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Saturday, January 27, 2-4 pm

No matter what your child’s age or stage, parenting can be one of the most challenging, yet deeply rewarding experiences in our lifetime.  In this workshop you will discover how the teachings and practice of yoga can apply to your daily life as a parent. 

Join Amber and other parents to:

~ Discover how Patanjali ‘s Eight Limbs of Yoga can help you become a more peaceful parent

~ Learn pranayama breathing practices to increase your energy, access calm during stressful moments, and cultivate a sense of being grounded and balanced in your life with children

~ Develop specific mantras to help you face parenting challenges with confidence

~ Uncover ways to deepen your connection with your child and yourself

$28

Amber Sparks, RYT 200, RCYT

Amber believes yoga provides us with the method and tools to arrive in the present moment with grace, acceptance, and truth. She has been practicing yoga for over twenty years. Her classes nurture and invite students to come home into their bodies to cultivate radiant well being and listen to the wisdom within. Amber has been working with young children and families for the past 20 years in various settings; including preschools, Head Start programs, and mothering her own two children. She currently teaches yoga to parents, babies and toddlers and families.

Register Here.  Click on the Sign Up Button On January 27

Kindness is a practice. In yoga, Ahimsa or “Non-harming” is the foundation of practice.  As a yogi and yoga teacher, this is the building blocks of my life, my Yoga with a capital “Y”. Young children can astound us with spontaneous outbursts of kindness.  Yet in another moment we will observe the same child act out of frustration.  Taking the perspective of another is a developmental milestone for preschoolers. This perspective is necessary in tasks such as waiting, sharing and taking turns. As a result, young children are not always kind.  They are learners, growing in the practice of friendship. Children learn kindness through imitation, through experience and with practice.

 

In all children’s yoga classes my primary objective is to model kindness. In doing so, I am planting the seeds that will grow and bloom in the future.  As parents and teachers, our actions are vital, we are setting the example that children will follow. Treating children with kindness and respect is more than “the right thing to do”, it is a powerful tool, a gift.  Just as important, acknowledging simple acts of kindness reinforces that kind behavior is how we treat others.