Kids Yoga with Yana

Feeling deeply grateful for my beautiful yoga teacher Jaina 🙏✨

For over 10 years, she has been a guiding light on my yoga journey — gently supporting me not only in my practice, but in coming home to myself. 🧘‍♀️🌿

Yoga has taught me that the journey is never just about the body. It is about finding stillness within, trusting the process, and creating balance between body, mind and soul.

Today’s beautiful flow left me feeling grounded, centred and connected ✨

So grateful for this journey, for the wisdom shared, and for the beautiful souls who cross our path and help us grow 🙏💚

Jaina offers beautiful 1:1 yoga sessions as well as Yoga for Mums classes, if you’re looking to deepen your practice or simply create some space for yourself 🌸🧘‍♀️

Jaina - Yoga Embodiment | Soul Growth

✨ Another trip around the sun. ✨

Today reminded me that the greatest gifts aren't things, but moments.

Walking in nature, laughing together, sharing a film, enjoying dinner... simply being present with my son. 🌿

In a world that moves so fast, quality time is one of the purest expressions of love ❤️

Grateful for this beautiful day, for these precious memories, and for another year of growth, gratitude, and connection 🙏

❤️ I Am Love

This beautiful book of Compassion by Susan Verde, will be our guide this week in Kids Yoga 💚

"I put my hands on my heart and listen. And that is where I find the answer: I have compassion. I act with tenderness. I am love."

Together, we'll explore what it truly means to be love—not only by showing kindness and compassion to others, but also by offering that same kindness to ourselves.

We'll talk about self-love and self-respect, learning that we are all worthy of love exactly as we are. We'll discover that having compassion also means listening to our own hearts, honouring our feelings, and knowing it's okay to say no when something doesn't feel right. Healthy boundaries are a way of caring for ourselves and others with kindness and respect.

Love means showing kindness, living with gratitude, taking care of our minds and bodies, and treating ourselves with the same gentleness we offer a good friend.

When we let our hearts lead the way, we help create a kinder, more peaceful world—one small act of love at a time. 🌿❤️🌿

💚 Yoga Jenga this week in our Kids Yoga classes! 💚

This week we'll be having fun with our Yoga Jenga game, encouraging children to build kindness, confidence, appreciation, and self-love—one block at a time! Through movement, positive affirmations, and mindful discussion, we'll explore how our words and actions can help us and others feel happy, strong, and valued.

We'll begin the class by practising Sun Salutations to gently warm up our bodies, wake up our muscles, and energise our minds.

We'll also practise Sitali (Cooling) Breath, a calming breathing technique that helps children cool down, relax, and regulate their emotions.

To finish, we'll enjoy a lovely long guided relaxation, giving everyone time to rest, recharge, and leave the class feeling peaceful and refreshed. 🌞🧘‍♀️💚

💪 Conquering Fears, Anxiety & Worry

This week in our Kids Yoga classes, we'll explore fears, worries, and anxiety in a fun, supportive way.

We'll talk about how everyone feels afraid sometimes—even grown-ups! Being brave doesn't mean never feeling scared. It means taking a deep breath, believing in yourself, and trying anyway.

A book that has always inspired me is Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers. One of its biggest lessons is that we don't have to wait for fear to disappear before we do something new. We can feel the fear, breathe through it, and do it anyway.

We'll build our inner strength with powerful Warrior poses, repeat positive affirmations like: 💪 "I am brave!" 💪 "I am courageous!" 💪 "I can do it!"

And we'll finish with an exciting Space Yoga adventure 🚀✨, travelling through the galaxy and discovering that the greatest strength is already inside us.

Every little step of courage helps us grow. 💙🌍

🌿 This week's Kids Yoga theme: Learning to Let Go

We'll explore what it means to let go.
For children, letting go doesn't mean forgetting someone or pretending feelings don't exist. It means learning that it's okay to let go of worries, sad feelings, disappointments, or things we can't change, so our hearts have space for happiness, kindness and new adventures.

Together we will:

🧘 Practise calming yoga poses
🌬️ Use our breath to release big feelings
💭 Talk about emotions in a safe and gentle way
💜 Learn that all feelings are welcome, but they don't have to stay forever

Our special reminder is: "Breathe in calm... breathe out and let go."

I try to empower every child to feel stronger, more brave and always enough 🌈✨

Kids Yoga Spinner Game Fun this week! 🧘‍♂️

Spin, pick a yoga card, and try a new pose! This playful game helps children build strength, balance, focus, and confidence while having lots of fun.

Learning through movement is the best adventure.

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🌈 My Rainbow of Energy book by Kristy Snyman is guiding us this week on the yoga classes

The story follows Hugo, whose act of kindness leads him on a magical adventure of self-discovery. Guided by Pushpa, he learns about the energy centres within us and explores simple yoga poses, breathing techniques and positive affirmations that help restore balance, confidence and inner calm.

This week's featured pose is Dragonfly Pose 🪷

Dragonfly Pose helps to:

✨ Stretch the thighs and hips
✨ Strengthen the back muscles
✨ Encourage relaxation and body awareness
✨ Support digestion and may help ease tummy discomfort

Through movement, mindfulness and storytelling, we’ll be exploring how our bodies hold energy and how yoga can help us feel calm, connected and strong.

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