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About Giselle Shardlow
Giselle Shardlow, M.Ed., is the award-winning author of Kids Yoga Stories. Her yoga books for kids get children learning, moving, and having fun. Giselle draws from her experiences as a teacher, traveler, yogi, and mom to write the yoga stories found at www.kidsyogastories.com/store or on Amazon (amazon.com/author/giselleshardlow) worldwide. The purpose of her yoga books is to foster happy, healthy, and globally educated children. She lives in Boston with her husband and daughter.
Polly's Perfect Pet
Family Choice Award 2021
Elizabeth and the Magnolia Fairy
Family Choice Award 2019
Mia's Mountain Hike
Family Choice Award 2018
The Grateful Giraffe
IPNE Children's Book 2017
Katie's Karate Class
Family Choice Award 2017
Anna and her Rainbow-Colored Yoga Mats
Family Choice Award 2016
Trish's Fall Photography
Foreword INDIES Finalist 2016
Rachel's Day in the Garden
IPNE Book of the Year and Children's Book 2015
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Blog postHappy Independence Day!
We have been living in our adopted country of United States for over eleven years now and finally getting into the groove of the July 4th cookout. Given that my hubby is Australian, we love the idea of an all-day barbecue. I’d love to share some Independence Day for kids yoga sequences, yoga cards, books, and activities to celebrate this special day.
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Blog postOh, Canada! Though I left my birthplace of Canada over twenty years ago, the country is still my home. I miss the British Columbian forests, animals, camping, culture, and hiking. To ensure that our daughter grows up knowing about her heritage, we have lots of Canadian-themed books, stuffed animals, figurines, and puzzles. With Canada Day […]
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Blog postJump into the fun and adventurous Read Beyond the Beaten Path summer reading theme this summer! Think camping under the stars, roasting s’mores over a campfire, discovering animal tracks, doing arts and crafts with nature items, or hosting outdoor talent shows!
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So if you’re looking for a fun yoga theme where you can pretend to fly, waddle, and perch, why not try Birds Yoga to learn about these interesting animals? Below, you’ll find five bird books for kids that highli1 month ago Read more -
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Titles By Giselle Shardlow
WINNER OF IPNE CHILDREN'S BOOK 2017
Express your feelings through yoga poses for toddlers!
Join our six yoga kids from around the world as they learn about various animals and relate their behaviors to our feelings. Be a caring koala, a cranky crocodile, or a curious cat. Visit countries around the world, learn about various animals, and talk about feelings!
This feelings yoga book for toddlers and preschoolers includes a list of kids yoga poses and a parent-teacher guide.
Help children express what they’re feeling with ease. Through the simple vignettes that take your child through the animal world, children can learn about the variety of emotions and feelings that arise while striking a fun corresponding yoga pose.
Engaging design and bright colorful pictures. This book easily captures the attention of children from ages 3 and up. The design is clear, and the illustrations engaging, so they're easy to follow. The pose examples that correspond with the story help children visualize the pose and practice with confidence.
Colorful pose demonstrations and yoga tips. This book also includes a handy pose index and pose instructions, so you'll feel confident introducing these moves to your children and even playing along.
Get kids reading AND moving. This book is more than a storybook. It introduces your children to engaging animals and characters who will get your child laughing, moving, and finding the words for their feelings. Reading is good for the mind and body. The story links several yoga poses in a specific sequence to create a coherent and meaningful story while providing a unique experience.
Introducing children to yoga has many positive benefits now and in the future. Yoga has been shown to help children:
-Reduce anger, depression, and fatigue so that they can better manage and cope with big emotions and low moments of life now and long into the future.
-Ease anxiety, stress, and tension so that they can focus on the positive aspects of life and lead happier lives.
-Improve stress management and teaches them healthy, productive ways to manage challenging tasks in school and tension-filled times.
-Enhance focus, attention, concentration, comprehension, and memory so they can better perform in school and other activities they enjoy.
-Provide opportunities for patience, reflection, and self-insight, thereby reducing problem behaviors.
-Increase resilience and coping frequency so that challenges and set-backs don’t derail them from their goals in life.
-Increase flexibility, strength, and balance increasing their self-confidence thereby promoting a healthy body-image and creating healthy habits around physical activities.
Kids Yoga Stories introduce children to engaging characters who will get them laughing, moving, and creating. Reading is good for the mind AND body! The book links several yoga poses to create a coherent and meaningful sequence for very young children.
Learn how to conquer your feelings and build confidence through this fairy yoga story!
