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I must say that I have been slacking when it comes to working out, exercise, and yoga for the last year. I lost my momentum and have not gotten it back until recently. Partly due to winning a month membership to Curves and because baby girl has been really excited about exercise. Given our family history I thought it would be good for both of us to do it together.
As I was browsing I noticed an opportunity for Lazy Lizards Yoga mats and it got me thinking - both kids enjoy yoga and thought this would be a great way to cultivate joy in exercise. As a bonus, the folks at Lazy Lizards are going to giveaway a yoga mat to one lucky winner.
My six year old has a fascination with yoga. It started when I use to drag out my mat to work out to Pilates and yoga DVDs when he was a toddler and then grew when there use to be a kid's series on our cable on-demand fitness channel. Both, sadly, have stopped.
In my attempt to find something fitting for him to do, I came across a review opportunity for Storyland Yoga from Playful Planet. I had no idea what to expect. The cover is cute and all but would it hold his attention? Would it hold mine? Will he learn the poses?
I made the husband set up the TV in the living room this past weekend so we could try it out and record it. He put the DVD on and our son started to follow along. Since I was in another room when it started when I joined them I felt like I was missing something, this guy is just telling a story. I even made them start it over but I had not missed anything. The DVD was not what I expected. It was better!
The DVD starts with the handsome yoga instructor, Ahmed Fahmy, just telling a story, about eggs. Condor eggs, specifically, that they found in the woods and they have to get them back to where they should be and they will have to go on a long trek to get them home.
No introduction, no going over poses, nothing, just the instructor telling a story. Sure, he did some actions with the story telling and the cute kids followed his cues, as did my cute kid, but I was expecting him to instructed them in proper poses not tell a story.
I lost interest. I half watched as I filmed the little video but my son kept going, kept doing the actions and then something unexpected happened - it ended and with the end the kids in the video executed a series of yoga poses as they should, as I expected them to do right from the start. My son was also able to go through the sequence but, as you can see from the video, still needs a lot of practice.
It was pretty brilliant how Ahmed Fahmy and Playful Planet went from story to yoga. He went slow, repeated the actions that were more challenging and kept everybody moving for the length of the video. These folks at Playful Planet are pretty ingenious.
Who would have thought?
We are getting better (I've joined a few times) and who knows... maybe we will try going to a class now!
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