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Family Yoga Classes Bend, Breathe & Bond with your little Yogi! LOCATION: KSY EAST - BLUE SPRINGS (map) Thursdays / June 5, 12, 19, 26 & July 3 / 11:00 - 11:45am $50 for one parent and one child $25 for each additional parent and/or child Children between ages 4-7 are welcome with at least one parent Register An Additional Child Or Parent: Children are natural yogis and this fun practice for you to do together will encourage a strong sense of self within them as well as deepen the bond between you. Learning valuable stress management skills and encouraging health and balance in the body from an early age creates good habits for children to carry into their teen years and beyond. Today’s lifestyle encourages us all to be continually plugged in to something — computers, video games, television, iPods, cell phones...Yoga encourages us to make a more direct connection to each other and with the meaning and purpose of our lives. Practicing yoga with your children nurtures the family bond and teaches them to connect with their inner wisdom. It also exposes them to a practice they can embrace for life and call on in times of struggle. Come and enjoy 45 minutes of yoga designed to encourage fun, a focused mind, a healthy body and improved coordination. Family Yoga is a specialty class designed for children between the ages 4-7 with at least one parent. Families with multiple children in the age range are welcome as long as at least one parent is participating. "Children are big souls in little bodies." ~ Shakta Kaur Khalsa

Anita began teaching children yoga in 2005 at the Evelyn Bliss Children's Center in Lee's Summit, MO. She joyfully discovered that preschooler's are surprisingly receptive to learning about yoga and seemed to crave yoga's moments of stillness to balance their energetic and busy little minds. With an arising passion to learn more, Anita completed the Radiant Child™ Yoga Teacher Training, levels I & II in 2006.

A mother of four children and grandmother of two, Anita is excited to combine her personal experience and love for the free-spirit in young children with her knowledge of yoga in a Family Yoga class at Kansas Siddhi Yoga. "A playful approach to yoga is essential at a young age and will introduce parent and child to a mind, body, spirit practice in which to cultivate a unique bond -- one of pure joy and inner peace."