A special welcome to everyone visiting from SITS where the Secret to Success is Support! Today I have the tremendous opportunity to be a “How To” Featured Blogger on SITS. What makes SITS great is that not only do we all agree to read each others blogs (one a day) but we ALSO agree to leave a comment.
Comments have been compared to many things in the blogosphere, so just to bring my yoga readers up to speed – in yoga terms – comments are like Shivasana (the relaxation pose) to a blogger. They feel so good after a lot of hard work!
My SITS Feature Post: How To Relax and Enjoy the Holidays is wrapped up below. For new SITS readers – you are personally invited to keep reading the other links on this page. Young Yoga Masters is all about Kids Yoga, about Training Teachers and about spreading tools to help kids be healthy and happy. I’m a niche blogger so I write almost exclusively about kids/health/yoga/and related topics. I post about once a week.
If you are a parent, a teacher, a yoga convert, or just yoga curious and want useful tools for the kids you love, add your name in the subscription box on the top right. Lets stay in touch. If you’re one of my regular readers, today is the day to try leaving some comment love. SITS girls know the secret to success is showing comment love support!
Now with the many holidays fast approaching here is the rest of the Feature Blog Post:
How To Relax and Enjoy the Holidays
A celebration is supposed to be a happy day, the kind that makes great memories. Everyone needs holidays to balance out the toil! But what about the obstacles that take a perfectly good holiday and make it feel like work? With a few simple yogi fixes, you can turn these modern problems around and ensure everyone has a fun time.
Do you make these holiday mistakes?
- Mistake: Carrying a Heavy Stress Load: staying up late, getting up early, texting, blogging, tweeting, e-mailing, then running around all day can wear a person down! A little stress can be motivating but too much stress is like too much salt– it ruins the meal.The Sun Salutation, a flowing yoga series, helps combat the bad effects of stress.Watch this video to see Yoga Man defeat The Stressor using yoga! Exercise is a proven antidote to the toll stress takes on your body. Even just ten minutes of Sun Salutations at night can help you wind down. When done in the morning the Sun Salutation can help you get moving. This is really helpful to reduce the health risks your body bears when it is in stress mode.
- Mistake: Reaching for the Junk Food: Eating in moderation just doesn’t go with certain holidays like Halloween where candies abound. Of course the best thing to do is to not eat junk. But if you end up reaching for the candies a little more than you ought, here’s something the yogis recommend: Rock Pose/Vajrasana. To sit in Rock pose, first kneel and then lower down so you are sitting on your heels. Do it watching TV or sorting Halloween candy, just do it as often as you can. It’s recommended by the yogis to aid in digestion and help with elimination.
These yoga fixes have been practiced for ages and can help you fix mistakes and make any holiday a little healthier and happier!
Thanks to everyone for visiting Young Yoga Masters today. And remember, whenever you see SITS – leave a comment!
Yours truly,
Aruna Kathy Humphrys
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Great SITS post! I especially loved the yoga for boys as I have three of them! I hope you enjoyed your special day!
Excited to find you! Congrats on your SITs day.
You have some really neat perspectives and great ideas! Congrats on your SITS day!
Happy SITS! Glad I found you I LOVE Yoga! It has been my saving grace the last few months!
Congrats – well deserved indeed! I totally needed this right now too after some very long travel days and some not so good food. You’ve inspired me to do some yoga tomorrow morning in my hotel! Looking forward to checking out your new release! All the vestry best to you, Charlene
These tips are great! Something that everyone can use.
I enjoy yoga and look forward to getting back into a routine. I’d love to incorporate yoga into my kids’ day. II’m going to check out your resources,
Great advice! I will definitely be back to read more of your advice!! Thanks! Happy SITS day!
HI!!!
I absolutely enjoyed your blog…I so miss doing yoga…and I need it! As much stress I’ve been going through the past few months it’s amazing I haven’t totally cracked up!
Congrats on being featured!
Happy SITS..
Congrats on being featured at SITS today!!! I LOVE yoga. I haven’t been doing as much as I would like to. I try to change up my workouts but really need to get back into some yoga. You have inspired me!
