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Sweet Dreams Bedtime Visualization for Kids

June 18, 2019 by

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Sweet Dreams

Bedtime Visualization for Kids

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From the bestselling author of the Good Night Yoga series

Get ready to send your little one off to a good night’s sleep with Sweet Dreams: Bedtime Visualizations for Kids.

This book includes eight visualizations that help kids slow down, breathe, and become aware of their bodies so they can relax into a good night’s sleep. Whether they are envisioning flying a kite, making it rain, or rocketing to the moon, Sweet Dreams offers guided narratives that will spark their imaginations, as well as breathing techniques that encourage restful relaxation.

 

Inspired by the popular Cloud Journey Visualization at the end of Good Night Yoga, Sweet Dreams offers proven techniques to help children calm down and settle both physically and mentally so they can enjoy a good night’s rest.

 

Visualizations include Shrinking Down, Blowing Bubbles, Rocketing to the Moon, Making It Rain, Galloping Through a Meadow, Diving Underwater, Flying a Kite, and Bedtime Breathing.

 

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Yoga Friends: A Pose-by-Pose Partner Adventure for Kids

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Yoga Friends: A Pose-by-Pose Partner Adventure for Kids

Time to Buddy Up for Movement, Cooperation, and Imaginative Play

From the creators of Good Night Yoga and Good Morning Yoga comes a beautifully illustrated city adventure that introduces children to the delights and benefits of partner yoga.

Perfect for teaming up with a friend, sibling, parent, or caregiver, each easy practice shows how cooperation helps us to imagine, move, and have fun in a whole new way.

Includes a back-page guide for parents and caregivers, showing how to do each pose and how to connect them into an easy-to-follow flow.

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A Reading of Yoga Friends: A Pose-by-Pose Partner Adventure for Kids

Yoga Friend Reviews

"In a companion title to Good Night Yoga and Good Morning Yoga, pairs of peaceful, bright-eyed children from different ethnic backgrounds collaborate on yoga poses, in a variety of indoor and outdoor settings. In one scene, two sets of kids are “face to face/ and toes to toes” on a sandy beach. At a zoo, children sit back-to-back, mimicking a lizard “basking in the sun,” as two other children perform a yoga imitation of a pink, sushi-eating octopus in a tank: “One small turn and we’re an octopus/ swimming silently so as not to cause alarm./ We move slowly underneath the water,/ arm after arm after arm.” Hinder’s cozy, cartoony pictures clearly demonstrate each yoga pose, while offering a celebration of teamwork and cooperation."

-Publishers Weekly

"Teachers and trained yogis will welcome the return of the diverse cast from Good Morning Yoga (2016) and Good Night Yoga (2015) to introduce playful partner yoga."

-Kirkus Reviews

“Don’t let the playfulness of the illustrations and the simplicity of the narrative mislead you. This is serious yoga instruction, perfectly formatted for a very young audience.”

-Anna Jedrziewski, Retailing Insight

Meditate with Me: A Step-By-Step Mindfulness Journey

August 29, 2017 by

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Meditate with me: A step-by-step mindfulness journey

This accessible and fun guide to meditation and mindfulness is the perfect introduction for young children.

Meditation does a body good, and can even help kids as young as four or five. This practical guide is gentle, clear, and a pleasure to use. Kids will learn how to focus on their breath, on the sensations in their body, and on the sounds around them to help them relax, settle their busy minds, and understand their emotions. Illustrated with cheerful drawings of five animal friends, the book offers step-by-step directions and a repeating refrain.

Praise for Meditate with Me

"A jewel-toned palette, sweet animal faces, and soothing landscapes—combined with a text infused with care—ensure that a child or adult can pick up any part of this book to take a needed break from stress. An impressive, thoughtful collaboration."

-Kirkus

"A calming introduction to meditation."

-School Library Journal

"Mariam Gates presents the gifts of a powerful spiritual practice with irresistible charm and joy. Meditate with Me is a wonderful offering to parents and children alike, a gentle guidebook pointing the way to presence, mindfulness, and peace as we navigate life's ups and downs—day by day, moment by moment, and breath by breath."

-Katrina Kenison, author of Mitten Strings for God: Reflections for Mothers in a Hurry

Good Morning Yoga: A Pose-by-Pose Wake Up Story

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ABOUT GOOD MORNING YOGA

helping kids and families have calm + focused days

Kids love yoga—and it's great for them, so much so that the President's Council has added the practice to the fitness activities in the annual President's Challenge. For parents and caregivers looking for a fun and effective new routine for bedtime, innovative educator Mariam Gates presents Good Morning Yoga, a great way to meet all the moments of a child's day with focus, calm and joy!

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. It's 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!

 

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Praise for Good Morning Yoga: A Pose by Pose Wake Up Story by Mariam Gates, Illustrations by Sarah Jane Hinder

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"A great book that can give our kids the fundamentals of a good life-a life that comes from living from the inside out."

