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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Kids Embark on Yoga Safari!
“Animal Yoga for Kids,” Children’s Play-Along Video that Teaches Children
Yoga Fundamentals
(Los Angeles, CA) Nov. 1, 2003 - Hip beats and catchy rhymes…Yoga time has
never been this fun! Introducing Animal Yoga for Kids, a groundbreaking children’s
video/television play-along program that teaches children non-denominational yogic
exercises to promote healthy physical, emotional, and mental development. Targeting
children ages 4-10, Animal Yoga teaches a progressive series of Yoga poses, taking viewers
on an interactive “Yoga Safari”. Guided by Animal Yoga’s
intriguing live hosts ---Wasabi and Lil’ Chi, children encounter a universe of
adventure meeting loveable and animated animal characters, and learning vocabulary words,
geography, and yogic history along the way.
“Animal Yoga is a fresh and compelling approach to children’s wellness, where
yoga, hip hop, history and fantasy meet,” said Renee Humphrey, co-producer of Animal
Yoga. “Animal Yoga presents an inspirational, effective and interactive
approach to physical wellness for youth in an age when the youth of our Nation are
experiencing a dramatic increase in childhood diseases and obesity.”
Created by yoga master and published breast cancer researcher Bobbi Hamilton and film
industry veteran Renee Humphrey, Animal Yoga for Kids teaches the intrinsic benefits of
Yoga and Health with engaging lessons that incorporate dancing, singing, vocabulary and
cultural awareness. Animal Yoga helps promote healthy physical development and
coordination, fine tunes motor conditions, improves flexibility, and heightens bodily
awareness to help strengthen and tone muscles to aid the prevention of injury.
Additionally, the Animal Yoga practice helps foster self-esteem while building
imagination, creativity, and open-mindedness. Animal Yoga covers all the basic
elements of yoga including Pranayama (breath), asana (posture) technique, relaxation,
mental, physical, inner, and worldly awareness.
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