Guest Author - Jen Blackert

Are you a Yoga Mama?

Do you ever people watch? Do you ever wander what others are thinking about? And some times you look around and want to shake one of them and yell, WAKE UP THIS IS YOUR LIFE! What are you doing sleep walking through your day? Or you see someone in the grocery store buying loads of junk food and you want to say, “Hey, you are killing yourself eating that garbage, or you also working at that dead end job? Are you trying to shorten your life?”

WAKE UP THIS IS YOUR LIFE!

Lately, I have been living yoga. By that I mean I do my best to make the best choices and live consciously. I am a yoga mama! I do my best to awaken and bring awareness to my family and others.

Do you live yoga? Do you teach your family the basics of a yoga lifestyle? What you are not sure what a yogic lifestyle is? Well, listen up!

So what does it mean to be a yoga mama or dadda, anyway?

If you want to call yourself a yoga mama or daddy, you should live yoga! Be yoga! Here’s some 5 tips that are principles to living yoga.

1. Be Present. You are present in the now time. Meaning you act consciously. You communicate and relate to others consciously (this includes your children).

2. Going Green: You are a green person. You recycle and do what you can do for the environment.

3. Live Yamas and the other eight limbs of yoga. You teach your kids non-violence, truthfulness and everything in moderation. (learn more about the 8 limbs here)

4. Listen. Shhh... What do you hear? What do you hear others telling you? What are you telling yourself? What is the inner most voice whispering? What are your family and friends asking for? Are you listening?

5. Smile. That’s right. Choose to feel good. Choose to be a peace and in the flow. Allow yourself reasons to feel good.

So what do you think? Are you living yoga? Are you a yoga mamma or dadda? I have recently read a great book on living yoga by Christy Turlington. You might want to check it out. The link is below.

Yes?

Great.

Start telling yourself you are a yogi of life. You live yoga. What more could you want?