UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Good job.</s>CAROL COSTELLO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Yoga is fun, but it also teaches children valuable life lessons, that according to yoga trainer to the stars, Baron Baptiste. It was his passion for kids that inspired him to write the book "My Daddy Is a Pretzel."</s>BARON BAPTISTE, AUTHOR, "MY DADDY IS A PRETZEL": I'm the -- I'm a pretzel. Yoga is a wonderful tool, a wonderful process to really learn about our own bodies, to learn about our thoughts, to learn about our feelings.</s>COSTELLO: He says kids lead busy, stressful lives, and yoga is a great way for them to experience inner calmness.</s>BAPTISTE: It teaches us about how we react to stress and how we can even hold that stress in our bodies, and also a way to undo the stress, to rinse our bodies out like a sponge.</s>MARTHA HALL, MEGAN KELLEHER'S MOTHER: I think it's really teaching her to relax with her body, and that there is really a kind of a mind-body connection.</s>COSTELLO: And Megan's favorite part?</s>MEGAN KELLEHER: Exercise.</s>COSTELLO (on camera): Exercise. That's good. How about relaxing?</s>KELLEHER: Yes.</s>COSTELLO: Do -- yes. (voice-over): A relaxed child. Ah. Carol Costello, CNN.
Yoga Teaches Kids Valuable Life Lesson