You Are a Lion!: And Other Fun Yoga Poses

We bought this book to get a very young child started with yoga. Somewhat to my surprise, it's already a firm favourite which my son often picks out for himself. At 22 months, although he only started walking at 20 months, he already enjoys doing all the poses (especially the lion and the snake). You might need to have done some yoga yourself to get the most out of it (the word Namaste is used in the opening and closing verses) but the pictures are pretty self-explanatory for explaining the positions. We have found it goes well with the (non-yoga) 'From Head to Toe' by Eric Carle, which also uses animals to encourage movement and has more straightforward/repetitive text (the yoga book is written in not very good verse - but it's certainly not bad enough to be off-putting, either to the child or to whoever's reading). The pictures are lovely and the book is well designed: there is the surprise element of getting into the pose on the first opening and then having the associated animal revealed on the next page, and for all the animals that have an associated noise, it is mentioned in the verse, to reinforce learning animal noises. I've not tried any other yoga books to see how it compares but I'm glad we chose this one as a starter.

my daughter enjoys this book so much, doing all of the actions/poses. i was not dissapointed. the pictures and explanations /story is so lovely. Namaste, from one happy customer

I bought this for my friend’s little boy’s christening. Having met through pregnancy yoga and going on to mum and baby yoga, it was the perfect gift. The illustrations are beautiful and it’s full of positive messages for children reading it. It’ll definitely encourage them to try out the stretches themselves, thankfully they’re not too challenging!

Super cute book. My daughter loves it and I get to learn more yoga poses!

Great fun for young kids to get them involved in yoga! We love it!!