Join Elizabeth on an adventure in Fairyland! While playing in an adventure playground, Elizabeth becomes anxious about crossing the ropes course. Then she meets a fairy who helps her learn the valuable lesson of taking one step at a time. Can the fairy help Elizabeth overcome her anxiety?
Kids Yoga Stories introduce you to engaging characters who will get your child learning, moving, and having fun. This fairy yoga book for ages 4 to 7 is more than a storybook, but it's also a unique experience for young children.
Give Your Children the Healthy Benefits of Yoga with this Kids Yoga Stories Beach Story!
¡Únete a la Aventura de Lucas en la Playa! Salta como un canguro, reposa como una gaviota y descansa como una estrella de mar mientras recorres este viaje en una playa de la costa este australiana. ¿Qué más podrías ver? ¡Aprende algo nuevo, explora tus movimientos y diviértete!
Includes List of Kids Yoga poses and a Parent-Teacher Guide. Learn something new, explore movement, and have fun together!
Kids Yoga Stories introduce you to engaging characters who will get your child laughing, moving, and creating. Reading is good for the mind AND body! The story links several yoga poses in a specific sequence to create a coherent and meaningful story.
This book for ages 3 to 7 is more than a storybook, but it's also a unique experience for children.
This book is the Spanish version of Luke's Beach Day.
Share the Healthy Benefits of Yoga with this Kids Yoga Stories Spring Time Lesson Plan!
Celebrate Spring with these spring and Easter-inspired yoga poses for kids. Be a bee, bird, or butterfly as you embrace the changing of the seasons with your children. What else might you see and do?
Includes ten spring-inspired yoga poses, seven Easter-inspired yoga poses, and fifteen extension activities to experience with your 4 to 8 year old. Practice yoga at home, in the park, in your classroom, or at your local yoga studio. Learn something new, explore movement, and have fun together!
Experience the benefits of yoga while learning about the signs of spring!
Join Rachel as she and her adorable puppy look for signs of spring in the garden. Crawl like a caterpillar, buzz like a bee, and flutter like a butterfly. Discover spring, explore movement, and learn the colors of the rainbow.
Exciting story that brings spring alive. Rachel and her puppy look for signs of spring in their colorful garden. They invite the reader to explore what they discover through fun and simple yoga movements including tree pose, warrior pose, squat pose, and more.
Get kids reading AND moving. This book is more than a storybook. It introduces children to engaging characters who will get them laughing, moving, and creating. Reading is good for the mind and body. The story links several yoga poses in a specific sequence to create a coherent and meaningful story while providing a unique experience.
Engaging design and bright colorful pictures. This book easily captures the attention of children from ages 3 and up. The design is clear, and the illustrations are realistic, so they're easy to follow. The pose examples that correspond with the story help children visualize the pose.
Colorful pose demonstrations and yoga tips. This book also includes a handy pose index and pose instructions, so you'll feel confident introducing these moves to your children and even playing along.
Introducing children to yoga has many positive benefits now and in the future. Yoga has been shown to help children:
Reduce anger, depression, and fatigue so that they can better manage and cope with big emotions and low moments of life now and long into the future.
Ease anxiety, stress, and tension so that they can focus on the positive aspects of life and lead happier lives.
Gain stress management skills.
Learn healthy, productive ways to manage challenging tasks in school and during tension-filled times.
Enhance focus, attention, concentration, comprehension, and memory so they can better perform in school and other activities they enjoy.
Provide opportunities for patience, reflection, and self-insight, thereby reducing problem behaviors.
Increase resilience and coping frequency so that challenges and set-backs don’t derail them from their goals in life.
Increase flexibility, strength, and balance increasing their self-confidence thereby promoting a healthy body-image and creating healthy habits around physical activities.
Practice any one of these 30 breathing techniques to release stress and tension. Help your children feel calm and focused with breathing exercises like Balloon Breath, Bee Breath, and Bunny Breath.
This book is for primary school teachers, kids yoga teachers, parents, caregivers, health practitioners, and recreation staff looking for simple, convenient ways to add breathing exercises into their curriculum, classes, or home life.
Get children using their breath to help them to calm and focus with these quick and easy breathing techniques!
From the award-winner author Giselle Shardlow of Kids Yoga Stories. Kids Yoga Stories has a variety of yoga card decks, yoga books, classroom yoga resources and more. www.KidsYogaStories.com
Yoga Books for Kids by Giselle Shardlow include:
Mia’s Mountain Hike
The Grateful Giraffe
Sophia’s Jungle Adventure
Anna and her Rainbow-Colored Yoga Mats
Good Night, Animal World
Katie’s Karate Class
Rachel’s Day in the Garden
Trish’s Fall Photography
Jenny’s Winter Walk
Many of the books above are available in Spanish and eBook format.
