Kids everywhere are doing yoga at home in record numbers. And parents aren’t even having to convince their children to do it. Cosmic Kids Yoga is a wildly popular yoga video series that launched on YouTube in 2011. Now, there’s app for that… and it’s the number one yoga app for kids in the world.

Produced by Jaime and Martin, a husband and wife team, they began making simple videos featuring Jaime set against a green screen depicting a variety of enchanted places. But what makes the video series engaging and fun for kids is the storytelling.

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Jaime, an actor and yoga teacher, has a bubbly personality and a Mary Poppins-like British accent. She decided to combine yoga poses and stories to re-tell popular epic tales like Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone, Star Wars: A New Hope, Frozen, The Wizard of Oz, and many others. Their YouTube channel has more than four hundred other videos.

According to recent reporting in Forbes, the couple decided to make the leap from YouTube to an app because of issues teachers and parents were facing with age-inappropriate ads popping up before the start of the lessons.

Some of the Cosmic Kids videos go beyond yoga and teach kids about mindfulness, empathy, relaxation, and dance. Some videos also have specific themes that teach skills like how to get focused or remain calm.

There are even videos featuring ideas about working together, falling asleep, and meditation. And for parents who are thinking about homeschooling in the upcoming school year, the site offers yoga lesson plans, guided meditations, game packets, and other educational supplements.

According to research published by Harvard Medical School, “Yoga and mindfulness have been shown to improve both physical and mental health in school-age children (ages 6 to 12). Yoga improves balance, strength, endurance, and aerobic capacity in children. Yoga and mindfulness offer psychological benefits for children as well. A growing body of research has already shown that yoga can improve focus, memory, self-esteem, academic performance, and classroom behavior, and can even reduce anxiety and stress in children.”

Cosmic Kid videos are also being featured on Camp YouTube, a free online summer camp experience for kids and teens. While the original Cosmic Kids YouTube channel is still the primary place people find their free videos, the app has ad-free videos and additional features and resources for educators, kids, and parents for a nominal monthly subscription fee. And, the producers say, the videos on YouTube will always be free.

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