The Yoga Of Parenting

Bring the wisdom of yoga into your parenting journey. Mom and yoga teacher Sarah Ezrin offers 34 practices to find more presence, patience, and acceptance—with your child and with yourself. “I can say without a doubt that the most advanced yoga I’ve ever done is raising a child,” writes Sarah Ezrin. While many people think of yoga as poses on a mat, The Yoga of Parenting supports people in bringing the spiritual principles of yoga into their lives—particularly their families. Ezrin, a longtime yoga teacher, supports readers and practitioners in slowing down, becoming present with our children and ourselves, and acting with more compassion. Each chapter highlights a yogic posture and theme and explores how it relates to parenting, including presence, boundaries, balance, and nonattachment. Chapters include prompts such as intention setting, breathwork, and journaling. Ezrin also features the stories and insights of a wide range of yoga practitioner parents whose experiences include single parenting, grandparenting, and passing on intergenerational yoga traditions. In addition to the opening posture, each chapter includes: “Breath Breaks” invitations to mindfully breathe. “On the Mat” practices to show us how we can apply the lessons on our yoga mat in a more general sense. “Parenting in Practice” offering and advice from parents in the US and abroad. “Off the Mat and Into the Family” fun exercises to help us bring the work off the mat and into our homes. Practicing yoga can help us become kinder to ourselves, more aware of our thoughts and actions, and more present in our lives. What more important sphere to want to become kinder, more aware, and more present than with our families?

2023 National Parenting Product Award Winner Bring the wisdom of yoga into your parenting journey. Mom and yoga teacher Sarah Ezrin offers 34 practices to find more presence, patience, and acceptance—with your child and with yourself. “I can say without a doubt that the most advanced yoga I’ve ever done is raising a child,” writes Sarah Ezrin. While many people think of yoga as poses on a mat, The Yoga of Parenting supports people in bringing the spiritual principles of yoga into their lives—particularly their families. Ezrin, a longtime yoga teacher, supports readers and practitioners in slowing down, becoming present with our children and ourselves, and acting with more compassion. Each chapter highlights a yogic posture and theme and explores how it relates to parenting, including presence, boundaries, balance, and nonattachment. Chapters include prompts such as intention setting, breathwork, and journaling. Ezrin also features the stories and insights of a wide range of yoga practitioner parents whose experiences include single parenting, grandparenting, and passing on intergenerational yoga traditions. In addition to the opening posture, each chapter includes: “Breath Breaks” invitations to mindfully breathe. “On the Mat” practices to show us how we can apply the lessons on our yoga mat in a more general sense. “Parenting in Practice” offering and advice from parents in the US and abroad. “Off the Mat and Into the Family” fun exercises to help us bring the work off the mat and into our homes. Practicing yoga can help us become kinder to ourselves, more aware of our thoughts and actions, and more present in our lives. What more important sphere to want to become kinder, more aware, and more present than with our families?

Parents and children will be inspired to develop a true love for each other with the wisdom of yoga shared in this text. In Parents and Children: Relationships Born from Love, you'll learn meditation techniques to calm emotions, yoga postures that promote a healthier body, and ways people of all ages can use yoga to alleviate the harmful effects of a wide spectrum of physical and emotional conditions. "This is a clear, comprehensive, easy to understand and follow guidebook for creating happy, harmonious, loving family relationships. The book is written with such kindness and compassion, exactly the qualities the author hopes toawaken in her readers. This book could do immense good to help individuals and families find their way to the fulfillment of heart we all seek." - Nayaswami Asha, spiritual director of Ananda Palo Alto, CA; teacher; counselor; author. http: //www.nayaswamiasha.org

