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How Living Your Yoga Can Mean Taking Parenting Lessons From The Rock (Dwayne Johnson)

January 16, 2014 by Kara-Leah Grant Leave a Comment

by Kara-Leah Grant First night in Napier, staying at my Uncle's house. The TV's on. I haven't lived with a TV for three years. It's novel. I sit to eat my dinner and catch the beginning of a movie. By the time I've finished my dinner, I've grasped the plot and I'm chuckling at the weirdness of the Universe. The movie is about a high-achieving, selfish, self-centered football player who discovers - when she shows up on his doorstep - that he has an eight year old daughter. The plot revolves … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat, Yoga & Parenting Tagged With: awareness, children, ego, motherhood, parenting, story

On letting life flow unimpeded through you – no drama, no angst, just… life

May 13, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant 11 Comments

By Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat Oh I'm giddy with delight right now. I was up at 6:15am, over an hour ago, and my child has yet to surface. I've written my morning pages. I've written an email to the 489 lovely subscribers on my book list. I've downloaded the software to review the Kindle and ePub versions of Forty Days of Yoga, which have just been completed. And now I get to write! Yes, write! I love writing. Love it, love it, love it, love it. Hence the website and the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: belief, children, faith, mothering, time, writing

Take everything as it comes, discomfort and comfort alike

October 9, 2012 by Kara-Leah Grant 4 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat The day we arrived at Anahata Yoga Retreat, nature and God were both sodden, and the retreat was wrapped in the clouds. I hadn’t thought to check the driving conditions before arriving at Anahata, and Samuel and I were traveling in my long, low, loaded-up station wagon. I made it round the first muddy gravel corner and thought. “Nope, there’s no way I’m going up there.” There was a sense of defeat in letting the road stop me now, after I’d got … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: Acceptance, anahata retreat, anahata yoga retreat, child, children, respect, retreat

How to help kids stay longer in yoga poses

August 14, 2012 by Guest Author 1 Comment

There's lots of ways to help kids stay in yoga poses longer

by guest author Gopala Amir Yaffe, Rainbow Kids Yoga The benefits of the Yoga Poses increase as you stay longer in them.  But staying for a long time in the poses is not easy for kids simply because, for them, it is totally boring… unless you do some of the following: Counting You can count to 10 when you bake a Yoga Pizza (Seated Forward Bend with legs apart), when you go under a yoga tunnel with your imaginary car while in the Yoga Bridge Pose, count down to launching a Yoga Spaceship … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching Insights Tagged With: children, families, fun, games, Gopala Amir Yaffe, kids, longer, poses, rainbow kids yoga, teaching, techniques, tips, yoga

How to help kids do yoga better

July 27, 2012 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

by guest author Gopala Amir Yaffe, Rainbow Kids Yoga When you teach yoga to anybody, remember this: Open your eyes, your ears, your mind and your heart, and really look. Look at who is standing in front of you and start from where they are. If you start from where they are, there are no limits to what you can achieve together. If you start from where you expected and planned for them to be, or from where someone told you they are, or from where the book says…man, you’re in trouble! … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Teaching Insights Tagged With: children, families, fun, games, Gopala Amir Yaffe, kids, rainbow kids yoga, teaching, techniques, tips, yoga

I Didn’t Want This Life: Why am I Having So Much Fun?

June 25, 2011 by Kara-Leah Grant 7 Comments

There's always an opportunity on the horizon

by Kara-Leah Grant Life has been rich with opportunities to practice deep acceptance lately. Samuel is now 17 months old, generally awake from 7am to 7pm, and active, even measured by toddler standards. It's impossible to work around him anymore, or write morning pages, or meditate, or practice asana. These things were the mainstay of my waking hours - if I wasn't on the computer, I was doing some form of yoga or writing. In the last month, I've had to accept that this is just not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: Acceptance, children, parenting

How to create a spiritual home with a child-friendly meditation circle

March 30, 2011 by Guest Author 14 Comments

Jenifer Parker with her partner Ryan and their son Hawke

by guest author Jenifer Parker, owner of Healium Yoga Studio in Wellington They say that it takes a village to raise a child, but it can be a struggle to find the right village! We are blessed that there are many secular villages in which we can participate, like our play groups and parent meetings with thosewho practice attachment parenting techniques, but we have really struggled to find the right spiritual home for our family. Both my husband and I were raised in religious … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Events Archive, Meditation Practices, Practices Tagged With: children, family, Meditation for kids

How to meditate with a baby or toddler

January 31, 2011 by Kara-Leah Grant 11 Comments

by Kara-Leah Grant, My daily, morning half-hour meditation is a must-do. It's the first priority as soon as I wake up, and whenever possible, I'll get up and do it before my toddler is out of bed. There are times though when he's awake before me, and that means I meditate with him. I've done this ever since he was a tiny baby - tiny enough to lie nestled on my lap, sleeping, while I meditated. He out-grew that at about four months, and now he's quite happy to play around me while I do my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meditation Practices, Musings from the Mat Tagged With: baby, children, video

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