-Congressman Tim Ryan, author of A Mindful Nation

"Mariam Gates' ability to entertain while teaching correct yoga poses at the same time amazes me. Good Morning Yoga is perfect for kids, but I have to admit that I had a blast practicing while reading it, so I wouldn't limit it only to young yogis..."

-Kathryn Budig, yoga teacher and author of Aim True

"Mariam Gates weaves in the beautifully illustrated yoga postures in such a uniquely creative and exciting way...What a great way to start a young life. I wish I'd had this book when I was five!"

-Beryl Bender Birch, author of Power Yoga, Beyond Power Yoga, and Yoga for Warriors

"Good Morning Yoga is absolutely perfect! What a wonderful beginning for children towards a lifetime yoga practice."

- Bryan Kest, Creator of Power Yoga

"Mariam Gates has done it again.Your family will love this accessible adventure into yoga... Kids of all ages will remember the rhythm of her rhymes for years to come."

-Elena Brower, author of Art of Attention

"...Here in lies the secret to unhurried mornings, family harmony, and well-being."

-Katrina Kenison, author of Mitten Strings for God and The Gift of an Ordinary Day

"...I know Good Morning Yogais going to help make the world a better place."

-Sarah Gardner, founder, Yoga Reaches Out

"This joyful and inspiring book offers an incredible way to start your child's day."

- Jennifer Cohen Harper, author, Little Flower Yoga for Kids: A Yoga and Mindfulness Program to Help Your Child Improve Attention and Emotional Balance

"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 movements of the stretches. Young readers will easily see themselves in one of the many diverse children in the book. Also included are a recap of the poses with short instructions and a guided visualization that adults can read to children. An energizing yoga practice portrayed by lively and diverse characters that should inspire multiple readings."

-Kirkus Reviews

Good Night Yoga: A Pose-by-Pose Bedtime Story

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About GOOD NIGHT YOGA

helping kids and families have calm + peaceful nights

Kids love yoga—and it's great for them, so much so that the President's Council has added the practice to the fitness activities in the annual President's Challenge. For parents and caregivers looking for a fun and effective new routine for bedtime, innovative educator Mariam Gates presents Good Night Yoga, a playful yet wholly practical book for preparing for sleep.


This beautifully illustrated, full-color book tells the story of the natural world as it closes down for the night, while teaching children a simple flow of yoga postures inspired by their favorite characters from nature. Moving from "Sun Breath" to "Cloud Gathering" to "Ladybug & Butterfly" and more, readers learn techniques for selfsoothing, relaxing the body and mind, focusing attention, and other skills that will support restful sleep and improve overall confidence and well-being.

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Good Night Yoga, Read by Tami Simon, Founder of Sounds True

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Praise for Good Night Yoga: A Pose by Pose Bedtime Story by Mariam Gates, Illustrations by Sarah Jane Hinder

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"There is nothing more important than teaching stillness and mindfulness to our children. I am endlessly grateful for Goodnight Yoga and the miraculous gifts this book will offer the world one little reader at a time."

- Gabrielle Bernstein, New York Times bestselling author of Miracles Now

"I'm so happy to see a beautiful, accessible book that soothes children into slumber with a healing and restful sequence. The goal is to wind down and prepare for rest with both a calm mind and a calm body– and Mariam Gates has brought this to life masterfully".

-Kathryn Budig

"A lovely way for young children to engage the body, heart, and mind at bedtime, by listening, breathing, bending, and stretching with a parent through the unfolding of a sweet story with delightful pictures."

-Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn, authors of Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting

"As I read through this unimaginably sweet and soothing book, my breath slows and my muscles melt. If I were cozied down in bed right now, I'd surely be asleep. I can't imagine a more luscious night time ritual."

-Brian Leaf, MA, author of Misadventures of a Parenting Yogi

"Thank God for Mariam Gates' book, Goodnight Yoga, which dares to suggest and demonstrate how children can have a practice to help them face the complex world with more awareness, calmness and joy. The illustrations are awesome. It will help kids to stay connected to their body and their breath giving them real tools they will be able to use for the rest of their lives. How empowering for children! There are practices that will serve parents and kids anytime of the day."

-Tommy Rosen Yoga Teacher and Founder of Recovery 2.0

"I highly recommend Goodnight Yoga to parents who want to share the love of yoga with their child. It is a sweet, whimsical and endearing book that I will be reading to my own son as part of our bedtime ritual."

-Melanie Klein, Sociology and Women's Studies professor, and co-editor of Yoga and Body Image: 25 Personal Stories about Beauty, Bravery + Loving Your Body and the co-founder of the Yoga and Body Image Coalition.

"Charming and practical, Good Night Yoga is a gift to parents and children alike. This beautiful offering from Mariam Gates turns a time that is often filled with consternation into one of filled with connection and joy. This one belongs on every child's night stand."

-Nikki Myers, Yoga Therapist and Founder of Y12SR: The Yoga of 12-Step Recovery

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