Blissful Kids Holistic Living – Our Story
Our story began in 2016 over a cup of coffee with a few ideas floating around. Being in the Children’s Yoga world, it doesn’t take long to meet people with the same inspirations and ideals. It was during one of those coffee dates that we...
Therapeutic Benefits of Kids Yoga
Yoga is pretty popular these days, and for good reason. Anyone who’s tried it for a while will attest to the many benefits of living the yogi lifestyle. Traditionally however this activity was the domain of (mainly female) adults. Well not so anymore. In recent...
Benefits of Yoga in Schools for Kids
Yoga is great for the mind and body. Anyone who has tried a class will know it instantly calms you down and makes you feel more centered. Well, who needs calming down more than excitable little ones? We often think of yoga as an adult-only...
Anna and her Rainbow-colored Yoga Mats – book review- Blissful Kids Creative Yoga Cape Town
The book begins with Anna, she is starting out at a new school and she moves through her first few days exploring her Yoga practice on different coloured yoga mats. At first she has a few funny looks and the children whisper about her, but...
Be the change you wish to see :)
Taking timeout for yourself is always a good thing, I was watching an Urban Yoga YouTube clip on Russell Simmons approach to bringing Yoga into his business and he said something that struck a cord (and I have mentioned in a previous blog) He said...
Teaching Children To Use Yoga to Self Regulate
One of the many benefits Yoga has is giving children tools to self regulate, in other words, how to calm your-self down. Children are encouraged to use breathing techniques and postures to move from an energetic state to a relaxed state within Yoga classes....
Spring Time! An inspiring time for Creative Yoga classes for Children.
The smell of Jasmine as you walk through the garden, the warmth of the Sun when you go outside, the lightness in the hearts of the children when they play outside. Spring has sprung! Yay!...
Using Creative Yoga to cope with stress – for Children and Adults
There’s no denying we live in a hurry up, rushed, be here, go there, quick paced society. It is so easy to get caught up in it. Those moments when you stop and breathe, and have a quick realization at how you were running around...
Creative Yoga – The Concept
We are all creators, sound weird? If we look at creativity in the sense of how it is explained in the Oxford dictionary 'the use of imagination or original ideas to create something; inventiveness' you can see that being creative doesn’t only mean creating a...
Yoga for kids in Cape Town
I have been teaching children Yoga for the past 5yrs, I remember starting up and feeling quite lonely! At the time, I only knew of another 3 people teaching Yoga to children in Cape Town and 2 of them I only knew via the grape...