Itsy Bitsy Yoga
Yoga is a big business in United States, but it’s hard to get adults to stretch and put themselves in odd and unnatural positions. So that’s why Helen Garabedian’s idea is so brilliant: 1) young children are an untapped market for yoga, and 2) they do all those yoga poses all the time anyhow!
"Let’s start with a little centering," Blythe Berube Rowan says, and even those with a less-than-Seinfeldian sense of irony can find humor in this, as we are surrounded by manic munchkins speeding around the dance studio floor.
"Breathe in," Berube instructs as my 3-year-old daughter catapults onto my back. "Breathe out." (Indeed.)
Other children, wondering why all these grown women are on the floor, arrive in time to witness lion pose – mamas sticking their tongues out, widening their eyes and, basically, roaring. A few roar along. There is laughter.
Yoga or not, seems like the little squirts are having fun! Link (photo: Steve Zylius, The Orange County Register) – Thanks Julie Anne I!














