Introducing Charlotte, Certified Grounded Kid…and her yoga perspective
I introduce to you, Charlotte, Certified Grounded Kid. This is her fifth year in the Fernbank Elementary after-school yoga club and is one of my greatest teachers.
Yoga
My name is Charlotte Walker. I have been taking yoga since I was 5.
It’s always been fun but I didn’t realize how important it is to me, until this year.
Most girls around the age of 9 start to notice things getting complicated especially in friendship.
Even if it’s not happening specifically to you, you still see other girls getting teased or left out for the strangest reason.
But yoga is a place where people can be theirselves not worrying about what others think.
It’s also where you can simply relax and think of the positives.
Overall to me yoga is a place where I can go, even after a rough day, to just breathe.
Charlottes Bio:
Charlotte Walker is your average fourth grade girl. After school she does gymnastics, reading bowl, and of course yoga. Charlotte lives in Atlanta Georgia with her parents, her brother, her sister, her dogs, and her rabbits.
{editor note: Charlotte wrote this. We do not find her ‘average’ at all but admire her humility. 🙂 }
For many of us, a new year represents a blank slate, a Tabula Rasa. Imagine being able to “refresh” any or all areas of your life. Now visualize this table with two columns, Yes and No. You create your truest life by thoughtfully choosing what goes in the No column and what is a Yes. Everything you say YES to and everything you say NO to matters. What if your yes’s and no’s were tabulated and at the end of a day, week, year, lifetime, you could see how the data, otherwise known as your life, balanced out?
Have you ever felt not worthy? Maybe you lacked Self-love or maybe you didn’t surround yourself with goodness at the time. Who we surround ourselves with is who we become. If we surround ourselves with downers we begin to feel down. If we surround ourselves with happy, joyous, and delightful people we become more happy and joyful. If we were to eat junk food every single day we would begin to feel down and ucky. When we eat healthier we experience delight and Self-love. Honor Your Self! Surround yourself with goodness. “The first step toward awareness is being willing to look at yourself and your life without judgment or self-criticism.” (Iyanla Vanzant) Awareness opens the heart to new possibilities.
