Many adults I spoke with at the Wanderlust Festival this summer in Stratton, Vermont were athletes growing up. When I asked them how their lives would have been different had they practiced yoga as children, they all agreed that they would likely have discovered their strengths as athletes and as individuals in a more gentle and less competitive way.
In today’s world of youth organized sports, much of the focus is on winning, moving fast and being the best. Many of these goals come from outside pressures of parents, coaches and society. Yoga dissolves the external pressures to perform at a fast pace, allowing participants to slow down and realize that they are perfect exactly where and how they are, in the moment.
In this, the third video in my series of blogs on the Wanderlust Festival focusing on kids in yoga, I interview some young ladies who share how yoga has allowed them to be more gentle with themselves and discover that life isn’t just about winning and succeeding, as commonly taught in organized youth sports.