Parents who want to better understand the energies that inspire and motivate their children will find Jenny Bees A Yogi Mamas Guide to Yoga, Ayurveda & Your Child a creative and helpful tool along the way. Jenny takes you on an empathetic journey relatable to every parent. What makes my child tick? How can I help them fully become their happy healthy selves? Jenny, in her own journey with her children, has found good answers through Ayurveda and yoga, and even better, she shares those with you with humour and love in this very special book. As a lifelong yoga practitioner, parent and teacher of children, and follower of the Ayurvedic diet, I am confident that you will enjoy your relationship with children even more once you read this book and, to the best of your ability, follow the practices and tips given within its pages. Shakta Khalsa, founder and director of Radiant Child Yoga This is a unique book written for parents and children and is about kids, yoga and Ayurveda, and how we can all become better, more intentional parents with the help of the intuitive five-thousand-year-old sister science of Yoga. The heart of the book is three beautifully illustrated poems, each written to clearly explain one of Ayurvedas three doshas, which in combination make up a persons prakriti (their nature). The text is simple enough that children of all ages will have a sense of what this Ayurveda thing is. And it wont be lost on Mom or Dad either.

In this hilarious, heartfelt book, Brian Leaf tackles parenting with a unique blend of research and humor. Explored is Attachment Parenting, as well as Playful, Unconditional, Simplicity, and good old Dr. Spock parenting. He tries cloth diapers, no diapers, co-sleeping, and no sleeping. Join him on his rollicking journey in this one-of-a-kind parenting guide.

"Yoga for Parents: Mindfulness and Movement in Family Life" is not just another yoga manual - it's a captivating journey into a world where the tranquility of yoga and the dynamics of daily life meld seamlessly. In this Special Report, you will uncover a unique approach to infusing traditional yoga practices into the intricate tapestry of your everyday family life. Designed to cater to both parents and children, it showcases how the lessons learned on the yoga mat can be extended to every facet of your existence, turning ordinary moments into opportunities for growth and balance. Author Victoria Roberts, a seasoned yoga teacher and mother of two, embodies this philosophy, sharing her personal experiences, insights, and techniques throughout the report. Her distinct style combines elements of time-honored yoga practices with modern mindfulness techniques, tailored to the rhythms of contemporary family living. Understand yoga beyond the mat and the profound positive impacts it can have on your family life Discover mindful eating, learn how to navigate family disputes with grace, and induce better sleep with simple yoga techniques Foster a healthier and happier family life while creating your very own 'me-time' Highly visual, fun, practical and deeply inspiring, this wealth of expertise guarantees to give the readers the wisdom to put their family on the path of health, harmony, and happiness. Ready to begin this journey of calm and connection? Modify your life in ways you didn't realize were possible with this gem of a guidebook!

A gentle and novel guide to new motherhood—one that encourages women to take time to breathe, embrace their experiences, and be "good enough"—one yoga minute at a time Yoga instructor Alison Rogers and coauthor Erin O. White forge a new path through contemporary motherhood with their collection of gentle suggestions for beginning and deepening a home yoga practice for new mothers. From the warm-up of first days with a newborn to the wobbly-but-standing postures of confident new motherhood, Breathing Space for New Mothers encourages women to notice and nurture their feelings and foster self-compassion to approach motherhood with curiosity instead of fear, improvisation instead of rigidity, and humor instead of worry. The authors offer mothers a singular message: your well-being matters as much as your baby’s. Each chapter ends with a one-minute mindful yoga practice, which can be done in a sequence to create a relaxing and balancing support for the incredibly demanding first nine months with a baby.

Within the covers of the remarkable book you hold in your hands, you will find simple, practical and effective ways to understand and to rise up to the many mind-boggling challenges that the parent- child relationship brings into your life. Most of us look for better ways to handle our children when the first crisis involving our child stares us in the face. This book written by two leading psychologists with over a decade of experience of working with both children and parents presents explanations of complex concepts without the complex jargon, tips to help you as a parent use a more rational and scientific approach while dealing with your child and most importantly deals with issues that plague today’s families including the toxic effects of the media, social skills, quality time, the integration of the mind, body and spirit with a conscious awareness and emphasis on parenting styles and understanding and management of misbehaviour in children. Helping children move from a state of Innocence where external influences guide action and shape personality to a state when InnerSense takes over as an internal compass through effective parenting is what this book has been engineered to achieve.