In a world where children adore games and stories, many parents hope for their kids to be joyful, emotionally balanced, and physically healthy. This hopeful aim blends naturally into Koriky the Frog and the Happiness, a picture book that doubles as a practical family or classroom guide to yoga. The author, a yoga teacher who works with kids, has blended two passions into a narrative that teaches by playful example how to practice yoga with others.
Across more than fifty pages, the illustrated tale follows a cheerful frog as a mentor who introduces each step of a full yoga session through play. The book is suitable for reading aloud by parents or teachers and is aimed at children from age three. The guidance remains straightforward. For very young readers, a session can run about twenty minutes, since the length of each phase is guided by the children themselves. The author, trained in children’s yoga instruction, presents the material with clear, accessible language.
With engaging, game-like instructions, Koriky the Frog presents sequence elements as practical activities. The journey covers awareness, warm-up, the base pose, alignment, breathing, relaxation, concentration, meditation, and closing. The pages describe these segments and suggest ways to implement them, such as spontaneous dancing during warm-up, balancing tips for a classic pose, listening to the heartbeat during rest, and many other activities.
The benefits begin with body awareness, helping to improve posture and potentially prevent future issues. Yoga can boost attention, concentration, learning, perception, and memory, contributing to stronger school performance. It also reduces stress and anxiety through visualization, relaxation, and breath control. It fosters values such as confidence, self-esteem, respect, teamwork, gratitude, and empathy, while also stirring creativity and imagination. Sleep quality often improves when sessions happen before bedtime.
When practiced as a family activity, the book highlights additional advantages: it strengthens mutual understanding between children and parents, deepens emotional bonds, enhances harmony and family unity, and reinforces a positive self-image while encouraging growth with respect for the values mentioned above.
In today’s screens-dominant world, tablets and phones can shape leisure time in negative ways. The book notes that kids learn by repetition, and introducing yoga early can help offset certain postural problems caused by extensive screen use. The guide also references therapeutic yoga to show that the neck, back, and lower back are commonly affected by prolonged device use due to forward head posture and slouched shoulders. Vision issues can arise as well. The body awareness developed through yoga supports better posture, reflecting a long journey of practice.
Koriky is described as a symbol of happiness, named after a cheerful ceramic frog that inspired the heroine of the tale during a children’s literature course. Today, Koriky often seems almost alive, modeling different poses on the pages and demonstrating to both kids and adults that practicing yoga brings true happiness.