If you'd like to share yoga with your kids, the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm will be hosting their annual week-long Family Yoga Camp, July 10 through 17. It's a sweet, amazing opportunity to get serious quality time with your kids and your practice - and your kids' practice!

The schedule is set up to allow parents time for meditation, asana practice and pranayama, while the kids are doing their own practice or other fun activities. Everyone eats together, may go to classes, does a little karma yoga & has time to just be. Older teens could easily take the adult classes, as desired (I started when I was 14, oh so many years ago...), while pre-school to middle school age kids do kid activities. You can tent camp or stay in one of the Farm's cabins - it's a pretty darn cheap family vacation. Kids are half-price.

The camp is organized by Vidya Chaitanya, a long-time yogini who is the Director of the Sivananda Yoga Center in L.A. & was Asst. Director at the Yoga Farm for many years.

This will be our 3rd year going. It's a trip to see our now 11-year-old boy-boy son, who likes nothing better than nerf gunning his friends, playing on the computer, and being cheerfully rude, shift gears into ashram mode and get chill and even satvic. There's a pond on the property for swimming ('cause it gets warm!) and we always go to the Yuba River a couple times during the week. There's Satsang twice daily, you can sing kirtan with the kids, have delicious Ayurvedic food, hang out with other yogi parents, expose the kids to vedic philosopy and the young adult yogis who do activities with them (nice role models).

Like international travel, it gives kids a chance to see and experience another way of life, and to experience family life within an community. We load up the mini-van and drive all the way up from Ventura County - it's worth it. Come and join us!

More description and registration info is at: www.sivanandayogafarm.org