Customer Reviews

Animal Yoga for Kids - African Plains Adventure Level One

5 star:		(26)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(11)

 

 

This is a poor introduction to yoga. On the plus side, my daughter seems engaged by some of it, and it does encourage movement and teaches some fun poses, but it is way too fast-paced and busy, with constant silly interruptions. The story line is practically non-sensical. I am amazed that it even claims on the package to be appropriate for children with ADH. I am not an ADH expert, but, this video is unfocused. The music is a bit raucous and irritating. I was also hoping for more real footage of African animals, but there is hardly any. Overall, disappointing!

I used this video with my primary children in public school. The children LOVED it. They looked forward to doing it over a period of months. Some parents purchased the video for their children at home. Highly recommend!!

I have bought all the kids yoga videos you can find on the market. Animal Yoga is by far the best one out there. My kids love it. They were totally absorbed by the magical world of Wasabi Sunshine and Lil Chi. I believe Yoga benefits kids and Animal Yoga developed a very creative way to teach the kids strong basic skills while having fun. I have noticed tremendous progress in my kids ability to practice the poses in just a few days.

I agree there was not alot of yoga and they are not held for long but the fact that it got out 9 and 7 year old boys INTERESTED, they can practice the moves anytime they want! The great 80's hip hop is so entertaining and colorful tht it keeps their attention, we are planing on getting fingerless gloves and headbands and layer out clothes to really get into it. We homeschool and this was a great intro for the school year to get them moving! We use it as a morning warm up and its great, the kids are talking about how they want to learn hoe to breakdance and walk on their hands, at this age with all those insanely crazy cartoons at least this one was BENIFITIAL as well as fun!

By the way ALL my kids loved this 3 boys ages 4 7 and 9 and a girl who is 5! I highly recommend it if you have kids that wouldnt ever think of doing yoga.....they may just LOVE this video!

This is neither a yoga video not an excericise video of any kind! What a waste of my money!! This video has no African plains, and no safari (unless you count about 5 cartoon animals that flittered through the screen). And there is practically no yoga. If I wanted a video of a bunch of people doing a bit of hip-hop I would have gotten one! Practically nothing is explained. There are two annoying adult women pretending to be dumbed down "fun" little girls. There is a half-naked man. There is lots of loud noise and bright colors, and people pretending to be having fun. But there is zero real content or meaning. Did I mention that if you blink you'll miss the "yoga"?

I bought this DVD based on the three raving reviews it had. Well, I really cannot understand how it got them, and I rather have to agree with the negative one. There is hardly any yoga in this video. It is all rather goofy, with constant interruptions of the yoga poses (which are held for VERY short periods of time) by hip hop and break dance numbers - presumably to "ligthen up"? The kids found it entertaining, but as for making them feel "peaceful and relaxed" as yoga is supposed to - you can forget about that with this one. Even the final "relaxation pose" is held for just about 3 seconds and then interrupted by more goofy cartoons of animals bouncing up and down. Complete waste of my money.

I have a small home daycare and thought this would be great to get the kids up and moving during the long cold winter. Well they range in age from 4 1/2 to 2 and they all hate it. It's not that long and no children were left even looking at it by the time it ended. There were too many weird interuptions and not enough movement and following along. I would not recommned this at all.

I saw one clip on PBS and I said "Wow,"- I had to order it.
 We have had the video for a couple of months. When my daughter doesn't watch it she still practices yoga moves. When is the next one coming out?

I am a first-grade teacher, and I logged on to Amazon to write a review for this video as I have used it in my classroom successfully. I was surprised to see the German review, so I feel obligated to respond as I disagree with it. The content in Animal Yoga is not a traditional yoga class that a parent might expect. However, it gets kids involved immediately, and it is Magic. Kids learn very differently than adults, and as a teacher, I know that the first thing you must do is gain children attention if you want to teach them anything. This video does just that. It is original, and innovative, and kids love it. Highly recommended. Good use of your money, my students request this video everyday. Thank you Animal Yoga for being a positive educational tool in my classroom! 
 

My daughter calls to me when she spots an Animal Yoga Break on PBS. I did some research on the program, and after reading a couple of reviews, I decided to order the DVD for her. In the one week we have owned it, I think she has watched the DVD 50 times trying to master the poses. It is great to see her so excited about physical movement.