Glow Little Lotus Yoga

Mindfully settle in the coming season of Thanks in this three-week series for Tweens!

🔆Yoga poses that promote calmness and contentment
🔆Breathing exercises to effect thankfulness and thoughtfulness
🔆Mindfulness activities that reinforce joy

Yoga and mindfulness are beneficial for tweens, offering improvements to their physical health and emotional well-being, focus and self confidence. These practices enhance stress regulation and provide tools for healthy emotional expression, helping navigate pressures of school and social life in this tricky stage of development. The gratitude series is designed to be both fun and meaningful where students can move, breathe, express themselves and interact in an energetic, non-competitive and supportive atmosphere.

Sign up and secure a slot for the three weeks or drop in any of the Fridays, November 7, 14 & 21 at 4.45pm-6.15pm. For ages 9-12 years old. Slots are limited. See you at the !

Day 3 of our Tween yoga and mindfulness camp on Niyama lessons!
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Today is learning about Svadhyaya or self-study and being curious!
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We broke down poses to understand where we need to be strong-or soft in our body to stabilize or open up to a shape; We tried to eat mindfully, step by step using all senses; Asked curious questions about curious objects.
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Heart and belly breath to connect with deep breathing in contrast to an energizing breath.
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Yoga teaches 5 NIYAMA lessons which are about personal observances : saucha (cleanliness), santosha (contentment), tapas (perseverance), svadhyaya (self-study) and ishvara pranidhana (trust). I adapted the lessons to help tweens navigate this tricky stage of development, making them relevant and useful in their own experiences. It’s my hope they use it as a guide in becoming the best version of themselves 💞✨
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Join us for 2 more days at the Yoga Shala of San Antonio 🫶🏼

Happening next week!

A Niyamas-inspired yoga camp for tweens—
• Mindful and fun activities that cultivate a positive internal environment
• Insights on how to be the best version of themselves

Register and see you at the Yoga Shala of San Antonio!

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It’s time for yoga adventures!

Move with me and breathe with me! Imagination and creativity and so much fun! 🦁🏝️🦋🚀🏕️😎
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One last ‘adventure’ that’s perfect to transition back to school!
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Movements that cultivate not just strength and flexibility but activities that activate focus and calmness 🤓🌬️✨
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Sign up thru the Yoga Shala San Antonio (YSSA) app or website. Let’s go! 😊

We’re back!

Following our successful Yamas summer camp last year, we are excited to do a niyamas-inspired yoga and mindfulness camp in July!

Tweens will learn how to cultivate a positive internal environment, rooting into their inner strengths and abilities. Age appropriate activities including yoga asanas and breathing exercises.

Sign up thru the Yoga Shala of San Antonio app or website and see you there!

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Whether we take little steps or big strides, may 2025 bring us closer to wellness, wholeness and dreams coming true! ♥️
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My New Year’s Eve birthday photo taken by my daughter from the charming little town of Wimberley, TX
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2024 was dotted by wondrous tween and children yoga camps, ashtanga intensives with teaching adults at the YSSA
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I am feeling a pivot in working with children, but sharing yoga and its benefits to the young and old remains my home base, along with my yoga practice
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Wishes of good health, love and laughter to everyone 💛💗💚 May this year be our best one yet!!!

How do you say goodbye to your yoga teacher whom you never met yet?

Just as I am settling in into the greater ashtanga community and was getting more excited for his visit that our shala was hosting this weekend.…suddenly and sadly now, he had passed. And I cannot explain how affected I was, sobbing uncontrollably when I was given the news that he is gone. Sadness, longing for my (future) yoga teacher “that got away”…?

His joy was in sharing all that he learned about yoga and its health benefits to as many people. “It is not just the postures and how to bend bodies but also to care for others.. (paraphrase )” - Sharath Jois

Each time I step into my mat to practice, my body moves mindfully through every inhale and exhale. It tunes me inward to a keen awareness of the physical sensations that surface and the abilities I did not know I had, to move from the challenge of one pose to another. My yoga teacher, , in this tradition of mysore-style ashtanga practice, sees me and guides me forward; she teaches me the things she learned directly from him, her own guru, Sharathji.

The tapas of practice bear fruits from steady and earnest effort, with sweat, tears, and yes, even pain at times. You come away with a deeper understanding of yourself and a sense of clarity from the process. Transformation is happening from the inside out as you realize you are transcending the mat practice. And you are not in a space of ego but of humble perseverance and grace. Somehow, you want to feel rightly connected not just with your own body, mind and Spirit, but with others as well.

Even if I will never get to meet Sharath in person, I feel rootedness in his legacy. No goodbye. The light from this parampara burns bright in this community - on and off every yoga mat, from mine to another.

Thank you for your teachings and the beautiful and strong community you built all around the world. You were so respected and loved and I feel blessed to be part of it.

Thank you

Squeezy mysore practice on spooky day! Now I can enjoy the sweets 🍭🍫🍬🙃

HAPPY HALLOWEEN y'all!!!
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Do you take time to affirm yourself and remember you are unique? creative? capable? Or to say to yourself “I got this!” Or “I can learn from this?”

The glass is half full! Seize the moment with sure feet, a smile and a brave heart 💗
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Yoga cultivates thinking the opposite when negative thoughts abound and hold us down.
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Empathy for hostility. Courage for fear. Action for inaction. What else do we struggle with?
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It’s all but an idea until we try and put it into practice.
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