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What Does Yoga have to do With Parenting?
with Peg Oliveira and Shaun English
What Does Yoga Have to do With Parenting?
A Yoga Practice for Centering the Mindful Parent
A workshop for parents with children of all ages, as well as parents to be.
Sunday March 25th
2:00 - 4:00 PM
$30
Erector Square Location
What Does Yoga have to do With Parenting?
A Yoga Practice for Centering the Mindful Parent
Parenting brings up raw emotions for everybody. The bright side is there are opportunities for connection and restoration in the messy spots of family life.
The hard part is staying awake to these opportunities, rather than sleepwalking (literally, for many new parents!) through our parenting role. Yoga is not a fix
it or how to, but rather yoga reminds us to be with our families just as they are and from that centered place live fully.
How can mindfulness practices help us to move from reaction to action; from feeling like a casualty of family chaos to feeling like a conscious regulator of our family's nervous system? Can yoga move parents from the quest for perfection to the gifts of connection? Can yoga and mindfulness practices help to heal patterns that keep parents stuck and generate ways to stay connected and stay curious in relationships? What do breathing and stretching have to do with the pitfalls of getting a child dressed and out the door in the morning?
We believe time spent centering yourself will help you hear and see and support your child growing up in their own unique way making parenting a little less depleting and a little more regenerating. It's so easy for parents to get caught up in right and best; to feel pressure to be and do everything for fear of hurting or limiting their child. In response, we may either feel like we have to "take charge" and "control" our child's life, or we may become push-overs to our child's every need and want. Or we may swing erratically between the two, creating a chaotic and exhausting family environment. This workshop is not about retreat from life, but about yoga practice in everyday life where awareness meets the flying cereal bowl.
Join this experiential workshop for parents who wish to explore their potential to be fully present co-creators of their children’s experience of life;
and maybe laugh a little at the crazy-making quest for perfection. This session will include:
• Yoga, Meditation and Discussion to replenish parents
• Ideas for how to share your practice with your children
• A Family Systems perspective that may generate compassion as well as offer a way to understand "stuck places"
This workshops is appropriate for parents with children of all ages, as well as parents to be.
No prior yoga experience needed.
About the Instructors
Peg Oliveira has a PhD in Developmental Psychology and teaches yoga. Her own yoga teacher is her three year old daughter. Peg’s essay “Mind over Multitasking: What Would Buddha Do?” appeared in the book The Culture of Efficiency (2009).
Shaun English is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who teaches yoga to moms and infants, families, and adults. Shaun teaches Itsy Bitsy Yoga at Fresh Yoga.
Registration
Pre-registration required. There is a class size limit.
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