Yoga Babe

I had the pleasure of photographing a children's yoga class as a partial trade for the little one's toddler/mama yoga classes. Now, the little one had her own idea of what was fun during those classes. It didn't so much involve yoga, but more licking the mirror and running around in circles. So when she had enough of that, we moved on and decided yoga would best suit her if it was in the form of gymnastics.

But what happens when you add big kids to a yoga class? Well, you get one toddler who is insanely interested in doing each and every yoga pose in an hour long class. You get a toddler who wants to sit on the meditation cushion and listen to a story. You get a toddler who drinks her tea while seated and staring intently at what the bigger kids are doing. And you get one mama who stares in bewilderment that mirrors aren't being licked and requests to jump from the tallest cushion aren't being heard.

So mama clicked away while the little one did downward dog, cat pose, and sat with her legs crossed looking completely blissful. She adored those big kids and she learned that she really adores yoga. And in the car on the way home, I kept looking back to to see her beaming and saying proudly, "Mama, I did yoga with real big kids!'

Yes, sweetie, you sure did. And you were really good at it too!