I have been practicing yoga for almost 20 years now. I started when I moved to Boston from Miami (where I went to college) and was trying desperately as a 20-something to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. I was waiting tables and teaching in a preschool and was a little bit lost. One of the moms of my students was a yoga teacher and told me I should come take a class with her. My life was changed! I did Rodney Yee videos, took classes when I could and started to transform my life as I knew it. Yoga got me through graduate school and when I became a first grade teacher in Coney Island in Brooklyn, it was then I realized how much kids just connected with yoga. I’m sure I had hopes and dreams of my future children practicing yoga with me. Fast forward to… Read More »
Sharing the LOVE – Through Peace, Joy & Kid’s Yoga Teacher Trainings~
Back in 2006 while I was still living in San Francisco, I had many people ask me if I could train them to teach yoga to kids. Surprisingly, there was not too many of us doing this work yet. So my friend Rosey and I decided to create our own 8 hour Kids Yoga Teacher Training. Fast forward to 2015, my Full of Joy Yoga Kids Yoga teacher training is now 20 hours with the hopes to increase it to 25 hours in the near future. It has been one of the biggest joys of my biz. I have trained hundreds of people from CA to CT – think of all the kiddos who get to benefit from all of these kids yoga teachers? It’s mind boggling actually. I really do this work because I have high hopes for the future generation. If all of us can incorporate just a little… Read More »
I am Patient…I am Kind
These are 2 of my new affirmation/mantras I’ve been using while on my 40 day meditation challenge. My friend Giselle of Kids Yoga Stories shared her own 40 day meditation challenge last year and I decided to start my own. I’m on day 25 which I almost can’t believe because of how many times in my life I’ve tried to incorporate meditation into my daily life. It’s never stuck and I hadn’t found something that works with me until now. I’ve dabbled, but never have done 25 days straight! I’ve read that it takes 40 days of doing something to form a habit and I’m a believer! After 25 days of this, I can’t imagine my morning without it. I read 2 really great articles about meditating with a mala and you can find them here and here. I had a beautiful mala I bought years ago and decided to start using it to… Read More »
