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.
The Gentle Art of Joy
Joy isn’t always loud — sometimes it’s a quiet glow, found in moments of presence, gratitude, or laughter. This article explores how joy nourishes our emotional balance, helping us manage and regulate emotions with greater gentleness and awareness.
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.
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 …
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.
Bedtime yoga routine
Almost everyone gets now that it is very important to warm up the body before doing any sport; a bedtime routine can be seen as very similar: the necessary calming down of body and mind before sleep, to get them ready and have a better sleep quality.