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The Best Practices Are The Ones Kids Keep Doing
Why choice, connection and meaningful play belong at the heart of kids yoga—with research, practical teaching ideas and a five-minute dragon adventure.
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The Bedroom Generation: Children Need More Life, Not Just Less Screen Time
My teenagers spend much of their time in their bedrooms, too. What helps is finding their interests: strength, confidence, adventure and connection. A research-in...
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Why Your Favourite Stars Practise Yoga and Mindfulness
Footballers, pop stars, superheroes and a gaming legend also need a moment. Meet seven familiar faces who have spoken about yoga or meditation—and find your own r...
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The Child Who Does Every Pose But Still Feels Outside the Circle
Why belonging matters in kids yoga, and how teachers can build connection through partner play, human mandalas and small acts that make room for every child.
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Before We Teach Children Positive Self-Talk, We Should Listen to How Adults Talk to Them
Children’s wellbeing needs an adult curriculum, too. Research, language swaps and practical tools for more thoughtful kids yoga teaching.
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When Children Tell Machines What They Cannot Tell Us
Children are turning to AI for advice, reassurance and emotional support. Here is what parents, educators and yoga teachers need to notice, teach and do.
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Yoga Is Not Automatically Body-Positive: The Teacher Makes the Difference
Yoga can support children’s body confidence, but poses alone are not enough. Teacher language, choice, representation and class culture make the difference.
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Grandpa Gopala Says... A Grandfather's Guide to Growing Up (At Any Age)
A joyful collection of 74 Grandpa Gopala sayings from Rainbow Yoga, gathered into one visual guide for growing up with wonder, play, kindness, courage, and legacy.
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Tiny School Rituals, Huge Young Human Changes
No jargon. No pie charts. Just children breathing, moving, making rainbows and discovering that a few tiny school rituals can create huge young human changes: cal...
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The Future of Education May Be More Playful
What if the future of education is not more screen-based, but more playful, active and human? Explore how play-based and movement-based learning help children bui...
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Why Children Need Elders, Not Just Adults
What My Grandmother’s Strudel Taught Me About Raising Human Beings“Amir! Stop eating the Turkish Delight before the strudel goes into the oven!”I heard those word...
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Intergenerational Yoga: Why Families Need More Than a Group Chat
Parents, grandparents, children, babies, teenagers and one highly unqualified dog, all learning how to belong togetherI am about to become a grandparent.Even writ...
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