Being a Kids’ Yoga teacher is much more than having fun and teaching kids some poses. When I am teaching a class, I feel I am in a privileged position to bond with the kids and help them deal with many aspects of their lives. I like to teach my kids the importance of...
Even after years of practicing yoga, mindfulness, meditation, and studying The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (along with other texts), I would by no means say I have mastered ANY of it. Is this discouraging? Not in the least. There are moments of mastery that are worth all...
As we all know, we live in a hustle-bustle world. Often, we hear adults saying things like, “I’ll be at peace when __________ (I get a better job, get a bigger house, my house is organized, my marriage is happier, my kids behave, I lose weight, etc. etc.).” That list...
When I took my Kids’ Yoga training, they told us about Really Stinky Feet Spray. It has a soothing aroma of lavender, and I was told to use it in case my students came to class with some old school smelly feet. At the moment, I wasn’t so sure about it but during my...
Being fairly new to the Kidding Around Yoga craze (I completed my awesome certification almost 7 months ago), most of the yogis coming to my classes have been little girls between the ages of 3 and 10. That is until recently, and I couldn’t be happier about it. Boys...
Today I went to teach my evening kids' class, but unfortunately, I only had one little yogi in attendance. Luckily, any Kidding Around Yoga class, no matter how big or how small, can produce magic, which is exactly what happened tonight! Maya is the beautiful...
Since I took my first Kidding Around Yoga Teacher Training in January of 2012, I have pretty much lived and breathed Kidding Around Yoga much of the time. As you may have read in others’ testimonies as well as my own, this training pretty much changed my life. Not...
One of the things that drew me most to the Kidding Around Yoga training (besides all of the awesome music) was that they offer a complete yoga practice in each and every class. So many studios and classes that offer “Yoga” focus only on the physical aspect of the...
I woke up shaking. My hands, my chest, my heart… this wasn’t the first time. This was every day for me. Something terrible had happened to me. Anxiety. Have you ever been so stressed out that you could feel it in your body? I let it go too far. I was so stressed out,...
As a lifelong worrier, I have definitely NOT connected to my inner warrior until the last couple of years. What? A yoga blog about being a warrior? Aren’t yogis supposed to be peaceful and practice ahimsa (non-violence)? We are, and yes, we do practice non-violence on...
When I entered the small room at the community center for day one of my Kids' Yoga training, I had no idea the number and variety of valuable tools I’d be leaving with. We all go to training classes with certain expectations about what we’d like to learn or...
That is the motto at Yogaville, where I received most of my training. I’m not sure I totally understood this when I first heard the expression but as I go through life, I realize that it means exactly what it says. There is nothing in your life that isn’t improved...
What’s going on at Kidding Around Yoga that’s keeping us all on our yogi toes? EVERYTHING! Sure, the Kids’ Yoga market all over the place is booming, but things at Kidding Around Yoga (KAY) seem to be on fire. Why are we different? Why are there new Kidding Around...
Kids' Yoga is full of fun and entertaining activities and great tools that provide stress management for kids. Yoga games, poses, and meditation are always part of a Kids' Yoga class; these activities have many benefits and are helpful to children, but there is...
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