Stretch, Breathe, and Connect with your little Yogi. Perfect for newborns to walkers.
Just Like Om’s Little Yogis classes are lively and lighthearted, incorporating age-appropriate yoga poses, explanations of breathing techniques and concepts related to focus and concentration while keeping the overall class environment light and fun with the use of props, songs, yoga games and playful poses.
The body-mind-self virtues of yoga can play a meaningful role in shaping the lives of children of all ages. The classes teach kids to internalize concepts of self-awareness, compassion, balance, creativity, and healthiness on a physical and spiritual level.
Register your yogi-in-the-making in a class at Just Like Om, a yoga and wellness studio in Chelsea. Just Like Om's mission is to provide custom wellness solutions, small group classes, holistic wellness, health coaching, pre/postnatal fitness, baby & me classes, Thai yoga bodywork, and workshops to Manhattan families. Families will especially love the studio's kid-friendly offerings like My Little Yogi & Me (a class for kids ages walkers to four years old that incorporates yoga with props, songs, yoga games and playful poses) and Little Yogi's (a class that introduces kids to the traditional practice of yoga and how meaningful it can be in their lives). Just Like Om also offers health, birth and postpartum doula services, too, along with nutrition sessions to instill healthy eating.
Melissa, founder of Just Like Om, is a 200HR-RYT yoga instructor and Thai yoga practitioner, pomprehensive pilates instructor with 800+ hours of certification on all apparatus and specializes in injury recovery and prevention, pre and postnatal, special populations and myofascial release. She is also a certified personal trainer and nutrition coach through NAFC, an IIN certified holistic health coach, and a birth doula. She is currently finishing her training as a postpartum doula and childbirth educator.