In this episode we take a deep dive into practicing yoga and mindfulness with infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. Margot has an extensive background in early childhood education that she brings to this conversation. We discuss the benefits of practicing yoga at the early stages of life. Such as, body awareness, learning to listen to our bodies signals, and learning to regulate our emotions and energy to just name a few. Margot also gives us great tips on how to both introduce these practrices and use them daily with our young children. We also chat about Margot's new children's book Cookie Doughga. Margot is a certified children's yoga and mindfulness teacher and author based on Long Island, NY with a background in early childhood education. She taught as a classroom teacher for over 10 years. In 2015 she left the classroom to become a full time yoga and mindfulness teacher. She’s honored to work with Yogi Beans, and Little Flower Yoga providing school based programming, and enrichment as a contractor. She mentors new children's yoga teachers, and leads professional development for educators and parents. Additionally, Margot teaches in several schools across Long Island and in parts of Brooklyn and Queens under her own budding brand: Calm Cookie Yoga and Mindfulness. She also teaches at a variety of wellness and play spaces for children and families, libraries, and with private clients. She serves children as young as 6 weeks, all the up through high school. Margot is certified through Little Flower Yoga, Yogi Beans, Trauma informed teaching from United We Om, and Baby yoga and development from Karma Kids Yoga. Margot's recently authored her first children's book, titled: Cookie Doughga: A Book about Yoga, Mindfulness, and Cookies! It's perfect for ages 3-8. It's her greatest hope that children from all over the world can use her story as a tool for body and mind connection, self reflection, and most of all---FUN! https://www.margotmharris.com/ https://www.instagram.com/calmcookie_kidsyoga/ Hoberman sphere Calm down Jar