As I listen to the words of “Dear Jessie” by Madonna (one of my all time favourite songs as a child) it reminds me of the adventure I held inside my heart of a magical place where there’s a golden gate, where the fairies all wait and dancing moons. Where the mermaids sing as they comb their hair, like a fountain of gold you can never grow old where dreams are made”. I asked the question, "Why did I love this song so much?" and "Why now when I listen to it does it sparks the inner child within me?" Simple! Listen to the words, it symbolises all that we believe when we are a child, that life is sweet, that their are magical places and fairies do indeed exist. I remember spending much of my early childhood seeing and feeling magical things, I would play for hours in this magical place. I still see this in the children today when they are out amongst nature or at a playground. Full of happiness, joy, laughter and excitement. Living in the moment. So I asked my self the hard question a few months ago, "Why are you teaching children yoga? What is your intention? Why teach children yoga?" As the saying goes never work with children or animals and I can say there has been days I have walked away from a class nearly crumbling at my knees with fear and disappointment that I didn’t do enough in the class, it wasn’t fun etc etc. Other days I've walked away, with a smile ear to ear having a sense that I created a class that was fun, educational and team building. But their is no “I” in kids yoga, no room for ego as your ego will bring you crushing down. My friend and theta healer Liz would also say in times I doubted myself “ you got this, Kids yoga is your path” and sometimes I think her vision and words is what kept me going. It was not about me but about the kids. In this day and age children need yoga and the life skills they learn from it more than ever as we are faced with higher incidences of depression, anxiety and social isolation in children. Plus I wanted my children to grow up with yoga being a way of life, the norm. I thought in that moment, I can’t sit back and just hope that someone else teaches my children these life skills, it’s my role to teach them. Were all instilled with the virtues of compassion, love, generosity, kindness,
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