Yoga is Bliss

"The inner light in me shines to the inner light in you."

Yoga!

This past Tuesday was bring your camera to yoga day.  I was so thrilled to capture the wonderfulness of the girls yoga class.  Alexandra, the girls yoga instructor, is an incredible teacher and just the perfect person to be teaching Itsy Bitsy Yoga.  We have so enjoyed being a part of her class! My only regret is that we have not been going to yoga since the girls were newborns!  

Yoga in dresses is very cute yet a little challenging.

Bow Pose

Tree pose is even more fun when Beanie Babies are involved!

Grace attempting tree pose. 

Emma and Alexandra in whale pose.  

Picking up cotton balls with their monkey toes. 

 

Using the wall for dancers pose. 

The children love to ring the bells at the end of yoga. 

Part of the ceiling in the yoga studio.  

The waiting area at Absolute Yoga. 

And it seems only fitting to end this blog post the way we do ever yoga class:  Namaste.  

*We have been experiencing technical difficulties with my laptop.  I suppose it would help if I did not have over 2,000 pictures in iPhoto!  My computer keeps freezing and will not allow me to delete pictures to make more room on the start up disk.  Hence my lack of blogging this week.  Thanks to my dear, best friend, Mary for allowing me to put pictures on her computer so I can update the blog until we are able to free up some space on my computer! *

OM.

Today Emma and I attended our first Itsy Bitsy Yoga class.  Yoga is something I had always wanted to do with the girls from the time they were both infants, but for various reasons it never worked out.  Until today that is!  While Grace was at preschool (only 8 more days, but who's counting?!) Emma and I headed to Absolute Yoga and had the most fantastic time.  It made me wish even more that the girls and I had been doing this right from the get go (and that I had maintained my yoga practice all these years too).

This evening at dinner we told David and Grace all about our adventure.  And since Em does not have enough words yet to share her thoughts on the day she climbed out of her chair and demonstrated all that she had learned.  What a treat!  Right away Grace says: "Mama, I want to go to yoga too!"

After Emma had demonstrated every pose she learned, 

Grace tried them out too. 

Both girls in bow pose. 

This is Em's favorite.

It was lovely to get to spend some one on one time with Em and to have this new experience be just the two of us. I did wish that Grace could have been there, but I think that for us to be really successful it was best to start with just Emma.  Once preschool is done, Grace will join us for the rest of this session and for all the sessions there after.  It's not often you find a Mommy and Me class that allows more than one me.  So fabulous!

So tonight, in honor of our time at yoga, I leave you with this:

Namaste.