Too much stress is like too much salt! That’s a great way to put it!!!!
-CK
Visiting from SITS…I definately need to employ some of your relaxation tips for the holidays. Thanks for posting them.
WaHooo! I LOVE Yoga Man! I just ordered it for my son (and the rest of us); can’t wait!
Congrats on your SITS day too! You have a beautiful, well organized site. I LOVE what you have to offer. You are now bookmarked, email feeded, and followed. Oh wait, I clicked to follow, but 2x it said the link was broken, FYI. I’ll try again later!
Happy SITS Day! These tips are two things that I often forget when the holidays come. I take on too many responsibilities and too much food.
Happy SITS day and thanks for the wonderful thing you do for our kids!
Yay! I am so glad to find your blog again (it has been a while!) … and another yoga loving SITS-TAH!!
I just started teaching yoga to children and I am loving it. Congrats on your day. I am off to do some reading now. 🙂
I had no idea that yoga poses could help with elimination. I’m not being sarcastic, either (I know it’s sometimes hard to tell via typed comments) but you have intrigued me. Thanks!
Congrats on your SITS day!
What a great blog! It motivates me even more to get out there and start teaching yoga to kids. I love the yoga man video!
I feel like you were personally talkign to me with Mistake number 2. Guilty woman over here indulging in junk foods 5 minutes ago. and its only 7am~
on the lighter side……. HAPPPPPPPY SITS DAY!!!
How wonderful that you are the featured blogger today. Ever since I have moved and started a new job, my yoga practice has suffered a bit. A lot actually. This is just what I need to get back into the swing of things.
I hope your SITS Day was a wonderful one.
Hanneke
Happy SITS Day and thanks for sharing some much needed reminders as “the season” approaches!
Aruna, congratulations on your SITS day! What a wonderful, refreshing and timely change of pace! I’d definitely put myself in the ‘yoga curious” category and really need to get myself and my girls into some classes. It seems like we’re always so busy, no matter how much I trim from our schedules, and that the stress level is always very high. I need to get off this hamster wheel and am sure that yoga would be a healthy way deal with some of the issues we’re facing. I’m so glad to have found you through SITS!
Happy SITS Day! Excited to check out more of your site.
Congrats on your SITS day 🙂
I’ve been practicing yoga for about 5 years and can honestly say that it has been key in helping me reduce my stress levels and finding my center. For a person who literally made herself physically ill, it’s a huge accomplishment! I’m so glad to see that you are teaching yoga to kids – that’s fabulous!
Great advice!! I’m really going to focus on taking it easy and finding a way to release all of that tension this year.
Happy SITS Day! What a great blog you have here. I’m your newest follower. I’d love to learn how to stop myself from worrying and stressing out especially as I watch my 16 month old take a bite out of her apple, chew it up and spit it out.
Stopping by from SITS to look around. I love the idea of yoga for kids. It’s one of those things I’ve been meaning to try myself, but never gotten around to. Enjoy your SITS day.
Stopping on over from SITS. BIG yoga fan here. I’d love to get my almost 4 year old son involved in it and would love to know what age you think it appropriate to start them. I’ve showed him some poses but his energy level doesn’t quite seem “calm” enough for yoga 🙂
Congrats on your day!! So exciting and fun. I am really excited to find your site…looks like some cool stuff even us old fogies can use. I like the one for sorting candy (can’t remember what it’s called…ha!) so I’ll have to give that a try. Will explore some more.
Happy SITS day! I am definitely prone to stress and worrying. I am going to have to try some of the things I have read here. I was particularly impressed with the post about giving your child a compliment as you brush her hair. I love the idea of taking something that we do daily and making it into something positive that can be looked forward to. I think so much of life is missed or not enjoyed just by rushing and stressing.
Happy SITS day.
THis is a great blog. I love doing Yoga. I have started to teach my 5 year old. Believe it or not what made him want to learn was Kung Fu Panda. Hope you have a wonderful day…
Namaste
What a fantastic concept. I had no idea there was yoga for children but yes of course there should be! Look forward to reading more. Congrats on your SITS day.
