Her music has been described as joyful, upbeat and eminently danceable and she has won awards for best album and best song, and was used as the background for advertisements. Her cousin produced the album and played drums, her brother sang bass, and her daughter and friends sang along in a few tracks. Her students enjoyed the songs she wrote which led her to write more songs with the intention of pleasing children and eventually to recording her first album. Upon gaining a certification to teach Yoga, she started bringing her guitar to classes to play for the children.

The songs initially were written for her daughter, the first of her three children in an effort to sing her to sleep. Willey spent the late 1990s in New York City performing in nightclubs before working on material that would later be used for her debut album, Dance for the Sun. PBS TV affiliates nationwide air Breathe With ME and Fireflies Yoga, two yoga-for-children programs Willey created and hosts and her Music You Can Move To series with Laurie Berkner can be heard daily on Sirius XM Radio. In 2006, she opened a Yoga Studio, Fireflies Yoga in Pennsylvania. She grew up in Connecticut and Massachusetts. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Kira Willey is an American children's music artist, author, children's yoga and mindfulness expert, speaker, and creator of Rockin’ Yoga school programs.Īt the age of five, Willey started playing the violin and continued performing through high school and taught herself how to play guitar and mandolin as a teenager. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements.

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Breathe Like a Bear by Kira Willey