By Bonnie Russell 

The best way to start dog pose with little kids is to start in cat pose and lift your bottom up to the ceiling. So that the body becomes a triangle shape with the hands and the feet on the ground.

If children still have their knees on the ground a good idea is to ask the to imagine that they have a tail and that they are wagging it high in the air.

Dog pose can be done with lots of barking lots of tail wagging and can even be done moving around the room.

To bring a love of Dog pose to children try introducing one footed dog pose where the child lifts the other leg up as high as they can behind them. Then rather than calling it one footed downward facing dog pose how about calling it dog peeing on a tree?