This is fabulous. My 4 year old has Autism and I had heard yoga would be perfect for him. So I got a few DVD’s from the library and him and I have been doing it 3 times a week. We are learning together. He loves it and can’t wait to show everyone his poses. I catch him doing some poses and balancing from time to time. He remembers them long after we’ve done a workout.
I love the time him and I spend together doing yoga. He can relax, but still use energy. He finds his calm and doesn’t stim (do repetitive actions like flapping his arms).
Thank you for sharing this amazing gift with us! I can’t wait to read more and improve me and my son’s workouts!
I am 72 years old and have never done yoga…shame on me, hu?
Just over to wish you HAPPIEST SITS DAY..enjoy all the bloggy love and come by to see me soon.
xo bj
GOod for you!! Programs like this are so cool! My best friend is a ped. P.T. and she’s done some training in kiddie yoga! Even bought a mat and a series of Kid Yoga DVDs for my oldest!
Happy SITS Day! Thanks for all the great info. I hope that you enjoy the party today!
I love a great, informative post put in “bullet point” form. Such an easy and quick way to learn some great “stuff”. Thank you for sharing these tips and enjoy your special day!
I love, love, love your blog and am adding it to my reader. I’m off to read your post about Kids Yoga! (I’m starting a class next week that’s mommy and baby yoga!)
Happy SITS Day!
happy SITS day! I’m so glad I found you! My daughter (age 6) just finished up a 5 week session of kids yoga. She LOVED it and can’t wait for the next session to begin! I love that we are sharing yoga.
Thanks for the post. It is always a good reminder of the benefits of making an effort to include yoga in our daily lives!
p.s. What is SITS?
Happy SITS day!! I took Yoga as my college Phy/Health requirement and was surprised that I liked it. Keep up the good work.
well who knew that ‘worry’ came from the word ‘strangle’. That resonates so much in that I can feel strangled with my own worries from time to time. I know that when I do yoga (sporadically) I feel SO much better so am going to be looking for tips to get over the procrastination and just do it. Happy SITS day!
happy sitsday!
We used to do yoga with the kids at my daycare…they LOVED it!
Happy SITS day!
I love the idea of kids yoga! I have found many benefits and feel great when I practice yoga, but other than baby and me yoga I have not thought much about toddlers and older children practicing here. I think it’s a wonderful! Especially with all the stresses kids face today.
Happy SITS day!
Great post! I know sometimes I get too stressed to even really enjoy the time with my family. Thanks for sharing, and congrats on being featured blogger for the day!
Happy SITS Day! This is so cool that you do kids yoga! My mother took me to a kids yoga class when I was 6 or 7, at the local public library, and I loved it! I still have the book of yoga poses from my parents.
Great tips and advice! I am determined to get with the program in time for the holidays! Thanks for the help–
L.
Great post!! Happy SITS day. I hope you are enjoying your day
Grats on your SITS day 🙂 Love your bloggy.
What a wonderful blog! Congratulations on your SITS day.
Namaste.
Colleen
Congrats on you SITS day! Love the post from the 16-year-old on his experience – found out he’s not as flexible as a bunch of 40 year olds. Gotta love that revelation. It’s great that you are trying to spread the idea of relaxation – we could all use more of that!
I was thrilled to learn that my girls’ preschool is teaching them yoga. Just the basics but they already love it and I hope it serves as a first step towards regular exercise. I love that you are teaching yoga to youngsters.
Thanks for the reminders to slow down this holiday season! Congrats on your SITS Day!
Happy SITS day! I love the idea of teaching yoga to children, to have them grow up with this tool for managing the stress in their lives. What a terrific program you have.
Happy SITS Day!!!!!!
What a great idea for a blog. I loved the post about a Good Hair Day. A wonderful idea for reconnecting and bonding with your child. I’m going to try it with my 2 girls, neither of whom like having their hair brushed!
Congrats on your SITS Day!
Right on time – the perfect blog to prepare for the upcoming holidays! I can’t wait to dig in and read your other posts! Happy SITS day!
Sounds like you are so passionate and motivated. Good for you!! Happy SITS day!
