Family Yoga: Breathe Together, Laugh Together, Thrive Together!

Let’s be real—family life can be beautiful… but also chaotic. Between school runs, meal planning, endless laundry, and negotiations that could put international peace treaties to shame (“Eat your vegetables!” “No!” “Just one bite?” “Never!”), finding quality time together often feels impossible.

But what if there was a way to hit pause, reconnect, and actually enjoy each other’s company—without someone storming off or scrolling on their phone? 

Drums please… Family Yoga!

Why We Need Family Yoga Now More Than Ever

We live in a world moving at hyper-speed. Kids are under pressure at school, parents are juggling a million responsibilities, and let’s not even talk about the mental load of remembering which kid has soccer on which day. 

Family yoga is like a reset button—a moment to stop the madness, breathe together, move together, and remember that, underneath the daily chaos, you actually LOVE each other SO MUCH!

Science Says: Yoga Can Save Your Sanity

Studies show that yoga helps reduce stress, increase focus, and improve emotional regulation in children and adults. One study published in the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics found that children who practice yoga show lower levels of anxiety and better self-regulation skills (Khalsa et al., 2012). And for parents? Another study showed that practising yoga together strengthens family bonds, reduces parental stress, and even improves sleep quality (Field, 2016).

Translation: Yoga can help your child stop having meltdowns over the wrong colour cup, and might even let you get a full night’s sleep. Miracles do happen 🙂

How Family Yoga Works (No, You Don’t Have to Be a Pretzel!)

Family yoga isn’t about perfect poses—it’s about connection. You’ll do partner poses, breathing exercises, and mindfulness games that get everyone moving, laughing, and being present (yes, even the teenager).

  • Breathing together calms the nervous system and magically turns pre-dinner tantrums into moments of Zen.

  • Partner poses build trust and teamwork (and double as hilarious family bonding when Dad topples over… Yes, usually the kids can do it better than us).

  • Mindfulness activities teach everyone to pause before reacting—goodbye, sibling scream-fests!

Stronger Together: The Family That Oms Together, Stays Together

In a world full of distractions, yoga reminds us to slow down, make eye contact, and share a laugh. It helps families rediscover that simple, beautiful truth: we are stronger together.

So, the next time life feels like a whirlwind, roll out a yoga mat (or just clear a space in the living room), breathe deep, and strike a silly pose. You might just find that yoga isn’t just about flexibility—it’s about family resilience.

Because at the end of the day, family yoga isn’t about perfect poses—it’s about perfectly imperfect moments TOGETHER.

 

Want to learn how to share yoga and mindfulness with your children at home or with your students at school?

Join one of our Rainbow Kids Yoga Teacher Trainings today! Click here to sign up!

 

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MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE WITH YOGA AND MINDFULNESS

Rainbow Yoga trained more than 30,000 Kids Yoga Teachers since 2007. We make yoga fun for children and young people of all age groups and for the whole family too! Our yoga consists of many poses and stretches that have different physical benefits for our health and well-being, breathing, relaxation, meditation and mindfulness exercises for our minds, and social interaction, playfulness, meaning, deep life lessons and fun for our spirit.

Thinking about the impact of all those amazing certified yoga teachers, educators, parents and therapists we have trained to teach yoga to children and yoga for teens; we are making a huge difference for the next generation bringing peace, love, kindness and resilience into their lives. Education departments, schools, health programs and individuals in many countries have adopted yoga as a form of exercise and a method to decrees stress and increase wellbeing. We are the biggest and most-loved kid’s yoga teacher training in the world and we are here tp provide you with everything you will need to teach successful, exciting, meaningful, engaging and fun yoga to children, teenagers and families.

THE BEST ONLINE YOGA TEACHER TRAINING – LEARN TOOLS TO HELP KIDS AND FAMILIES FIND CONNECTION, RELEASE STRESS, INCREASE RESILIENCE AND BRING ON A SENSE OF WELL BEING AND MENTAL BALANCE

Rainbow Kids Yoga offers the most comprehensive, practical, and engaging children yoga teacher training certification in the world! Our course will enable you to deliver children yoga classes that will connects your students to themselves, each other, and the environment. Through unique and engaging practices of mindfulness and yoga your students and community will be able to find connections, enhance well-being and thrive as grounded, integrated and well balanced individuals.

At our training, all while having fun, you will become a children yoga instructor through a lot of experiential practice, insightful theory, yoga poses and sequences, mindfulness practices and relaxation. You will learn how to build fun, engaging, and fitness-level-appropriate children yoga classes for all ages, from toddlers to teenagers. At our kid’s yoga teacher training you will find over 300 videos presenting how to make yoga poses accessible and fun! Believe it or not, yoga can be extremely boring for children and for adults too… In Rainbow Yoga, we make yoga in a fun so that children learn easily and want to do more of it. Yoga is so good for you, but for children to want to want to do yoga you will need to learn to spice it all up and this is what our kid’s yoga online teacher training is for!

This is the perfect resource for yoga teachers, parents, educators and therapists to find and discover hundreds of yoga poses, yoga games and mindfulness practices for children in a way that makes it is easy to learn and easy to enjoy.

Yoga poses for kids: Yoga encourages a positive and healthy lifestyle for the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of children as it helps in the development of strength, stamina, and endurance, high levels of positive energy, resilience, focus, self-awareness, and awareness of our environment.

Yoga for children empowers them with increased concentration, calm, peace, and contentment at a mental level leading to inner and outer peace and harmony. The Rainbow Kids Yoga Teacher Training includes a digital manual (a hard copy that can be purchased) as part of the course. This is specialized online yoga teacher training. Here we will focus on how to teach yoga to children and teens, and how to help them release stress, relax, stretch, energize – All in creative and fun ways while taking into consideration their unique needs, whether they are physical, social, mental, or emotional. 

You will learn to teach the youngest yogis and those with emotional and mental challenges techniques to assist them with impulse control and self-regulation. Our courses provide a platform and a foundation to promote the healthy development of the hearts, bodies, and minds of young individuals.

The Rainbow Kids Yoga Training is the largest and most well-regarded Kids Yoga Teacher Training in the world. Our graduates teach everywhere using our diploma including schools, kindergartens, daycare centers, early learning centers, Yoga studios, gyms, fitness centers, birthday parties, private and group classes and more.

 

AFFORDABLE LEARNING AT YOUR FINGERTIPS

Join our Yoga Revolution and become a kids’ yoga teacher today through our online yoga teacher training or in-person yoga certification courses. You will be left with a smile on your face, a wealth of knowledge and an ignited spirit to spread the love and joy of yoga.

For our online training, you can allow 24 hours to receive your access and for physical products such as the Rainbow Kids Yoga Book, you can allow 2-4 weeks to receive it by mail. The books are printed on demand before being shipped, but it is worth the wait 😊

HISTORY OF RAINBOW YOGA

Rainbow Yoga is a fun and constantly evolving family mission and lovingly born in 2007, to give people the tools to teach fun, engaging, and creative in=person and online yoga classes for kids, teens, families, partners, and communities. Rainbow Yoga is interactive and social and all about connection; we touch, hug, move, breathe and co-create together our yoga magically and playfully.

Rainbow Yoga offers a variety of unique and comprehensive teacher training certification courses all over the world offering a well-rounded, in-depth learning experience through a combination of play, practical theory, and fun.The Rainbow Yoga Teacher training is renowned for being captivating, dynamic, loving, and life changing. It is condensed with a lifetime of knowledge and hands-on experience from the Founders of Rainbow Yoga, Gopala, and Angel Yaffa. Delivered by world-class faculty around the world. 

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