A review and a giveway to brighten your January. Leave a comment after this review to enter for a chance to win a copy of the Shanti Generation DVD. Draw date is Feb 1st.
I’ve spent the past week watching and exploring the Shanti Generation: Yoga Skills for Youth Peacemakers DVD. It is fabulous! Abby Wills has created a wonderful tool for teens to discover yoga and peace. With all poses, exercises and sequences demonstrated by teens, along with Abby’s calm narrative and guidance, and a grovin’ soundtrack, this DVD is a tool all teens can use to discover and practice yoga.
I especially liked Abby’s verbal cues while the teens do the poses. She provides gentle but specific instructions that guide and deepen the practice bringing awareness to the body and mind. There is plenty of variety here from active sequences to calming ones which is useful for teens to be able to choose their workout according to their personal needs on any given day. The teens themselves are wonderful and perform the poses properly, with intention and joy.
On the DVD you’ll find:
- Pathways - 5 different 30 minute yoga routines
- Library of Poses – 18 mini sequences
- Breathing Room – 5 breathing exercises
- Self-Connection – 2 awareness practices
- Interviews with the teen yogis
- Spanish and Japanese translations
From packaging to the underlying message this DVD is designed to respect nature and promote peace. It’s wonderful to see a DVD made specifically for those aged 10-15. The vocabulary, set, teen models, and concepts are age appropriate but also can apply to adults, which makes it ideal for parents/teachers and pre-teens/teens to do together.
I will be recommending this DVD during my workshop Yoga for Teens as a tool parents, teachers, youth leaders, and counsellors can use to practice yoga with youth. Thank you Shanti Generation for creating such a wonderful resource. It is desperately needed and will be well used.
Finding a way to get across to teens in so needed by so many. I truly believe out of all of us out here that teens practicing yoga can be so beneficial to them and us adults too. Being able to exercise their minds, spirits, and bodies in an understanding and supportive setting can make all the difference.
Thanks for the review and to Shantigeneration for the making of the video.
Candace
Thank you for this! I am looking for resources to expand my own skills in working with this age group, and resources that I can share with the teachers I work with. Looks like this is something I need to take a look at!
Many thanks!
Marcia Wilson lilayoga108@gmail.com
Sounds like a great resource. I am going to begin teaching Tweens and teens this April and am going to look into this DVD! Thanks for the review!
Sounds like a winner.
Have been wanting to buy this for myself and my boys (12 & 15), and just haven’t as of yet. I LOVE that this movement is snowballing and youth are becoming more and more aware….what a wonderful world it would be if there were Shanti generation workshops in every city and every country…..this is possible I know it! The DVD, local yoga, & more awareness for yoga in our schools is a wonderful start! Thanks Shanti generation….and LOVE the facebook page!!! Namaste
Donna,
Thank you kindly for the lovely review! We poured our hearts into this project to provide a resource for teachers, parents and youth. As a yoga teacher in schools, I am constantly looking for ways to enrich the experience and get my students practicing at home! We appreciate all that you do to uplift the school yoga community.
Shanti,
Abby
we have been searchng for a portal to introduce yoga to high school kids in our town. this DVD might be the entry point we use to involve the physical education teachers in sharing yoga! THANKS and namaste
I am so excited to discover Shanti Generation… Im a mother of two and I am especially interested in holistic, community building ways to work with tween/teen girls, introducing them to the mind/body/spirit connection and practices they can use for a lifetime. Thank You!
Looking forward to checking this resource out. I am a social worker in Child Welfare as well as a yoga teacher and wanting to offer yoga classes to teens in group homes.
this sounds great! thanks for sharing!
thanks for the review, it looks great.
This DVD sounds fantastic. What a great resource. Much needed. Thank you. Namaste.
Wow! It’s great to see DVDs to focus on working with teens…I’ve been teaching Yoga for anger management in alternative school-really a great experience…so rewarding…. I can’t wait to watch that DVD and sharewith my yoga group. Thank you! Namaste!
Too cool:) I am hoping to some day teach yoga to all ages. I’m currently helping a friend find the enthusiasm for yoga;) I think that a video of kids or teens doing it might help her to feel like she can. She loves kids… so I thought that she might feel less intimidated by ones designed for younger people. I’m looking for ones that are more relaxed. This is such a great idea. And I’ve shown some yoga to my nieces.. it won’t be many more years till they’re teens…. I’m so happy to have found this site. Many of my parent friends seem enthused about their kids learning yoga. And the kids simply love it.. They eat it up like candy:) Again I’m hoping to become a teacher ( certified ) of it in the next few years. I’d love to hear more experiences of people who teach it to the younger peeps. Thanks for gifting the world with you;)
Great job with this DVD. Starting kids out early will help in so many ways. Getting yoga into early educational systems is what I would like to help out with.
Steve