This weekend we started our new season of family yoga workshops at All Saints Church Hall, Fulham. They will happen on the first Sunday of every month at 2pm for the younger children and 3.15pm for families with older ones.
This weekend was the first time we had used All Saints Hall and it was perfect. There was plenty of space to spread out and have some fun. The first session was all about a trip to the forest - lots of fun animal poses and partner poses like climbing up onto the parents' knees to reach up to pick imaginary fruit, and lying like lizards on rocks in the sun. We stretched, and hopped and jumped, turned upside down and laughed a lot.
Yoga is such a fun way to connect with your children - they adore the positive attention. My son loves to be the demonstrator - it gives him confidence to share his skills, just as it gives confidence to all the children to show their parents how amazing they can be. Many of the adults hadn't done any yoga before (particularly the dads) but it didn't matter - yoga is for everyone.
We ended the session with the kids snuggled up with their parents with an eye pillow each and some relaxing music - what a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
The second session for older children was a little different - we concentrated much more on partner poses and acro yoga - who doesn't like to fly like a superhero? There were double dogs and handstand practice and we took turns choosing poses for our human mandala, (if only we could have had some aerial photos of the shapes we made). There was plenty of time for a guided meditation at the end -most of the parents could have fallen asleep if it weren't for the giggling from some of the children.
Please do come along next time - Sunday 6th November at 2pm.