Give your Children the Healthy Benefits of Yoga with this Kids Yoga Stories Beach Lesson Plan!
Go on a fun and interactive beach adventure. Be a swimmer, surfer, or shark as you act out a trip to the beach. What else might you see and do?
Includes twenty kids yoga poses and twenty extension activities to experience with your 4 to 8 year old. Practice yoga at home, in the park, or at your local yoga studio. Learn something new, explore movement, and have fun together!
How can we help children mitigate stress, anxiety, and depression and build resiliency during this chaotic time?
Unprecedented times require new tools and strategies to help our kids cope and manage their ever-expanding feelings and emotions.
We need tools that meet children where they're at.
Exploring Emotions in 10 Minutes a Day!
It will be your new daily check-in with your children to figure out how they’re really doing!
Children can visually identify their feelings and explore them through movement, story, and breathing exercises so you can gauge how your children are feeling generally and in the moment.
Exploring emotions for just 10 minutes a day can:
* Ensure you have a routine for regularly checking in with your children’s emotional states… that goes beyond simply asking “How are you?” and getting a shrug or a scream.
* Help you work with your children around big feelings… even when they lack the words to express their feelings and emotions adequately.
* Provide you with a regular tool to help your children breathe, calm down, and self-regulate… even when schedules are packed and unpredictable or learning is partially/fully at a distance.
* Teach children simple self-regulation and resiliency skills that you can easily incorporate at home or in a classroom… without having to plan, think about it, or find new resources.
* Give children new tools to regulate their bodies and emotions… so they can manage the ups and downs that come with changes in routine, schooling, and schedules.
* Encourage healthy interactions and connections between you and your children and between peers or siblings… even if children are frustrated, short-tempered, or agitated.
Spark your imagination and get your kids to self-regulate, breathe, and move!
Experience the benefits of yoga with your children or students by acting out what you see and hear in winter with this interactive yoga story, Jenny’s Winter Walk!
Join Jenny as she meets various animals on a winter walk with her mom. Be a squirrel, a fox, and a bunny. Discover winter, explore movement, and learn the five senses.
The yoga storybook includes a list of kids yoga poses and a parent-teacher guide.
Kids Yoga Stories introduce you to engaging characters who will get your child laughing, moving, and creating. Reading is good for the mind AND body! The story links several yoga poses in a specific sequence to create a coherent and meaningful story.
This winter yoga story for ages 2 to 5 is more than a storybook, but it’s also a unique experience for children.
Give Your Children the Healthy Benefits of Yoga with this Kids Yoga Stories Adventure Book!
Join Sophia on her jungle adventure! Fly like a toucan, slither like a snake, and flutter like a butterfly as you act out this journey through a Costa Rican jungle. What else might you see?
Kids Yoga Stories introduce you to engaging characters who will get your child laughing, moving, and creating. Reading is good for the mind AND body! The story links several yoga poses in a specific sequence to create a coherent and meaningful story.
This book for ages 4 to 7 is more than a storybook, but it's also a unique experience for children.
Enjoy the Healthy Benefits of Yoga with this Kids Yoga Stories Valentine’s Day Lesson Plan!
Celebrate Valentine’s Day through this heart-opening yoga sequence. You start with a Loving Kindness visualization, and then a yoga sequence with a combination of backbends, chest openers, and shoulder stretches.
This lesson plan includes seventeen kids yoga poses, twelve love-themed books, and ten extension activities to experience with your four to eight year old. Practice yoga at home, in the park, in your classroom, or at your local yoga studio. Enjoy a unique experience with your child for this love-filled day. Relax, connect, and love through yoga poses for kids.
Give Your Children the Healthy Benefits of Yoga with this Kids Yoga Stories Adventure Book. Learn the alphabet with Luke’s ABC’s of Australian Animals!
Curl up like a koala, hop like a kangaroo, and waddle like a wombat as you act out Australian animals through this unique and interactive alphabet book. The book includes an alphabetical list of Kids Yoga Poses and a Parent-Teacher Guide.
Kids Yoga Stories introduce you to engaging characters who will get your child laughing, moving, and creating. Reading is good for the mind AND body! This book for toddlers and preschoolers is more than a storybook, but it's also a unique experience for children.
Learn something new, explore movement, and have fun together! A matching coloring book, Luke's A to Z of Australian Animals, is also available.
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