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Babu the Yoga Dog

by Hella Hart

36 pages; Saddle stitched; with full-colour illustrations by Francis Czerner; catalogue #04-1529; ISBN 1-4120-3701-8; US$20.00, C$23.00, EUR16.50, £11.50

Do your children love dogs, animals, playing, exercising, stretching and relaxing? Then they will enjoy this book which includes a small supplement with fun things to do.

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About the Book

This book is an understanding on how Yoga was developed.

Babu is a darling little dog, very loving and fluffy. He loves to play hide and seek,with toys and with Balloons and loves to eat pizza and all kind of raw human food. He loves to rest and sleep in his crate. But best of all, he loves to stretch after a good nap. His stretches have names: "downward dog and upward dog."

And that is how the different Yoga poses where born, by observing how animals stretch and relax.

Yoga for children is a good way for them to stretch and relax while they pretend to be different animals. They will feel the difference afterwards by feeling more relaxed and centered. Teachers have told me that they really can feel the difference in the children after they had a Yoga class with me.

There will be a whole series of Babu the Yoga dog books after this first one, with more stories about Babu and more Yoga poses. There will also be more workbooks, Cd's and a video about Yoga for children.

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About the Author

The author, Hella Hart, is an elementary and preschool teacher, dedicated to teaching young children the art of relaxing and concentration through Yoga postures, music, and stories.
Born in Argentina from German parents, she loves children, animals and nature. And she loves to write.

Her 3 boys, Paul, Peter, and Francis are artistic too.
Francis, who went through architecture school at Cal Poly, created the illustrations for Babu the Yoga Dog.

This book was inspired by her dog. Babu, who is a Bichon, is very smart, cute and lovable. He loves people and sitting on laps.
He is of French descent, and was considered the dog of Kings. Henry the III loved to be accompanied by three of them.
Later they became circus dogs because of their intelligence and willingness to work and play.
Bichons don't have fur, but hair which needs to be groomed and trimmed regularly.
They are very expressive dogs and let you know what they want.

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