The Yoga Buggy aims to make yoga more accessible through the delivery of affordable and high-quality classes to as many kids & families as possible. We caught up with Miriam Leo Gindin (Current Director), Elizabeth Seminoff-Grenon (Future Director) and Amanda Drage (Human Resource Manager) to learn more about what they do. Miriam & Elizabeth ❤️ Describe your charity/non-profit/volunteer work in a few sentences. The Yoga Buggy seeks to democratize yoga by bringing high-quality, affordable classes to as many kids & families as possible. The tools of yoga are powerful methods of int ..read more

A child meditating. No grit, no pearl. - Lama Surya Das What a couple of years it has been! We have been through a sort of reckoning, each of us personally, and society as a whole. As I consider the qualities that have been helpful to me in this long, dark season, the two that stand out are adaptability and grit.   Adaptability means that in order to avoid needless suffering, I need to be flexible about what comes my way, and not be too sentimental or nostalgic about what was possible in the past. Yoga helps to develop adaptability by improving our ment ..read more

A group of young children in a group on yoga mats doing star pose. Interested in starting your own entrepreneurial journey in health and wellness but unsure what to expect? Then read up on our interview with Miriam Leo-Gindin, executive director of The Yoga Buggy, located in Vancouver, BC, Canada. What's your business, and who are your customers? We are The Yoga Buggy, a Vancouver-based non-profit that brings yoga and mindfulness healing power to kiddos and families. We seek to democratize yoga by bringing high-quality, affordable classes to a wider range of children than usually ha ..read more

Happy 2022, folks.  It’s hard to believe another year has come and gone.  And what a year it was: never mind, what a decade it’s been so far.  The 2020s have been a cold splash of water on the world’s face, forcing us to reckon with some of the bigger existential threats.  How to carry on in this long tense season?  How do we look after ourselves, and keep well enough to do the important work that the world needs us to focus on?   Pondering these questions made me think of our own Nikki Ying, who has spent the last several years studying the art and science ..read more

We are wired to help! Whether we know it consciously or not, humans love helping.   Our beloved yoga tradition has a culture of helping, embedded in the ancient spiritual practice of Karma Yoga. You know about karma, right? We have all heard of “good” or “bad” karma. Simply put, karma means action. Doing the wrong thing, the neutral thing, the right thing, or the next right thing, Anna from Frozen says. Karma Yoga is the yoga of action, often called the yoga of service.  The idea of karma can be useful for just about anyone. Our actions determine the reward or punishment either ..read more

The pandemic has been a notoriously hard knock on children’s mental health. Isolation, family stress, sickness, and loss have all been markers of the pandemic that have had a strain on kids beyond what is manageable. According to a resilience researcher, only one in five kids have received enough support dealing with pandemic stress. In my work as a children’s yoga teacher, I’ve seen this with my own eyes.  In the spring of 2021, I went to teach my first post-pandemic yoga class in about a year. The class coordinator had asked for yoga because the children had been identified as having hi ..read more

Hey Yoga Friends!  Looking for a healthy summer challenge for the kids PLUS a chance to win a $50 Gift Card for our shop?   Look no further! It’s easy: 1. Sign up for our E-blast.  (If you already have, skip to step 2!) 2. Download The Yoga Buggy’s 2021 Summer Goals.  They will arrive in your welcome email. 3.  Post pics of your Completed Goals with hashtag #ybsummer. Don’t forget to tag us @theyogabuggy! 4. Once you have completed all of the goals, let us know! We will enter you to win one of two $50 gift cards for our shop!    Questions?  or DM us ..read more

Written By Miri Gindin It was a lovely bit of serendipity when The Yoga Buggy found our Anoo.  Let me tell you about it.  Anoo’s kiddos and mine (Miri’s) were in the same after-school tennis lesson at a local community centre.  As parents do while watching our kids in gymnasiums on dark Canadian winter afternoons, we began to chat.   We were talking about parenting or philosophy, I think, and I remember the happy discovery that Anoo was willing to speak in greater depth than average about the topic.   We switched to talking about work, and I mentioned The Yoga Buggy ..read more

Written by Anoo Mammen More than ever before, this season of life has brought the duality of the physical world to light.  As COVID-19 numbers and variant cases increase, so does the number of people getting vaccinated against it. While the pandemic has taken away so much of what society needs to function, it has brought opportunities to individuals they never had before. More recently, spring has arrived, and with it, the cool fresh air, the glamorous cherry blossoms, the blooming bulbs on front lawns and some long-awaited sunshine. It has a positive effect on me - I feel renew ..read more

Written By Miri Gindin Friends, everybody knows this:  it can be hard to talk about our feelings.   And yet, research clearly shows how important it is to identify feelings and share them, rather than bottling them up.  In British Columbia where The Yoga Buggy works we have an annual week devoted to Mental Health awareness which features slogans like, Name it, Don’t Numb it and Get Real: Talk About How You Feel. But identifying and talking about our feelings is a skill, and skills need to be learned and practiced.  Identifying feelings is one of the original steps on t ..read more