When she turned 30, she moved to the country near Henley and decided to retrain as a yoga teacher. “I found that if I told children a story they’d lose interest, but if I included five special moves they had to learn, they were with me all the way.” “And I didn’t want to look like a yoga girl, I wanted to look like Harry Styles from One Direction, mooching around in his onesie.”Īmor took up yoga in her early 20s as a drama student at Bristol Old Vic, and after graduating, she began incorporating poses in the children’s parties she hosted at weekends to earn money between acting jobs. “I thought it’d be more exciting to be in a cartoon world, so a friend drew some for me,” she says. Hers are based around a story – the boys’ favourites are Star Wars and Harry Potter but there are also Frozen, Minions, Trolls, Moana and The Twits workouts – and Amor enacts each story against a colourful illustrated backdrop. “The classes are a physical release but also a mental journey using their imaginations.”Īpart from the poses, which are all classic beginners’ yoga moves such as bridge, warrior and triangle, there are few similarities between a standard yoga class and one of Amor’s workouts.
“I guess kids are enjoying escaping from real life,” she says. “I see pictures on social media of groups of 50 children doing my classes in a school gym.”Īnd, since lockdown, families are discovering her classes too Amor’s views have risen from 100,000 views per day to more than a million. “Teachers have been supporting us since the beginning in 2009,” she explains over Zoom. Jaime Amor, their virtual teacher, isn’t surprised that my children know about Cosmic Kids. Even the four-year-old, who still needs help getting dressed, can do a respectable downward-facing dog. “We do these all the time at school,” Alfie tells me, while holding a particularly impressive tree pose. Every day before bed they tune into the Cosmic Kids Yoga app and, along with thousands of other children across the country, take part in a 25-minute workout led by a woman in a onesie and a wigĮven more unexpected is that they appear to know exactly what they are doing.
An unexpected consequence of lockdown is that my three sons (seven, six and four) have developed a yoga practice.
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