Rainbow Yoga

HE SAID / SHE SAID 🌈

“I wasn’t listening because I was being a butterfly.” 🦋😂

Fair enough.

It’s hard to listen when you’re busy fluttering through a magical garden, visiting flowers, and saving the world from a caterpillar emergency.

One of the wonderful things about children’s yoga is that imagination isn’t a distraction.

It’s often the doorway.

The doorway to movement.

The doorway to mindfulness.

The doorway to confidence, creativity, and joy.

Adults sometimes think children need to stop daydreaming to learn.

But often children learn because they’re imagining.

Because for a few precious moments, they aren’t just pretending to be a butterfly.

They are a butterfly.

Free.

Curious.

Present.

And completely absorbed in the moment.

Although, to be fair, it does explain why they missed the next instruction. 😆

💬 What’s the funniest excuse a child has given for not listening in yoga?

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HE SAID / SHE SAID 🌈

“Mum says she’s flexible, but she made a very crunchy sound.” 😂🥨

Kids notice everything.

Everything.

Not just the poses.

Not just the breathing.

Everything.

And when parents join yoga, children get a rare opportunity to discover a fascinating truth:

Adults are still learning too.

They wobble.

They fall over.

They get confused.

They make mysterious crunchy noises.

And sometimes they can’t touch their toes either.

That’s one of the beautiful things about Family Yoga.

For a little while, nobody has to be the expert.

Nobody has to be perfect.

Everyone gets to laugh, play, stretch, learn, and grow together.

Even if some of us sound like a bowl of breakfast cereal when we move. 😆

💬 What’s the funniest thing a child has said about a parent during yoga?

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HE SAID / SHE SAID 🌈

“Teacher… when you said ‘empty your mind,’ where does it all go?”

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A fair question, really.

If thoughts leave…
Where do they go?

Children have a wonderful way of asking the questions adults stopped asking years ago.

Maybe the goal isn’t to empty our minds at all.

Maybe it’s just to stop chasing every thought that runs past us.

To notice it.
Smile at it.
And let it keep walking.

A bit like watching clouds drift across the sky.

Sometimes the deepest yoga wisdom arrives disguised as a funny question from a child.

💬 What’s the funniest or most thought-provoking thing a child has said in your yoga class?

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AI can now write essays, answer questions, create images, explain maths, translate languages, and probably help your child finish homework faster than you can find their missing shoe.

But can it teach kindness?

Can it help a child feel safe in their body?

Can it show them how to repair after hurting someone’s feelings?

Can it replace eye contact, teamwork, safe touch, belly laughs, courage, empathy, friendship, or the magic of a real human saying, “I’m here with you”?

Not quite.

In the age of AI, children don’t need to become more robotic.

They need to become more beautifully human.

Our newest article explores why the future needs children with emotional regulation, creativity, empathy, resilience, critical thinking, body awareness, values, purpose, and real connection.

And how yoga, mindfulness, play, and togetherness can help grow exactly those skills.

Read the full article here:
https://www.rainbowyogatraining.com/blogs/articles/in-the-age-of-ai-children-need-human-skills-more-than-ever

Because the future doesn’t need better little robots.

It needs kind, calm, brave, creative, connected humans.

HE SAID / SHE SAID 🌈

“Can we stay animals forever and never go back to humans?” 🦁🐸🐧🐍

To be fair…

The animals were having a much better day.

The lions got to roar.
The frogs got to jump.
The penguins got to wobble.
And nobody had to do homework.

One of the beautiful things about kids yoga is that children don’t just do poses.

They become them.

For a few magical moments, they aren’t pretending.

They are the brave lion.
The peaceful turtle.
The soaring eagle.
The curious monkey.

And through play, they discover confidence, calm, courage, and joy without even realising they’re learning.

💬 What’s the funniest thing a child has said during a yoga class?

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HE SAID / SHE SAID 🌈

“Why does deep breathing make me want to hug everyone?”

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If only world leaders asked more questions like this.

Maybe there’s something magical about slowing down for a moment.

When we stop rushing…
When we stop reacting…
When we take a few conscious breaths…

…we often remember something important:

We’re all in this together.

Children don’t always have the scientific words for what they’re experiencing.

They just notice that after breathing deeply, they feel calmer, kinder, softer, and somehow more connected.

And honestly, that’s a pretty beautiful thing to notice.

💬 What’s the sweetest, funniest, or wisest thing you’ve heard a child say in yoga?

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Parenting is basically advanced yoga.

Not the calm, candlelit kind.

The kind where you practise deep breathing while someone yells, “I don’t want the banana cut THAT WAY!”
The kind where your patience, flexibility, nervous system and sense of humour all get tested before breakfast.

Our new article is here: How Yoga Can Help You Parent Better.

It’s for every parent, carer, teacher and beautifully tired human who wants more calm, more connection, more play, more emotional regulation, and fewer kitchen-floor negotiations with tiny barefoot lawyers.

Yoga won’t make us perfect parents.
But it can help us pause before reacting, connect before correcting, listen more deeply, repair after hard moments, and bring more joy into family life.

Read the article here:
https://www.rainbowyogatraining.com/blogs/articles/how-yoga-can-help-you-parent-better

Because the world doesn’t need perfect parents.
It needs present, playful, loving ones.

HE SAID / SHE SAID 🌈

“My dad farted during meditation.” 💨😂

There was silence.

Peace.

Stillness.

A room full of children resting quietly.

Then…

PFFFFFFFFT.

One eye opened.

Then another.

Then another.

The meditation was over.

The giggles had begun.

Children are wonderful because they remind us of something many adults forget:

Perfection is not required.

Not in yoga.
Not in meditation.
Not in life.

Sometimes mindfulness looks like sitting perfectly still.

And sometimes it looks like trying not to laugh while your dad accidentally becomes a wind instrument.

Either way, you are still present.

You are still together.

And years later, nobody remembers the perfect meditation.

They remember the one that made everyone laugh until their bellies hurt.

💬 What’s the funniest thing a child has said in your yoga class?

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