PreNatal Yoga Now in San Elijo Hills

Beginning January, I am excited to be offering PreNatal Yoga classes in San Elijo Hills on Tuesday nights at 6:00pm. This will be in addition to the City of San Marcos Community Center classes on a new night and time, see schedule below.

      ·         Tuesdays at 6 PM at San Elijo Recreation Center

      ·         Thursdays at 6:30 PM at Community Center

Pricing: PreNatal Yoga twice a week, through the City of San Marcos Parks and Recreation, comes with a discount! Classes are available in 5-week sessions for $55 per session – choice of Tuesday or Thursday session. Sign up for both nights for the discounted rate of $85*. That comes out to be $8.50 per class for 10 classes! Drop-ins are available for $12 a class (cash or check only).  

FREE Classes January 3 & 5: In addition to the extra class, the City of San Marcos Parks and Recreation is once again having a FREE preview week for its Enrichment Classes. These enrichment classes are for all ages, types and sizes. The PreNatal Yoga classes are as follows:

·         January 3 at 6:00pm at the San Elijo Recreation Center, 1105 Elfin Forest Road

·         January 5 at 6:30pm at the San Marcos Community Center, 1 Civic Center Drive

Registration: Register for classes at the City of San Marcos Parks and Recreation ActiveNet site. Click on “Activities” and select “Classes –Adult PE” under Activity Category.   

It has been a pleasure serving the San Marcos Community in this capacity, and it has been a great pleasure to guide local mothers through the special practice of prenatal yoga.

*Discount can only be obtained at the Community Center front desk.

My Daddy is a Pretzel - book recap

I purchased this book to read to my toddler yogis as a follow up to the yoga pretzel cards made by the same publisher. I like to read this book in yoga class when I have mostly preschool aged children (3-5 yrs). The pace and tempo of this book is much more in line with the 3-5 year olds rather than the younger toddlers. There are several sentences per page before the pose instruction, and requires a patient child who can sit for a bit between poses.

That being said, I love this book! I love having a yoga book that isn’t to babyish for the preschoolers. It is sweet how it uses parent occupations and then relates it to yoga. The book is written in the voice of a child whose father is a yogi. For instance, one parent is an oceanographer, but this child’s parent is a fish. The book, then, demonstrates step by step on how to do a fish pose. Brilliant!

This is a great book for teachers and is a great book for parents to read to their children. I love sharing this with my little one. The yoga pretzel cards (future post coming) compliment this book and as a teacher I use them both in class.