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Yummy Yoga
Want to grab any kid's attention? Just say the word "snack" and BOOM. Use this to your advantage with a food theme in your next yoga class: Yummy Yoga: Kidding Around Yoga has written a wonderfully creative song called Yummy Yoga. In it, you fly around the world...
A Touch from the Heart
I recently learned that Thai Yoga Massage is considered a healing practice just through the form of being touched from someone’s heart. The practitioner’s touch is done through the act of unconditional loving-kindness known as Metta. By touching from the heart rather...
Visualize Your Business Blossoming
Meditation is a fantastic practice to lead a less stressful life. Meditation creates an alpha state so the mind is relaxed, present, and receptive. It creates a state of being still instead of busy. The senses become enhanced: sights, sounds, touching, feeling are...
Boost Your EQ Score
Which will make you happier and more successful: a high IQ score (Intelligence Quotient, a measure of intellect) or a high EQ score (Emotional Quotient, a measure of emotional intelligence)? Some psychologists believe that the ability to understand, express, and...
Yoga Makes Me Strong
Our blog author today is Kaden, an 11 year old Yogi. Whether physically or mentally, doing yoga can make you and your family members strong and healthy. When my mother first began yoga I was doing sports such as football and soccer. I gradually increased in these...
The Yoga Butterfly Within
“Caterpillar sheds his skin to find a butterfly within,caterpillar sheds his skin to find a butterfly within.” -Donovan, “There is a Mountain” Butterflies can infuse a kids yoga class with themes on spring, change and hidden beauty. Of course, like butterflies in a...
10 Reasons to NOT Practice Yoga:
After teaching Yoga to people from 2 to 92 for the last eight years, I have compiled a list of reasons to NOT practice yoga...and why those reasons are just excuses. 1. I can’t touch my toes! Guess what? Most people come to yoga stiff and tight, and many may never...
Essential Oils for the Family
I’ve recently gotten interested in the benefits of essential oils. It hasn’t happened overnight and I’ve only slowly started to use them. The problem is the wealth of information out there concerning these oils can be really overwhelming. I hope this blog helps to...
Zen Gardens
To a small-town Colorado girl, the Ryoanji Temple Zen rock garden in Kyoto, Japan, was one of the strangest sites I had come across as a high school exchange student – and that’s quite a feat, since my entire trip to Japan had been filled with sights and tastes I had...
March…In Like a Lion
Need a theme for your kids' Yoga class? How about using the month of March as your theme? "In like a lion, out like a lamb" is a familiar saying that invites our imaginations to pair the fierce weather of winter to be like a lion with the hope that a gentle lamb-like...
What Family Exercise Taught Me About Parenting
Winter is here in full force (finally). This past weekend we got hit with the largest snowfall our area has seen in almost 20 years, getting over 16 inches in a 24-hour period. Being snowed-in alone with two children under the age of 7 with the possibility of power...
Your Best Life
Your best life isn't as simple as it seems. Best life isn't necessarily your favorite life or the one you selfishly want. It's simply the life you're best at. I read that a year ago in a book called, The Bucolic Plague. It's a book about the Beekman brothers and their...
Build Your Child’s Kindness Muscles!
We all recognize the importance of kindness - it is a vital character trait we want to develop in ourselves and in our children. Here are some quick ways to build the kindness muscles in the your kids and students: Post It Notes - This is a fun activity to spread...
Being Present with Your Children
Be in Love with your children! Deepen your connection with them by spending quality time. There is such a misconception on what quality time truly signifies. I have learned that spending time with my child is much more than just being physically present. Quality time...
What OM Means to Me
(Before reading this blog, I would like to state that I believe in a Higher Power. For the ease of writing this, I have identified this Higher Power with the name that is God. If you have another name for the Higher Power, please know that I do not mean to offend by...
