Good Morning Yoga: A Pose-By-Pose Wake Up Story [Hardcover]

Calm and awake, I can do this!

is all I need to say.

A deep breath in, a long breath out

I am ready for the day!

This wake up story is so much more than a story. Its a practice for kids and parents to greet the morning with joy and embark on their daily adventures with intention and confidence. Turn the page and reach up to the sky, press your feet into the earth, and get ready for a great day!

Yoga helps children learn how to focus, relax, and both self-monitor and self-soothe.Good Morning Yogainstills these four skills and more, enabling children to jumpstart the day with excitement and meet the adventures that come with mindfulness and perspective. Kid Power Yoga founder Mariam Gates weaves gentle exercises with a heartwarming narrative and wonderful illustrations to empower children to manage the energies that visit throughout the day. Includes an intention-setting visualization.

Mariam Gates
Mariam Gatesholds a masters in education from Harvard University and is the creator of the renowned Kid Power Yoga. She is the author of the bestsellingGood Night Yogaand many other yoga-related books for children. She lives in Northern California. For more, see mariamgates.com.
Sarah Jane Hinder
Sarah Jane Hinder,illustrator, creates acrylic artwork for a variety of childrens books, includingGood Morning Yoga, The Three Little Pigs, andThe Elves and the Shoemaker. She lives in Manchester, England, with her husband and two chihuahuas. See sarahjanehinder.com.

After helping young readers gently end their days in Good Night Yoga (2015), Gates and Hinder return with a salutation for their mornings. . . Hinder's playful illustrations animate Gates' descriptions and affirmations. Each character fully embodies his or her pose as if ready to leap off the page. The balance of bold and soft colors mirrors the energizing yet focused movementl32