Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an ARC.

Wow. I wish I could gift this to a yoga teacher friend of mine who teaches kids yoga. She has a BS in exercise science and delayed working on a master's in exercise science. Our complaint about so many things taught in yoga teacher training programs is that things are taught with little science to back them up. This is the book that backs up what it's saying.

I also wish I could gift it to a yoga teacher friend who teaches yoga to teens and women who are in counseling for eating disorders.

This is a great book for any yoga and meditation teacher who is working with children and teens. It's packed with references. I can see it being used in higher-ed courses.

I had a one-day yoga teacher training on how to teach kids yoga, and this book would have been a tremendous resource for me had it been available. I plan to recommend it to my above-referenced friend who also has a special needs child.

This is not a light and fluffy book. This is the real deal. This is the book yoga teachers need if they are teaching kids of all ages.

When I taught yoga to those going through grief counseling, including kids, I could have benefitted from this book at that time.

As someone who taught middle and high school and has a master's in education, I would love to see something like this incorporated into classroom management courses. If you are a school counselor, this is a great resource to have.

I'm writing this on the heels of yet another school shooting, and I'm thinking, "What is going on with our kids? How are we (as a society), failing them?"

The table of contents:

Yoga for Performance
Yoga for Stress
Yoga in Schools: The Example of Sonima/Pure Edge Yoga
Yoga for Anxiety
Yoga for the Prevention and Treatment of Disordered Eating
Yoga for Developmental Disorders
Yoga for Chronic Pain in Children and Adolescents
Yoga for Pediatric Cancer Patients and Survivors

I love this book. I highly recommend it to anyone who teaches yoga to kids or is interested in learning how it can benefit kids (children and adolescents).

Honestly, I wouldn't limit it to K-12. I can see it benefitting yoga college students, too. I work in higher ed, and I hear so many students and our young employees talking about how they struggle with anxiety, depression, and being neurodivergent. I can see student health and counseling centers, as well as rec centers, incorporating this book into their offerings.

This is a fantastic book. While I had an ebook, I can see how a printed book of this would be helpful as a hands-on reference.

Thank you to Catherine Cook-Cottone, PhD, for putting this fantastic resource together. I will be sharing it with my yoga teacher friends who work with children and adolescents.