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Searching through Instagram in the yoga community will bring you to thousands of beautiful photos with people in flawless down dogs, king pigeons and seemingly impossible inversions of all kinds. And amid all these brilliant photos, there comes across children. Babies, toddlers and kids ranging in so many ages, alongside their mom. Some whilst even in poses with them, sitting on their feet, balancing on their hands, or hanging on like a little baby monkey while their mom gracefully moves into headstand. We often refer to these types of moms as yoga moms. And I’m one of them. According to the urban dictionary, a yoga mom is, “A wealthy, always liberal mother who believes in organic foods and usually has...

I used to think that yoga was simply a series of basic stretches combined with a chorus of omm-ing in a seated position at the end of class. I often thought to myself, “why would anyone put themselves through such torturous boredom?”How wrong I was. Fast forward a few years on, now I can’t stop persuading people to try yoga because I believe it can change their life just as it has mine. Don’t get me wrong, I am far from being what many would consider being a “good” yogi – I still can’t do the splits, inversions still terrify me, and my downward dog probably still looks more like a downward panda. I fall out of poses more often than...