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Tips For Prioritizing Mental Health
What are your priorities? Asking yourself this question and thinking about what is important to you each and every day can help you and your family live happier lives. Answering this question may make you think of a lot of things, but is mental health one of them?...
Starting a Business While Welcoming a Newborn: Tips to Get Started
Image from Unsplash Caring for a newborn may seem daunting enough, but adding a new business can take things up a notch. The good news is that with sufficient planning and organization, you can achieve all your parenting and entrepreneurship goals in one go. Balancing...
Raising Kids To Make Healthy Choices
Image via Pexels Parenting styles and approaches widely vary, but parents share a common goal of raising happy, healthy, and fully functioning humans. Here are helpful strategies to help your child make good decisions. Model Healthy Behaviors Your child’s listening...
How to Flip a Breech Baby
On occasion, our pregnant clients go in for their 36-week check-up and are surprised to learn that their baby is breech. "Breech" is when a baby is in a bottom-down position close to the estimated due date. If a baby is not head down by 39 weeks, this typically...
4 Tips To Get Your Kids Started With Yoga
Credit - Pexels While we tend to think of it exclusively as an adult activity, yoga for kids is exploding in popularity. In fact, according to a recent article from Harvard Health, up to 3% of all school-age children in the United States now practice yoga. This rise...
Why the Conversation Around Mental Health Is Important for Working Parents
Most parents want their kids to confide in them when it comes to mental health. However, the irony is that some parents struggle to open up to their kids about their own mental illnesses. This can be detrimental for a fifth of U.S. teens who have parents with mental...
ChildLight: Who We Are
Did you know that ChildLight has been around for almost two decades?! Our foundational Yoga & Mindfulness for Children Teacher Training was THE original children’s yoga training developed in 2006. Since then, we’ve created 13 different yoga & mindfulness...
Maternal Mental Health 101: 4 Ways Parents Can Recharge
May is Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month. Parenthood is filled with ups and downs, which means prioritizing self-care is a must. Recharging will allow parents to put their best foot forward every day for their family, friends, and themselves. We've outlined four...
How Can I Be of Service?
“Seva,” means “Service” in Sanskrit. Seva is an integral part of the practice of yoga. It’s one of the gems that gives our practice purpose and meaning beyond the physical. Asana (the practice of yoga postures) is a great place to start on the path of yoga— it helps...
Stop Doing These 15 Things If You Want a Happier, More Fulfilling Life
The days are long but the years are short. That’s why so many people struggle to implement healthy habits in their everyday lives and come to regret it later on. But did you know that you don’t have to settle for a mediocre, unfulfilling life? By adopting healthy...
Benefits Of Yoga For Kids
Despite what many believe, yoga is not just for adults! Childlight promotes yoga for kids. Yoga can instill important life skills in young children, which can put them on the path for success in the real world. In fairness to kids, we understand that they are...
6 Life Lessons Yoga Teaches Kids
When we think of introducing kids to yoga, we normally consider the most obvious physical health benefits of the exercise regimen, like increased flexibility, balance, improved connection between mind and body, and the sheer fun of folding into different poses. All of...
4 Ways to Achieve Mental Wellness
Mental health conditions are becoming more prevalent in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 4.7 percent of adults reported feelings of depression and 11.2 percent reported feelings of anxiety, nervousness, and...
How Yoga Helps Your Romantic Relationships
Many people would agree that relationship difficulties can be one of the most arduous elements of our lives. When your romantic relationships are good, it’s a great feeling, but when it isn’t, all can seem lost at times. The greatest area of transformation and...
Five Ways Moms Can Get Ready to Reenter the World
It's common knowledge that being a mom can be one of the greatest joys in life. You may have chosen to take time off to fully devote yourself to mothering, but now you might be wondering how to rebuild your confidence and focus on your other goals. Thankfully, you can...
Four Ways To Find Mindfulness In Yoga
Yoga, for novice or seasoned practitioners, is a great catharsis for alleviating stress and enhancing your physical well-being. The benefits of yoga speak for themselves, but what happens when you combine mindfulness and yoga? Mindfulness is paying attention to what...
How A Yoga Practice Can Help With Anxiety
Triggers for anxiety have always been relatively ambiguous, but there are several factors that can lead to it. Some of the common factors include stress, fear, self-esteem issues, environmental problems, and chemical imbalances in the brain. Symptoms of anxiety vary...
Guided Visualization: Favorite Place
I like to read this guided visualization to my students just before Savasana to help them rest a little easier. If you decide to share this with others, take your time with the words. Let each sentence really settle in. You can practice along to the recording here....
Grief: Feeling, Dealing + Healing (Part 2)
Part 2 of 3: Discerning Awareness When I was a kid, we did this thing called the Nestea Plunge. Standing on the top rung of the pool ladder (or on the pavement at the deep end if you were super brave) with feet separated and arms out in a “T” like five-pointed...
Using Mindful Awareness to Cultivate and Sustain Health, Happiness, and Well-Being
Mindful Awareness is the resource I have used for the last couple of decades to cultivate the skills necessary to surf when the water is calm, choppy, and turbulent. I have practiced mindfulness and yoga for 31 years. I first learned about Mindful Awareness when I...