| Staying home with our kids should feel rewarding and | | | | for handling your lion cubs...bring it on! |
| turn out as a cherished period of our lives, however | | | | As you alleviate tension through your yoga exercise |
| day-in-day-out of intensive caring can get the best out | | | | comfort eating becomes redundant in your new life. |
| of any loving parent. Exhaustion, loneliness, overwhelm, | | | | The Abdominal Lifts enable new mums to restore their |
| mood-swings and even depression are not uncommon | | | | organs and glands into their correct position to regain |
| surprise guests of stay-home mums or dads. With | | | | their shape. A growing number of famous actresses |
| your daily yoga exercise as an ally, you can turn this | | | | take pride in having rebuilt their pre-natal figure through |
| painful situation around to enter the most enriching | | | | yoga exercise. Yoga postures impart unprecedented |
| stepping stone in your life. As a bonus, your loved ones | | | | flexibility to your spine. You will come to feel yourself |
| will enormously benefit from it too. | | | | move with balance and poise as you execute your |
| House chores require manpower, yet when performed | | | | daily tasks around the house. You will develop your |
| as an automatic routine and experienced as burden | | | | unique beauty appeal and take grace in your parenting |
| they are unlikely to leave you refreshed, as would do | | | | activities. |
| a gym session of the same duration. House work can | | | | Are you concerned that you feel a loneliness 'panic |
| indeed be detrimental to your fitness, symptoms | | | | alarm' in your gut while in company of your lively child? |
| ranging from tension and back pain to frustration and | | | | As you engage in yoga exercise and meditation |
| irritability. Add small children to the equation and the | | | | practices, this intermittent feeling of loneliness will |
| continuous pressure can imprison the caretaker into | | | | dissolve to give way to a renewed sense of purpose |
| very unhappy living. As a homemaker, your priority is | | | | within an existence that makes infinitely more sense. |
| finding a plan to get yourself extra fit both physically | | | | The Alternate Nostril Breathing technique balances |
| and mentally. Yoga exercise provides tremendously | | | | activity of both your cerebral hemispheres to increase |
| powerful invigorating techniques for fitness and | | | | awareness and intuition. Your life-views will surpass |
| relaxation that are easy to fit into your hectic parenting | | | | your present horizons. Yoga's inverted postures as the |
| schedule and- doing yoga exercise together with your | | | | Head Stand stimulate your brain and pituitary glands to |
| kids proves an excellent bonding activity that sets | | | | increase your brain power. Your attitude will shift |
| foundations for a stable and positive life. | | | | towards increasing positivity, and with it the saying |
| Yoga postures and breathing techniques optimise your | | | | "...see the best in every situation..." will become second |
| energy levels, enhance detox processes, promote | | | | nature to you. Now you can add on value to chore |
| relaxation, and reduce levels of the stress hormone | | | | time by counting your blessings. |
| cortisol in your system. In between errands, you can | | | | As your self-confidence grows through your yoga |
| use a few minutes of yoga exercise to reward your | | | | exercise, you will know that you are doing your best to |
| body with revitalising stretches that will optimise your | | | | imprint stability on your kids' lives too. By taking yoga |
| metabolism and improve your circulatory, respiratory, | | | | time out for yourself you fill up your 'receiving tank', so |
| endocrine, digestive, urinary and reproductive (in case | | | | you are able to continue giving the best of yourself to |
| you are wanting another handful!) systems. You will | | | | your loved ones with no resentment showing up. Your |
| get toned up from head to toes so your chores will | | | | inner journey will bring more love, joy and contentment |
| get easier to handle, and you will have spare power | | | | to your family. |