We now offer Itsy Bitsy Yoga!

Using the ItsyBitsy Yoga method developed by Helen Garabedian, this fun, interactive class is designed to help you bond with your child through toddler-friendly yoga poses, songs, stories and games. Come join Amy Soucy, miniMasters’ resident yoga teacher, and learn to playfully relieve stress and frustration, nurture your child’s self-esteem and creativity, and help them build a healthy lifestyle.  No previous yoga experience is required.

Printed in Downtown Express on September 5th, 2008.

Little girls in hot-pink and purple dresses and boys in pastel button-downs held bows as long and thin as their arms. Tiny violins, light as balsa wood, rested on their laps. Occasionally, a child fidgeted and the violin clattered to the ground.

On stage at Manhattan Children’s Theater in Tribeca, each young violinist took a turn standing by the piano, pressing the bow to the violin’s strings and making the beginnings of music before a crowd of video-camera-wielding parents. Most of the children were barely old enough to attend kindergarten. For many, the recital earlier this summer was their first public performance.

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