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Wai Lana is a yoga instructor. This video is designed for 3 to 8 year-olds. It contains a series of exercises aimed at developing balance, co-ordination and muscle strength. After the obligatory warning messages, Wai Lana demonstrates her routines with a group of children in an Hawaiian park with an ocean backdrop.

Each routine is preceeded by a cartoonesque presentation. The children in the film obviously enjoy copying Wai Lana's movements. Three years is probably a little young. The very small girl in the film is allowed to do her own thing and not join in, without being coerced. This adds to the charm and emphasises that the exercise should be treated as fun.

Whilst older children and even adults could benefit from practising some of these routines, most would be put off by the juvenile and twee treatment. For the recommended age range though, this is an interesting introduction to yoga.