Testimonials

"Christi,
I attended your session at the NCaeyc Conference. I purchased the lessons and must tell you that my students and I both love them! I have tried to add yoga to my class for several years unsuccessfully, but your lessons have worked. We do a portion of the lesson each day until we have completed a character trait each week. The children in my preschool are remembering the lessons and remind each other. I just reviewed the lesson book on amazon and would love if you could send me the Play Deck.

Also, my classroom is a Demonstration Site through the Office of School Readiness for best preschool practices for the state. The demo site teacher and administrators meet two times a year, and at our fall meeting I told everyone about your program, they all thought it sounded wonderful!!! You may be hearing from Patsy Pierce to see if you could come to our spring meeting. I just wanted to give you a heads up so that you would know where the contact came from. Again thank you for such a wonderful program, I love using it in my classroom."

Lynn Young
Preschool Teacher of the Hearing Impaired
Lacy Elementary
919-881-4930

"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

"Our daughter has a seizure disorder and is easily over stimulated. Angelbear Yoga has been wonderful. She loves the class and is able to come home to practice her new moves. She packs up her yoga mat each week for class. It has given her an avenue for relaxation and control the stimulation in her environment. She will often pull her mat out at home when things are getting crazy. Thanks Christi." Deb

"To combine yoga, imagination, character development, and a sense of wonder and connectedness to nature is not only creative and inspiring, but truly needed at this time in our history. To introduce Angel Bear Yoga™ to young ones is a start, to hopefully, enrich ourselves and open our eyes to a more sustainable and beautiful world."

Patricia Rossi, Education Specialist
Akron, Ohio.

"The Angel Bear Yoga™ curriculum incorporates developmentally appropriate activities and concepts that can support national goals for early childhood education. It is a wellthought-out tool that can enhance children, parents, and teacher's knowledge about life. Combining movement, nature, language, and values in a unique way."

Dot Hill, M.Ed.
Early Childhood Consultant and Trainer.

"A very creative way to teach character development in young children. Combining both movement and character adds a new avenue for me to teach my four-year-olds about sharing and respecting one another."

Preschool Teacher
North Carolina.

"Christi Eley has created a wonderful and unique yoga program for children. Her Angel Bear Yoga™ program uses a storytelling approach to not only teach fun and healthy yoga poses, but also to teach children about positive character traits."

Tamera Byer, Yoga Instructo
Campbell County YMCA, Fort Thomas, Kentucky.

"Children at our school love the Angel Bear Yoga™ classes. Ms. Christi enjoys teaching as much as our students enjoy learning!"

Angela Manning
Director, Winston-Salem Montessori School, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

"My daughter loves Angel Bear Yoga™ class. After her first class with Ms. Christi, she went home and lined up all her stuffed animals on her bed and taught them the yoga poses she had learned!"

Mary
Mother in North Carolina.

"Wow! What a great concept to use yoga as an avenue to teach so many valuable lessons." This tool changed my mind about what yoga is, and now I love it!"

Preschool Teacher
Georgia.

"My son Joseph and I have really enjoyed taking Angel Bear Yoga™ classes. We try not to miss a class. It has been a great bonding experience for us!"

Belinda, Mother
in North Carolina.

"I am so glad that my boys are participating in Angel Bear Yoga™ classes! Without realizing it, they are learning relaxation techniques and values that will stay with them for a lifetime. They look forward to the new poses they learn each week and return to share them with me. In an age in which children are surrounded by opportunities to be sedentary, Angel Bear Yoga™ provides a wholesome active outlet."

Sheri Grace, Ms. Ed.
Mother and Education Specialist.

From kids using Angel Bear Children's Yoga:

"Have you ever felt really mad at someone? So mad that you were ready to pull your hair out? That happens to me, but now with Angel Bear Yoga™ I have a way to help me relax, stretch and have fun!" Angel Bear Yoga™

Student
Age 9.

"I like Angel Bear Yoga™ because it relaxes me."

Nicole
North Carolina.

"I like Sweet Pea - she's my favorite!"

Marie
North Carolina.

"I like Angel Bear Yoga™ because it shows me answers to things."

Alex

"I like learning about all the animals!"

Crystal
North Carolina.