Happy SITS day, SITStah!!! Wishing you the best in all of your endeavors.
Kindest regards,
Brook
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Congratulations on your SITS day! I have done Xtreme Yoga through the P90x program… can’t say I liked it though. I am just finishing up a round of Insanity and will be going back to the X in December but I am promising myself to give Yoga my solid effort. Anywho… nice blog and I am now a follower 😉
Make it a great day!
Happy SITSday! So glad SITS featured you today. I was needing more motivation heading into the holidays. My 3 little girls love getting out yoga mats and posing next to me. Now I’ll be able to learn to give them some actual direction.
I wondered if my kids should do some yoga. I think it would help with the stress they are feeling as they grow up and have change surrounding them.
Thanks.
Happy SITS day! I’m going to give the Rock Pose a shot! Thanks for the tips. 🙂
Great post! I love yoga and it can especially be helpful during the hustle and bustle of the holiday season. It gets so difficult to carve out time for ourselves during those few months but it is so important! Happy SITS day!
Your points are right on! In November, I usually cook up extra meals and freeze them so we don’t get caught in the junk food trap during the Christmas busy-ness when I don’t always have time to cook.
what a wonderful reminder that the holidays are NOT about generating as much stress as possible, and thanks for the simple solutions for releasing some of the stress that will inevitably happen. HAPPY SITS feature day to you!!!
Dropping by from SITS. Have a wonderful day!
Congrats on your SITS day! I hope it is amazing.
Well, I needed those reminders today. Thanks! Congrats on your SITS day!
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Happy SITS Day! This is great! Yoga is great! what a neat way to share that with kids and help them out too!
Happy SITS day! I have a question for you. I have taken yoga classes before, and enjoyed everything except the breathing. I regularly feel like I’m breathing through a coffee straw. I don’t have asthma, but I don’t breathe well. Do you know of any way to enjoy yoga without the deep breathing?
Congratulations on your SITS day! I hope it is filled with lots of lovely comments and many new friends.
I’m so happy to have discovered your blog. We all love yoga around my house – it has been a true healer for me, and my husband and kids love it too. How wonderful it is that you’re teaching children this beautiful, healthy practice. What a terrific start they will have in maintaining a healthy, peaceful, and balanced life!
Peace,
Michelle 😉
Happy SITS day! I’ve fallen out of the habit but I really should be at least starting the day with sun salutations! I’m sure my three year old would love that too and he loves to exercise.
I just started Yoga, and I love it! Happy SITS Day!
Happy SITS day. Great blog and I will be reading more – I have been interested in yoga for awhile and would like to learn more about it.
My son’s 3rd grade teacher would have them take a few minutes to do a couple poses during the day. He absolutely loved this teacher! Learning to destress is such a healthy thing!
Congrats on your SITS day!
Congrats on your special day! Yoga is so great – i have been out of practice for quite some time, but i definitely need to jump back in – it’s the perfect tool for stress management! Great blog!
Congratulations on your SiTs feature! I hope you enjoy your day in the sun:-)
congrats! Happy SITS day!
Happy SITS day! Congrats! I’m looking forward to looking through your website. I’m a preschool teacher and I just took a wonderful class about teaching yoga to kids. There are so many benefits!!
I love doing yoga as a way to relax and a form of fitness. I always feel so much more flexible, even after a single session. I’m a former massage therapist and always recommended yoga to my clients with arthritis as a way of strengthening the muscles that support the joints that give them issues.
Enjoy your SITS day!
Great blog! I returned to yoga myself this pat summer and have incorporated it into my teaching of dance. Congrats on your SITS day!
Happy SITS day! I love yoga and wish I had the money to go to an actual studio. I have two ADHD kiddos and yoga moves really help them.
Enjoy your special day!
As my yoga teacher says, “The energy in me honors the energy in you.” Great blog. My daughters all teach young kids and they all do yoga with them in class. I’ll definitely be sending them to your blog. Thanks.
It’s great to hear a reminder to relax. We all need this every day, not only on the holidays!
A little pose now and then sure does the trick, doesn’t it? Aaaahhh!!
