A Growing Yogi LLC

Its been busy waaayyyyy over a year since my last post. Its been a WiLd year - birthdays & celebrations 🥳, a wrist injury with multiple Doctors and therapists 👩🏻‍⚕️👨🏼‍⚕️, a new baby niece/cousin 👶🏽, loss of a pet 😿, new family traditions😁, thoughts of moving but deciding not to 🏡, and soo much more! With all of the life things amd the Covid pandemic, I’ve been here, just not really here 🤷🏼‍♀️ So let’s have a fresh start….
Hi 👋🏼, I’m Danielle! I live in the suburbs of Chicagoland. I’ve been married to my best friend, Dustin, for almost 12 years now- although we’ve been together for about 22👩🏼‍❤️‍👨🏼! We have a 8 1/2 yr old son👦🏼, a crazy 🐶 , a cat🐱and a turtle🐢.

I found yoga 🧘🏼‍♀️ my freshman year of college (20 yrs ago 😳) . I had a load of basic classes that were required for a degree but challenged myself to try and new class each semester to broaden my experiences. After one week of yoga class I was in love and regularly enrolled until I graduated- hello amazingness and lots of easy A’s for the GPA😁!

I continued practicing off and on since college, but picked up a regular routine when I was pregnant in 2013. After my son was born I decided to invest in me and enrolled in a 200 YTT program. I’ve been happily teaching yoga, primarily to kids & families for 5 years now.

Here’s 5 things about me:
1️⃣I love to read!
📚Current books: Imperfectly Perfect, The Guncle, The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

2️⃣ I run daily on ☕️Coffee, Tea and Essential Oils (Young Living is my preferred brand).

3️⃣ I love plants🌱. Indoor, outdoor it doesn’t matter. Also All of my indoor plants have names and I talk to them. I use and love the app Planta to keep track of my watering/fertilizing and plant care maintenance.

4️⃣ I post daily pictures of my dog 🐶on his own personal IG page to share the ridiculous laughs and joy he brings to us. 🤪

5️⃣ On a fun note- My husband and I had a monkey as a ring bearer in our Wedding. 🐒

Thanks for being here! 🥰🙏🏼

Now, tell me about you in the comments 👇🏼
1️⃣ favorite yoga pose
2️⃣coffee? Tea? Other beverage of choice? 3️⃣book you are reading

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In a world where you can be anything, be kind.

Little Mouse is going on a new adventure! Cant wait to add thisto the collection! Check it out at the “virtual” book launch!

I'm really excited about the 'Virtual" Book Launch of the 2nd book in my Little Mouse Adventures series! Please share this with anyone you think might be interested in attending. Thanks so much!!

Meditation Monday

Today Lotus is sharing the 🌤 Mind-Sky Meditation 🌤

Get in a comfortable seated position, hands at your knees or lay on your back, hands at your side or resting on your tummy. Gently close your eyes, if that’s comfortable for you.

Imagine that your mind can be a perfect bright blue, sunny sky. When you get caught up in your thoughts that you don’t want to have or maybe that you don’t plan to have, these thoughts appear as clouds floating through your minds sky. During meditation, we simply want to just notice the clouds and watch them as they disappear into the distance leaving a clear blue sky behind.

Rub your palms quickly together to create heat between them. Keep rubbing until you feel your hands are hot. Then place your cupped palms over your closed eyes and feel the heat and energy from your hands spread into your eyes and into your body. Imagine the heat is from the sun shining in the bright blue sky and any clouds that up here I’m just gonna float away as you breathe. Be still and watch your mind sky.

You may repeat rubbing your palms together to place over the eyes if you desire.

🌤 Remember you can find your Mind-Sky anytime to help settle your mind. Moms and Dads can use this technique as well while working at their desks.