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Family Yoga in San Antonio

4/8/2012

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Parents can find it very challenging to get into a yoga class.  Often a babysitter is needed, only one parent is able to attend or you have to take precious time away from your family.  Wouldn't it be wonderful to get to spend some time in a yoga class with your child?  To be able to do your practice and also watch them get all of the same benefits that you do?

The Parent Child Class at San Antonio Yoga is a chance to connect with your child in a way that is unlike any other time you will ever spend together.  You will move, breath and connect together, creating sacred memories.  Through your example, children will learn why yoga is essential in our lives and they will start to feel the amazing effects of it as well.  Their confidence will soar, their stress will lessen and they will be better able to face the challenges in their lives with faith and understanding.  Children will be given the space to comfortably explore their bodies with movement and without any judgement, while parents will be able to be an observer to their transformation, without the need to correct or parent.   This one hour class will be a chance for both parents and children to just enjoy each other and be present in the moment.

To learn more about all of the benefits of yoga for children, please see our Children's Yoga Page.

Lisa has advanced training in the use of yoga as therapy for children with ADHD, ADD, Autism, Anxiety, Sensory Processing Disorder, Visual Impairment, Dyslexia and other challenges that many children face.  If your child has any such challenges, please let Lisa know.  She will be able to use therapy in the Parent & Child Yoga Class, or in a private yoga class, to help address these challenges.
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Happiness is a Choice

4/7/2012

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Yes, you read that right.  Happiness is a choice!  It is a choice that you face each moment of every day. Ultimately you get to choose whether you want to face whatever is going on in the moment with happiness and patience or anger and victimization.

We are faced with many challenges on a daily basis.  Our kids fight, our boss is over demanding, we get cut off while driving in our car, the line at the grocery store is too long, the doctor is running an hour behind schedule... All of these are the typical things we face on a day-to-day basis.  But each time we face one, we have the choice on how we want to react.  

Let me give you an example.  You are cut off by someone while driving.  Maybe your normal knee-jerk reaction is to get angry, say a few not-so-nice things and then grumble about how inconsiderate and rude that driver was for the rest of the way to your destination.  Maybe instead we should consider what might be going on in the life of the other driver.  Did they have a family member just call them from the Emergency Room?  Or a sick child at home?  Or a sick pet they are rushing to the vet?  Also, it would be worth considering how their action is really a gift to you.  Maybe by cutting you off, they slowed you down or brought you more present to your driving.  Maybe this prevented you from getting a ticket or, worse, into an accident.  Next time this happens, it would be the perfect opportunity to send them a blessing hoping that all is well for them and then thank them for making your travels more safe.

Each challenge we face in our lives is an opportunity to grow and learn.  We can choose to see the world as half empty or we can choose to see the things in our lives as lessons that are taking us exactly where we need to go.  The people who get through a "crisis" the best are those that are able to step back and see that it is a gift that leads them to an even better place on the other side of it.   Life is similar to one large staircase.  For each step up that we take, there needs to be something that we have learned that has helped change us and move us there.  Be thankful for each challenge that got you up to the next level of understanding.

So, if each moment you have the ability and the right to choose happiness or sadness.... which will you choose?  This isn't a matter of deciding you will never be sad again, this is a matter of watching moment to moment how you choose to step on to the path you are taking.

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