In this 5th PassionFit YouTube video, certified health and wellness professional Reena Vokoun leads a mom‑and‑kids yoga session designed to teach families how to incorporate mindfulness and movement into daily life. Reena introduces her two sons and other children, explains the importance of building lifelong stress‑management habits, and sets practical guidelines (yoga mats, water, comfortable clothing, go at your own pace). The workout begins with a belly‑breathing exercise framed as inflating and deflating a balloon, followed by a series of coordinated movements: a shoulder‑width stance with inhalations and exhalations, a “swan‑dive” stretch that emphasizes belly engagement, hand positioning, and safe spinal rolling, and finally a guided Warrior I pose on each side with detailed alignment cues (feet placement, knee position, shoulder relaxation, gaze upward). Throughout, Reena stresses safety, enjoyment, and the bonding experience between parent and child, encouraging participants to listen to their bodies and maintain mindfulness.
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Hi guys, my name is Reena Vokoun and I'm a certified health and wellness professional and the founder of PassionFit. I am so excited to welcome you to my 5th video series for YouTube, which is a mom and kids yoga workout. I've been teaching yoga to children for over 7 years in my son's schools. Speaking of which, I'd like to introduce you to my two wonderful sons and also some of my dear friends and their children as well. They will all be participating with me today. Our goal is to show you how you can include your children in your mind-body workout regimen and instill lifelong habits around mindfulness and movement. With advanced technology, busy schedules, and more pressures on parents, children, and families than ever before, Teaching our children lifelong habits for managing stress is ever more important, and yoga is one of the best activities to do just that, and it's fun. For today's workout, please be sure to have yoga mats and water nearby and wear comfortable activewear. Go at your own pace, have fun, be safe, and enjoy this precious bonding experience. Are you guys ready to get started? Yeah. Let's begin. So we're gonna start with a little bit of belly breathing because belly breathing is so important in yoga. Throughout the entire session. So what we're going to be doing is pretending like our bellies are little balloons, and we're gonna expand our balloons and our bellies out as we inhale through our nose, and then we're gonna blow out and pull the bellies in, or deflate the balloon. So let's try that again. Expand your bellies and your balloons, inhaling through your nose, and then exhale through your mouth and pull those bellies back in. Again, inhale through the nose. And exhale through the mouth. Okay, so what we're going to do next is bring our feet out about shoulder-width apart, and you're gonna give me a big inhale up, bring those arms all the way up. And then you're gonna exhale down, blowing out through your mouth. Let's try that again. Give me a big inhale up. And then exhale down through your mouth. On this third one, give me a big inhale up, and we're gonna act like little swans. We're gonna do a swan dive where you tuck your bellies in, bring your hands out to the side, reach for the ground. And reach as far as you can. Not everybody will be able to touch the ground, and that's okay. But relax your head and neck, and then slowly roll up, bringing your head up last, and roll your shoulders all the way back. Let's try that again. Give me a big inhale up and exhale down. Swan dive, hands out to the side, tuck that belly in. Good job. Relax your head and neck, reach as close to the floor as you can, and then slowly roll it up. Head comes up and roll your shoulders back. Okay, so we're gonna get into our first Warrior I pose. So you're gonna bring your feet together and you're gonna bring your right leg back, bending your left leg, making sure that your knees stay behind your toes and looking up at the ceiling. So hold it here, relax your shoulders, keep them away from your ears. Good, taking some nice deep breaths, tucking in your bellies. And holding in this pose for a few more seconds. And then we're gonna slowly bring our right foot back up and stand up again. Good. And let's do that Warrior 1 pose on the other side. So bring your left leg back, arms reaching up towards the ceiling, tucking in your belly, watching those knees once again, relaxing those shoulders. Good. Continuing to flow with that breath. And then we're gonna bring our feet back together.
