Pictured above is the Nico Skirt, on sale for $38-58.  This skirt goes great over your workout pants and is designed to take you from the workout to “playout” in style! The Nico Skirt it could easily function as a cover-up at the beach as well! All the meSheeky skirts utilize a combination of bamboo, cotton and spandex that make for a really soft skirt that fits well.

I originally reviewed the Kiki Skirt in 2009 and have enjoyed wearing it both over my capri pants as well as alone as a skirt.  I also particularly love the Odette Skirt and the Trixie Tank!

meSheeky can be purchased online here or possibly in your local yoga studio.

FTC-A big thank you to meSheeky for designing such stylish yoga apparel and sending me out in style! {The skirt was free and these opinions are my own.}

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Love Be Present. Perfect clothes for daily yoga, pe, and mom wear out.

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Very helpful flash card style yoga cards that can be used in several different ways!


My students love these stories read aloud- then they love them more when they get to act them out with yoga postures!



The Yoga Kids has been an excellent resource for me as it comes complete with sequences, stories to read and music to listen to! I seriously carry these three books/cards around all the time when I am teaching yoga- I can always find something new in them!

Do your kids do yoga? What do they like best about it?

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Some of my best days of teaching, has involved nothing but yoga.  And, sometimes yoga with both the parent and the child has been even more rewarding for me…

You can read more on Well, Then…

Things I’ve learned Teaching Yoga to Kids!

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I am a yoga teacher.  Daily, I teach an average of 3 hours of yoga to children under the age of 12.  Every child at my school gets yoga.  I am lucky and I believe the children are lucky, too.  This is not the norm in California, nor is it the norm for schools in general.  On average, in our town, children get physical education in the public schools, once per week and it is NOT yoga!  And, this might change again as well! Budget cuts, etc..You’ve heard the news, you know.

I believe children should have many many opportunities to experience both yoga and outside play!  There is much to be learned about themselves and others through body knowledge!



Knowing both sides of the coin in this situation {as an ex-public school teacher}, it is going to take a MOUNTAIN of effort to even get yoga in schools. Test scores versus yoga?! Test scores will win, however, if the pressure for more physical education came from parents, teachers, administration and the community, together we might MOVE that mountain!


If you are passionate about yoga or even keeping kids active in school, please visit this website and check it out.

YOGA-RECESS in Schools

Fighting Obesity and Chronic Illness

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And, enter yourself to win free yoga for a year!

Click here to read about all the amazing things Manduka is doing for yoga and the community.

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Today, in the middle of a yoga class of 15 primary children, I was reminded of something incredibly simple and vital to my mental sanity. One breathe. Doesn’t matter what pose, if I only focus on the inhale 1, 2, 3 and the exhale 1, 2, 3, I can feel peace or calmness. Awareness of the class, the mat, and the children, but, still completely calm- one moment at a time.

Admittadly, I am not yet a meditator of any sort- even though I am thoroughly educated on the benefits…but, just the power of stopping and taking a breathe can be so soothing.  Yoga is about breathe and as a teacher, I have tended to focus on the sequence but, today, maybe I can offer that bit of calmness to a student?

Try it. I will be.

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Teaching Yoga to Kids!

Here is the link.

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How many of you are tired of hearing about how you can lose 2 dress sizes in 2 weeks? Believe the crap about eating cereal twice a day will help you lose weight? Eating this or that will bring the changes you want to see in your body? Or how about lifting weights? Interval work, blah blah blah…You’ve heard it all before and so have I. I’ve also tried many of the current fitness rages and blogged about them here. I’m here to tell you that I’ve thrown all those damn rules out the door!

Kettlebell swing, kettlebell squats, one arm leg lunges, abdominal work with a kettlebell; all been done here.

Marathoning. Check.

Bike Racing. Check.

Basic Weight Training on the Shawn Phillips philosophy. Check.

David Kirsh’s methods of training via his book (2 weeks to Ultimate Body). Ok, book read, exercises tried, but did not follow plan.

Interval work on bike or feet. Check.

People, I could send you links to evidence to all of the above posts. In the last two years, I’ve tried MANY MANY methods in which to stay fit and healthy and lose body fat. At this point, finally, my youngest is 3 and 1/2 and my weight is lighter than I’ve ever been in my life. My food is fairly intuitive in that I eat a green smoothie, a salad, mostly fish diet, that includes dark chocolate, lots of NUMI tea, occasional beers and sometimes, crap. But, for the most part, I am leaner and lighter than I’ve ever been in my life.

Guess what?!

I AM NOT LIFTING WEIGHTS. AT ALL. That 35 pound kettlebell is sitting in my garage collecting dust. My stability ball is my desk chair. The elastic bands are used as jump ropes for my kids. The weight bench is used for all kinds of imaginary adventures for the boys but I’ve not lifted, pulled or flexed on that thing in almost a year.

Honestly, I still do something physical daily. But, the fact of the matter is that I am not specifically training with any particular plan. I simply run or do yoga. Once a week, I will do Graeme’s CORE AB-Blaster DVD that takes 14 minutes. That sounds simple enough right? The thing with the yoga is that it has made me stronger and leaner than I ever got lifting weights. When I was lifting weights 3 times a week, I was QUADZILLA!! Biggest legs of a girl you’ve ever seen, really. Take one yoga pose like Warrior 2. Hold it for 30 seconds to 1 minute. Feel the burn. Where do you feel it first? If it’s done correctly, you will feel it everywhere!! Take any yoga pose and hold it for even 5 breathes and you get tired. Because it is working your entire body at once!

Learning yoga has been the best gift I ever could have gotten for my body, for my mental health and for my sports. When people ask me about their various running related injuries, I send them to yoga.

It can only benefit you.

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