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Nestful’s online Yoga membership offers open level/on demand virtual yoga classes for parents and caregivers. Nestful’s online yoga and mindfulness classes are accessible for those new to the practice and pregnant people.

The practices instilled in our children become the habits and patterns of our adults. Simply put, our children are our future. Our habits, patterns and belief systems are greatly developed in childhood. Unlearning is much harder than learning. Let’s teach our children what we wished we learned when we were young: how to be compassionate, self-aware, and socially & emotionally conscious human beings. Let’s provide our children with the opportunity to build upon healthy patterns. In order to do this most effectively, we the parents and caregivers need to have a personal practice to draw from and to model for our kids.

Yoga is a great way to tend to and care for your own inner child. Yoga gives us insight into our habits and patterns. Yoga offers us an opportunity to witness our relationship to ourselves as parents. Gentle parenting and conscious communication strategies are much more effective when we are compassionately aware of ourselves and our tendencies.

Communities are built from the ground up. The most effective way to cultivate a mindful community is to instill healthy habits at a young age. Children learn best by example, so it’s important for adults to embody mindfulness and model these life skills in action. By practicing yoga, we embody the qualities we wish to see in our children.

Your practice ripples out to those around you. We set up new healthy patterns in ourselves and subsequently in our communities. Healing does not exist in a vacuum. Your energy impacts your kids and everyone and everything around you. Self-care is never just about you.

A note from Lauren:

Caring for children is hard. There are a lot of great resources out there to help us parents and caregivers utilize conscious communication and brain science to help raise mindful, kind compassionate and strong kids.

But it's still hard! We might know exactly what to say to tame our child's tantrums, but our own triggers and habits can get in the way. (Happens to me all the time.) We might know that we "need" to take better care of ourselves but we lack the time and the resources.

If there's anything yoga and mindfulness practice has taught me, it's that two truths can exist at the same time. It's the divine paradox of being human. I can be tired and not want to go to bed. I can be burnt out and grateful. I can want to grow and love myself exactly the way I am.

Yoga taught me how to be self-aware. Mindfulness taught me how to be self-compassionate. It doesn't make me a perfect parent, or human, because that doesn't exist. It just makes me feel a little more joy and it makes me a little less hard on myself in the challenging moments. Yoga just makes life feel doable.

If you are looking for an accessible way to implement mindful yoga into your busy life as a parent or caregiver, check out Nestful's online platform. These mindful yoga classes are perfect for parents and caregivers because there are a variety of styles and class times, ranging from 15 minutes to 45 minutes. Some mindful yoga benefits include building self-compassion and decreasing stress and anxiety.

Yoga & Mindfulness practices give me the tools to be honest about how I wish to change and grow as a parent. The practices also give me the tools to view my parenting with kindness, compassion and forgiveness. Because of yoga and mindfulness, I know that self-compassion and accountability can coexist.