We are a product of our environments.\u00a0 We are a product of our parents.\u00a0 Monkey see, monkey do.\u00a0 What are your little monkeys observing in the day to day?\u00a0 Posture is no little thing on the list of providing our children with happy, healthy, and safe lives.\u00a0 But, if we are constantly revolving around a sedentary life, how can we lead by example and show them how to move through this life with healthy posture?<\/p><\/span><\/p>\n Since the internet and cell phones became a household and even an individual norm things have shifted, quite literally.\u00a0 We sit too much, in cars, on the couch, at school and at work.\u00a0 We are sitters. For the sake of our children, we need to become movers and shakers again.\u00a0 For the sake of ourselves, we need to change this idea of \u201cback breaking\u201d work and do things with posture and muscular support that allows us to work hard without \u201cbreaking your back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Two quick steps in the right direction: \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 1 Sit more. Wait, what?! Let me explain: Not on a chair, not on a couch, not with a screen and not with a slouch.\u00a0 Dr. Suess rhymes aside, we need to squat.\u00a0 We need to squat and work the posterior chain that gets neglected.\u00a0 The backside of the body needs more attention and the spine needs that support. Six packs are pretty and all, but you know all the sayings: Don\u2019t judge a book by its cover. Beauty is only skin deep.\u00a0 Bark with no bite. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 2 Posture, posture, posture.\u00a0 This is where having a Yoga practice gives you an upper hand.\u00a0 Practice at home and practice in front of your kids.\u00a0 Their incredible human brain will process and digest what they are seeing.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always said it is no wonder every mother and father thinks that their child is a genius\u2026humans are amazing!\u00a0 Lead by example and show them correct posture.\u00a0 Telling them to sit up straight means very little if they have never seen it before.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>If the above is a rant about the asana of Yoga then below is my little rant about the awareness of Yoga. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>Processing information is hard, especially when you are learning rapidly, growing rapidly and experiencing heightened emotions that are relatively new.\u00a0 You might think I\u2019m talking about you at this point, but I\u2019m actually referring to children.\u00a0 When you stare at them in disbelief because they are reacting with such intensity, remember that it is all very real to them and they are experiencing those emotions inside no matter how irrational it seems to an adult.\u00a0 It is very overwhelming and takes age and time to process in a more socially acceptable manner.\u00a0 I know this from personal experience.\u00a0 I too was once a child.\u00a0 Seriously though,\u00a0 often times reflection can be the easiest path to compassion.\u00a0 You don\u2019t just get off the hook as an adult either, this is a life long battle of thinking before you act or even thinking about how you act.\u00a0 Yoga teaches us patience and that life itself is a practice.\u00a0 One more time:\u00a0 Life itself is a practice.\u00a0 Practice makes progress.\u00a0 Practice what you preach.\u00a0 Lead by example.\u00a0 Awareness.\u00a0 I guess I was talking about you after all.<\/span><\/p>\n By Holly Fiske<\/p><\/p>\n Join Holly and Omstars for her #upsidedowniscomingtotown Instagram Challenge starting December 3rd, follow her on instagram @upsidedownmama<\/a><\/strong> and check out her website www.upsidedownmama.com<\/a><\/strong> to learn more about Holly and her beautiful clothing line!<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are a product of our environments.\u00a0 We are a product of our parents.\u00a0 Monkey see, monkey do.\u00a0 What are your little monkeys observing in the day to day?\u00a0 Posture is no little thing on the list of providing our children with happy, healthy, and safe lives.\u00a0 But, if we are constantly revolving around a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[117,48,126,15,51,17,46,49,68,78,118,114,53,4,115,111,8,116,113,112,65,63],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-practice","tag-family","tag-handstands","tag-hollyfiske","tag-insight","tag-learning","tag-love","tag-meditation","tag-movement","tag-omstars","tag-omstarsblog","tag-parents","tag-patience","tag-peace","tag-practice","tag-stillness","tag-upsidedownmomma","tag-yoga","tag-yogaforfamily","tag-yogaforlife","tag-yogaforparenting","tag-yogalifestyle","tag-yogaphilosophy"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/omstars.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DSC_0564.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omstars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omstars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omstars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omstars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omstars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/omstars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5605,"href":"https:\/\/omstars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/5605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omstars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omstars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omstars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omstars.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}