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15 May 2020updated 01 Jul 2021 12:14pm

How Cosmic Kids Yoga became a lockdown sensation

The YouTube channel has achieved daily viewing figures of up to a million by attracting harried parents. 

By Sophie McBain

The easiest way to achieve 30 minutes and 32 seconds of comparative quiet in our house is by turning on a Frozen-themed yoga class created by Cosmic Kids Yoga, a YouTube channel established by Jaime Amor, a British yoga teacher, together with her husband, Martin. In the video, which has been viewed more than 13 million times on YouTube, Amor wears a pink onesie and retells the Disney film Frozen through yoga, striking her poses against a digital psychedelic ice kingdom backdrop.

My three-year-old is transfixed. She likes to perform the routine almost daily, always while wearing a floor-length princess gown. This is how I succeed in occasionally attending a Zoom meeting, putting her baby sister to bed, or cooking dinner without worrying that she may experiment with sticking toys in electric sockets, drawing on the walls, or mysteriously getting her head stuck under her bed (again). 

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