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on April 05, 2017

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Yog in Kinsale yoga classes Kinsale

Location: 68 Lower O'Connell St, Town-Plots, Kinsale, Co. Cork, P17 WR80, Ireland

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kids need yoga!

In our house you will hear (ad-nauseam) how much screen time have you had today ? It has not taken us all, including the children, long to discover that electronic devices are just another maladaptive behavior to distance ourselves from ourselves. My kids know that TV makes them irritable, and lackluster. They both know the value of true and serious play; yet TV is like a drug. Phones, tablets, social media and the like, distance us all. Discombobulate us. Send us into and isolated orbit. These days kids sometimes need a little help remembering how to play. Yoga and mindfulness feel comfortable for them, like coming home. It frees them to play and trust, to stay joyous and curious. Yoga is like a base line for life. As long as it is there in the background ... like breathing, kids will self-facilitate a naturally positive and equanimous path. There are so many reasons why kids need a little more yoga in our lives: 1. Learning to stay put in a s...

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It has been a big-swell year. Hold your compass steady, find your center quiet place and be like the little duck riding the ocean surf, without panic, without violence, steady in your deep center. THE LITTLE DUCK By Donald C. Babcock Now we are ready to look at something pretty special. It is a duck riding the ocean a hundred feet beyond the surf. No, it isn’t a gull. A gull always has a raucous touch about him. This is some sort of duck, and he cuddles in the swells. He isn’t cold, and he is thinking things over. There is a big heaving in the Atlantic, And he is part of it. He looks a bit like a mandarin, or the Lord Buddha meditating under the Bo tree. But he has hardly enough above the eyes to be a philosopher. He has poise, however, which is what philosophers must have. He can rest while the Atlantic heaves, because he rests in the Atlantic. Probably he doesn’t know how large the ocean is. And neither do you. But he realizes it. And what does he do, I ask you. He sits down in it. H...

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