![]() Simultaneously, yoga poses join us with our external landscapes, with the natural world and with one another. With tools to listen and deepen our intuition, the practice of yoga connects us with our internal landscapes: breath, sensation, body awareness, and mental & physical balance. Nor is it ideal to combine yoga and eating.” But my second thought, “Of course she’d come into Happy Baby pose, as she’s happiest when she’s eating dinosaur nuggets, the kind from the green package,” reminded me of the power of connection through yoga. My first thought was, “oh no! You shouldn’t compress the abdomen like in Happy Baby pose, mid-meal. Kids naturally create many these types of shapes with their bodies, in playful and expressive ways. Yoga postures, referred to as asana in Sanskrit, the language of Yoga, emulate animal shapes, elements in nature, and aspects of our surrounding world. ![]() And yet, at four years old, she knew exactly how to move her body into many of the traditional poses. In fact, when I asked her, Robin said Gigi had not been exposed to yoga. And although the practice of yoga is very much a part of my life, her mom, my sister Robin, doesn’t practice yoga at all. I marveled at my niece’s intuition and ability to move into yoga poses. Gigi kept right on talking, sticking her head between her feet to look up at me with big brown in her smiling face. In the midst of discussing her chicken nuggets (she eats only the dinosaur shaped ones in the green box), she rolled back onto the padded window seat, bent her four-year-old knees into her little armpits and grabbed her feet.
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