Thanks so much for this
Really unique site – love it. And love your SITS post. I always get sick and stressed out over the holidays so I’m eager for any tips on how to relax this year. Thanks and congrats on your day!
Congratulations on SITS day! I try to make The Sun Salutation before i do my meditation every morning. This procedure loads me with energy for the whole day. Again happy SITS day!
This yoga is very interesting. I hope you have a wonderful SITS day!
Great post to remind us not to forget what things come down to. I could use a little more relax and unwind time in my day to day. Congrats on your SiTs day!
Great blog! I truly believe in the benefits of yoga. I can always tell a big difference when I don’t do it. It’s a great exercise for mind and body. I’ll be following and look forward to your tips.
Happy SITS day. Namaste:)
Congratulations on your SITS day!
I love yoga and wish I took the time to make it more apart of my day. After reading the benefits you discussed I realized it certainly worth making time for!
This is so awesome!! My boys would do this and probably love it!
Congrats on your day!! So happy that i found your yoga blog. I’ve been doing yoga for a few years and am always amazed at its fabulous effects. Thanks for holiday tips too. I’ve read em’ before but it is nice to be reminded occasionally.
My mom has been recommending yoga breathing techniques to for awhile since i’m kind of a high stress person. They really do work!
Congrats on your SITS day – enjoy your time in the spotlight!
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Happy SITS day!
I’m so happy to see a blog like this, great, well done!!!
Congratulations on your SITS Day! The holidays CAN be so stressful! Thank you for the tips!
My daughter has special needs and yoga has been a big help to her! Very cool site!
My boys enjoy doing Yoga at their school where the occupational therapist uses it to help the boys become more aware of their body and the way it moves.
Nothing on earth is cuter than watching them do downward facing dog while trying not to fall over.
The post turned out beautifully, Aruna. Thank you again!
Really glad we broke up the topics the way we did. The video you included was great!! Go yoga man. 🙂
Enjoy today.
-Francesca
Thanks so much for the opportunity Francesca. I’m really amazed at how meaningful all the comments are.
Congrats on your SITS day! We’ve been attempting to involve more relaxation activities & routines in our house but we can always use more 🙂
Thanks for the comment, these are great ideas for future blog posts for me!
Congrats on your SITS Day!!
Congrats on your SITS day!!! Great blog.
Yay for you on SITS Day! Great looking site… so professional! Keep up the good work and message.
Yay for you on SITS Day! What a great looking site… so professional! Keep up the good work and message.
Congrats on your SITS day! I have found yoga super relaxing and a great destresser. I bet your students love it too.
The kids love yoga – they were especially cute for the Halloween class yesterday at school. Although I noticed a huge difference in the classes before treats and the classes after treats!
Excellent advice! Happy SITS day!! 🙂
Happy SITS Day – the Yoga Man package looks fantastic – you guys did a phenomenal job on it!!!
Awesome advice. Happy SITS day!!
Great advice. I have tried yoga in the past and have recently found myself thinking I need to go there again. This confirms it. Thank you.
Happy SITS day! I’ll be back to look around. I think using many of your ideas will help our little orphan foster kids. I’ll probably have questions later.
feel free to send in any questions you have. Questions often give me ideas for future blog posts so I love to get them. Thanks for stopping by Young Yoga Masters.
Congratulations on your SITS Day featured post… You did a very good job of giving some wonderful how to tips for the Halloween weekend! I also got some insights on how to maneuver this assignment when my turn comes up in a few weeks. Wishing you continued blogging success!
Best,
Elizabeth
Happy SITS Day! What a great idea for a blog! Love it!
Have a wonderful SITS Day!!
As a foster parent and an aunt, I’m looking forward to reading about how yoga can help kids with their self esteem! Thanks! 😀
Happy SITS day Sitstah – I am off to look round your site and leanr more about yoga
Congrats on your SITS day! I really need to incorporate yoga into my life!
Congratulations on your SITS Day, I am looking forward to hopefully spending my Holiday’s at home (I’m in Iraq now). I know the “getting there” will be stressful and I plan to incorporate your relaxation tips. Thank you!