. Linda Budd, author of Living with the Active Alert Child Endorses Angel Bear Yoga™

Angel Bear Yoga has clearly met the challenge very well in creating a yoga program for active children. The work captures the imagination of children. It encourages movement, using traditional yoga poses, with creative visualizations. I believe it is an excellent tool for young children to learn self-discipline, self-regulation and positive character values. The voice on the CD is quite soothing as children are guided in stories. Christi and Mark Eley have put together wonderful tools. I love the image of Angel Bear, as it truly represents the goodness in all children and seeing the angel inside each of them. I have long encouraged parents to help their children learn yoga, but most were not really designed for children.

I have been waiting a long time for someone to create a program like Angel Bear, and it is now here!

Linda S. Budd, PhD, LP, LMFT, RPT-S
Living with the Active Alert Child
ISBN 0-943990-88-2

"Teaching yoga to children is so rewarding, as it gives me a chance to pass yoga along to the next generation. What I found so wonderful with Angel Bear Yoga is it gave me so much more to add to my classes. My Yoga Kids also love having Angel Bear and Sweet Pea as the mascott. The Adventure Stories are so amazing. It's hard to come up with guided meditations that children will enjoy. These are truly remarkable - the detail to the stories and the descriptions of everything being said in the visualizations have allowed my ADHD children to rest quietly. I also found that all of the children are so quiet during the Adventure Stories, as they do not want to miss any of the details.

The best part of the Adventure Stories is that each one has a wonderful moral lesson to learn - which is such an important part of yoga and life. It gives the children a chance to have a fun discussion after the stories as well. There are so many stories on the CD that it will last a long, long time with a different story each week. My yoga kids will never be bored or restless during final relaxation. Thank you so much for enhancing my classes!"

Mimi Strzelewicz, RYT
Webster, MA