Archive for September 23rd, 2009
Children's Yoga a new journey
September 23rd, 2009 | Author: Shannon
This week I will start a new chapter in my life: a children’s yoga training. I am so excited. Fact is, this is one of the first children’s yoga 200 hour trainings in the country and I am ecstatic to be at the forefront of something to do with yoga.
Yoga means union of the body, mind and spirit. Part of me feels that yoga is unneccessary for kids but right now our society is so busy, fast, over-booked, and plugged in, that even babies, playing with electronic noise makers, can probably use a little “down time”
Why’d we do this to ourselves? How’d we get so disconnected as a society that our children need to learn how to breath deeply and relax? These rhetorical questions can be totally ignored by my lurking readers, but reality has hit me hard as I raise a little child: we all need time to bring union to our body, mind, and spirit. I am glad I will spend at least some of my time doing that with children- because they are so close to that perfect source they do it quickly!
Children’s yoga has become a “thing” now too. Just another way to make a buck or maybe a way to save the world? People have been doing yoga for thousands of years as a private personal spiritual (but NOT religious) practice (side note: I love that we “practice” yoga- it means we always have the space to grow more magnificent!) it’s great that it has leaked into some of our schools, community centers, libraries, kitchens, backyards, barnyards and now it’s leaking into my heart and mind.
I am excited and rearing to go- off to Boston this weekend to look deep into myself.
What new journeys are you, my lurking, non-commenting readers, doing in your lives to dig deeper into the dream you had for yourself before you were born?
