Here at YIMS we’ve been busy collecting and compiling yoga games to include in our soon to be released Yoga Games Galore book. One of the games we love and are including in the book is Yoga Memory. The very day we were adding it, Janet Williams of Childrens Yoga Books got in touch telling me about Yoga Match: A Memory & Movement Card Game. (Gotta luv serendipity.)
Played like concentration or Memory, Yoga Match involves flipping over two cards at a time in order to find a match. If you find a match you do victory pose. If you don’t find a match you do both poses, then flip the cards back over and try again.
As you can guess kids LOVE Yoga Match. It’s familiar rules allow them to jump right into playing the game. The challenge of finding a match is wonderful for developing concentration, recognition and recall. Adding the yoga element allows for active learning promoting strength, flexibility, creative expression, cognition and self-regulation.
The deck is comprised of 30 cards (15 yoga poses) plus one instructional card. The game can be played individually or in teams making it adaptable to various size groups in the home or classroom/studio. Bonus is that you can always use the cards themselves as a yoga card deck for any number of other activities which require visuals as a teaching aid.
Things I like about Yoga Match:
- familiar rules get you playing right away
- charming illustrations of both a boy & girl doing the poses
- easy to transport – pop in your purse/pocket
- sturdy cards can take a lot of use
- FUN!
I’m definitely looking forward to using this game with my kids and teen yoga classes this fall and know it will be a class fave.
You can purchase Yoga Match from Childrens Yoga Books online store for $19.99 CAD (a current savings of $6.00).
How to Enter the Giveaway
We are giving away one Yoga Match: A Memory & Movement Card Game. Enjoy any of these ways to enter. Enter often and share the #kidsyoga love.
- Leave a comment with your fave yoga game
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- Share this review on Facebook & include a @Yogainmyschool.com link – limit 1/day
- Tweet the #giveaway on Twitter with a @DonnaKFreeman link – limit 1/day
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Contest closes Friday, Aug 31, 2012 at 9:00 pm MDT
Winner will be contacted via e-mail and their name will be posted. You’ll have 24 hours to claim your prize before another winner is chosen. Winner’s e-mail address will be shared with Childrens Yoga Books for administrative purposes only.
Disclaimer: I am in no way reimbursed for this review. Product was generously provided for the review. The opinions expressed here are completely my own.
Read my review of Janet’s book What I See, I Can Be – a lovely guided yoga flow for children.
UPDATE: Congratulations to Jen Mueller the winner of Yoga Match Game. Watch for more give aways coming this fall.
My current favorite yoga game is musical mats. Kids move from mat to mat (in a circle) as fun music plays and then when it stop they flip over the card on the mat with a pose (can make your own or use the Yoga for classrooms or Yoga pretzels cards) where the stop and everyone does the pose on their card. Love the memory card idea and hope to win one to be able to use in on of my classes! Thanks!
A favorite yoga game is ‘sleeping crocodiles’. We lie down on our bellies and begin to snore while one child carefully tiptoes through our legs. If we feel or hear her, the sleeping beasts awaken and snap their jaws!
Hi! My fave yoga game would be Freeze Dance.Kids dance or run along to lively music,when the music stops they freeze in a yoga pose.You can let the kids freeze in their fav pose of call one out for them.They just love it and always ask for this game,so I usually save it until the later portion.
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My favorite yoga games are generally Musical Mats and Freeze Dance Game. Always a good time…
This Memory Match game looms fun!
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Thanks for offering giveaways!
My group likes the Island game from YogaEd. Its like musical chairs; when the music stops, you have to land on an “island” doing a yoga pose with some part of your body touching the island. As the islands are taken away, it becomes a cooperative game. At the end everybody is touching one island and doing their own poses.
The Yoga Match game looks like fun!
The kids ALWAYS love the freeze dance. A new favorite of mine is moving along to the song “Yoga Slide” by Haris Lender from Kidding Around Yoga. The kids love that one too!
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I’m a big fan of the yoga garden game………but if we’re talking no props games – freeze dance yoga is awesome!
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My favorite yoga game is sitting in circle and close there eyes. one kid go around with bell and pass the bell to another kid. keeps them calm. great way to start meditation.
Hello, my name is Nuria and my favorite game is the game of the pompoms: You put a lot of pompoms in the center of a circle of children and put plastic cups and baskets outside the circle. Children must keep their hands behind their backs and use only their feet to get the pompoms and drop the baskets. Children enjoy using only one foot, collecting pompoms with both feet, or distribute the pompoms in different colors within the baskets. is fun and hold the attention throughout the game!.
We love to play “yoga pretzels” form the yoga pretzels card deck…taking turns,each child is teacher and names a body part to touch to the ground, to form some sort of “pose”…”elbows, knees, chin, toes”….Every time I have used this in class, it has been a hit!Kids are empowered, because they are teacher,creating poses for their class, and we are all trying out something new with our bodies! I am so excited there is a new, fun game to incorporate! We are ready!!!!
Our favorite yoga game of the year seemed to be massage train! They love it!
I would love to win this game!
Our favorite game in OMazing Kids is creating a yoga obstacle course. Thanks for offering this great giveaway! The kids in my Inclusive Kids Yoga Classes and Therapeutic Yoga Group at the JD McCarty Center for Children with Developmental Disabilities would love this.
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Looking forward to your new book about yoga games!
Tweeted about your great giveaway…. the kids at JDMC would love this game
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I love secret handshake where the kids partner up and make up a yoga “handshake” (short dance/routine) and then they all perform for each other.
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My favorite Yoga game is Crab Walk! I love the way children laugh and share their expierences! I love to play Crab Balloon soccer where I introduce a balloon and make 2 teams! Its so much fun!
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These cards look like a great supplement! Look like so much fun & helpful tool to aid in teaching yoga poses. I’m proudly working as a Program Assistant at a Child Development Center at an USMC base in North Carolina at a Child. Serving our military families has been an honor. Yoga is a major part of my life and implementing at my work has been phenomenal. The kids have very much enjoyed yoga lessons and I am in process of getting other teachers involved with yoga, too. The YogaInMySchool website has been so easy to use & incredibly helpful to me when I was trying to figure out the best way to teach the yoga to the kids. I have liked both the YogaInMySchool & ChildrensYogaBook on Facebook. This yoga match game would be an excellent resource to have to help implement the yoga practice. Thanks for an amazing informative website!
I play a variation of move & freeze to Lori Berkner’s “Sneaks” that I call Sneaky Trees. The kids tiptoe around the room when the music plays and freeze in the poses I call out when it stops. (No problem sharing this but feel free to credit me with the idea and/or track me down and follow me on Facebook as a way of saying thanks.)
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I’d love to use the Yoga Memory Game in my classes for Children with Special Intentions. Among other things,games are great for socialization, role playing and modeling of behavior. I try to include at least one game during my classes and kids always ask for them. All your ideas are absolutely amazing! Thank you from all of us.
Liked your FB page. Love your creative ideas use some every week in my 2.5-5 and 5-7 year old classes!
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my favorite games are yoga garden game and yoga bingo board games..
I love playing musical mats. Each mat has a yoga pose and when the kids are moving around you take on away when the music stops they find a mat. In the end the whole group is doing one pose on one mat. Lots of fun!!
I love yoga freeze tag! I love teaching my students fun games and doing amazing activities with my students I would love to win these cards!!