Blog on yoga and mindfulness
Read about kids yoga and mindfulness, starting a family yoga practice, infusing mindfulness into your day and parenting, and my journey to empower my own yoga, breathwork, mindfulness practice.
I believe in sharing and empowering people, parent, kids with their own physical, emotional and mental health, for a better, more balanced and kinder future.
Stress Management: Balancing Home and Work
When moderate and controlled, stress can become a driver of performance, learning, and personal development. The real danger lies in chronic or intense stress that exhausts body and mind. The goal is to develop the skills to manage it effectively, especially during those crucial moments at work when a simple mindful break can make all the difference between burnout and breakthrough.
Meditation in motion
You don’t need to sit still to meditate. Mindfulness can be practiced while walking, moving, doing everyday tasks, or focusing on your senses. This guide shares simple techniques—like mindful walking, mindful movement, sensory grounding, and everyday mindfulness—plus tips for work breaks and activities with children. Small moments, big impact.
Why resting is important
The 3 main components of a healthy lifestyle are diet, exercise and SLEEP. Not having enough sleep and good quality sleep exposes us to lower immunity, brain fog, higher injury risks.Yet, sleep is not enough in our overstimulating high-speed worlds: other types of rest are dearly needed …
Why movement is important at all ages?
At all ages, incorporating regular movement is key for both your physical and mental health. It helps you today to release energy and feel-good hormones while building tomorrow’s mobility and creating new mind-body connections. It is important to know your abilities and not be afraid to mix it up at the same time.
How to boost creativity?
How to foster creativity in kids? How to promote creativity at work? How to become more creative? What are the key traits of creative people? How do I become better at creativity? Do I need to be original to be creative?
Starting mindfulness with kids, preteens and teens
How to explain mindfulness to kids, preteens and teens?
Having a mindfulness practice is about helping your brain see the moment more fully, not identifying yourself with your thoughts (hello little voice) and being able to act rather than react to life’s events. It will not transform you into a full smiling blissfully happy being, but it will allow you to be fully there, manage your emotional and mental states better, in particular your stress levels, to be more resilient and even, with regular, practice help you with focus and memory, which is very good for these pesky school tests! Activities examples …
Starting mindfulness for small kids (2 to 6)
Toddlers (2 - 3 years) are already quite mindful beings: curious about everything, exploring the world with their whole sensations and voicing loudly their emotions. Mindfulness for toddlers aim at helping them identify and name feelings and emotions, and engaging their 5 senses. Mindfulness activities usually last a few minutes, and it is fully okay (and already great) as they have a very short attention span.
How to teach breathing to kids
Taking 4 deep breaths can bring many benefits to kids and help them regulate better and decrease their stress level. Yet, at home or at school, we barely kids how to breathe. Saying "calm down and breathe" is not enough if kids are not taught how to do it. Breathing techniques should be adapted to kids age and capabilities.